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Why I buried my own baby: Kim Woodburn's heartbreaking story

Kim Woodburn has died aged 83 - (PA Archive)

TV cleaning diva Kim Woodburn revealed how, as a young woman in the 60s, she gave birth to a premature stillborn baby — and then tearfully buried him herself in a park.

The star of Channel 4's How Clean Is Your House?, who has died after a short illness, said in her autobiography 40 years after the trauma that her "deep sadness" at the loss had not disappeared, and she would still talk to her son.

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