Strictly Come Dancing star Kym Marsh has sent a moving message to her baby boy Archie. The former Coronation Street spoke out to mark Baby Loss Awareness Day in memory of her beloved son.
Kym went through the devastating loss of baby Archie, with her ex husband Jamie Lomas, in 2009 at 21 weeks of pregnancy. The actress won huge praise for the harrowing Corrie storyline in 2017 which saw her character Michelle Connor go through the devastating loss of her baby Ruairi at 23 weeks after suffering a similar heartbreak in real life.
Taking to Instagram Kym, 46, said her family would be lighting a candle tonight for all babies 'taken too soon.' She penned: "Today is babyloss awareness day. Today is a day to get people talking, and to remember all of our babies that were taken too soon. I am a mother who lost her child. I am one in 4.
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"We are a family who lost a piece of us. I know that pain and I also know how important it is to talk, to listen, to share. Tonight at 7pm we will light a candle for all of those precious babies who were taken too soon. They will never be forgotten and in their names we will continue to make change."
And she added in a heartfelt message to her son: "Archie, I promise to always do you proud. In our hearts and our voices your name and memory will live on. We love you always and forever."
The Morning Live presenter, who is partnered with pro dancer Graziano Di Prima on Strictly Come Dancing 2022, has two daughters Emilie, 25, and Polly, 11 and a son David, 27. Kym, who played Michelle in the soap from 2006 to 2019, previously told how she feared she might also lose Polly after the tragic loss of Archie.
Emilie was the only child who she carried to full term pregnancy after eldest child David, who was born six weeks early. She previously told how, a year after Archie died, she felt 'brave enough' to try for another baby and was placed under the care of St Mary’s, Manchester’s specialist centre for obstetrics and neonatal care when she became pregnant with Polly.
Kym says she was 'absolutely terrified' to discover she had a condition that meant there was a strong possibility that she could go into premature labour again. She went on to give birth to her “little fighter and miracle” Polly in March 2011 following 33 weeks of pregnancy, weighing 4lbs 1oz.
Kym is also a grandmother of three. Emilie has a three-year-old son Teddy with her partner Mikey Hoszowskyj, who they welcomed in May 2019. And in August Kym announced David and his fiancée Courtney had welcomed a baby boy, named Clayton Lenny David Cunliffe.
She is also a doting grandmother to Mikey's daughter, also named Polly. In March she proudly shared a picture to mark the little girl's sixth birthday and said: "Happy 6th birthday to our beautiful granddaughter Polly. What a little ray of sunshine you really are! Funny and sassy, sweet and kind and the best big sister to Teddy!"
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