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Lydia Lucy has exclusively shared with OK! online that she is pregnant with a baby girl following a heartbreaking miscarriage in December.
The 28 year old, who reached the final of The Voice UK in 2016, is speaking out on her miscarriage for the first time and opening up on how she believes her expecting a girl is a sign from her late sister Lucy that "everything's going to be alright."
Speaking from her hospital bed, where she is currently laid up having suffered two blood clots and overcoming a kidney infection and suspected sepsis, Lydia admits she is still to tell her former mentor will.i.am – who she went on to tour with as part of the Black Eyed Peas – about her pregnancy she news.
She also heaps praise on her partner Tommy Watson, a 28 year old office manager, for being "an angel" during her pregnancy.
Congratulations on your pregnancy! How does it feel to be expecting a baby girl?
I am absolutely over the moon! I didn't mind if it was a boy or a girl. I really thought it was a boy but when I found out it was a girl it was like a gift from above. I didn't have any morning sickness, I didn't have any real pregnancy symptoms, I sort of just breezed through until the last couple of weeks, so I thought it must be a boy because they say that girls create more sickness – I'm making up for it now!
It's really happy news after such a sad time with you suffering a miscarriage in December…
I found out I was pregnant but I was waiting to tell my partner because I was away in panto so I was going to surprise him on Christmas Day. But all of a sudden I was bleeding and I really worried because it was my first pregnancy. I went to the hospital and they confirmed that I had, unfortunately, had a miscarriage. I was absolutely devastated. I don't think you can describe it, you feel like the only person that's going through it. But the more people that I spoke to about it made me so much more comforted. It is something that people should speak out about.
Was it hard to believe the good news after the tough time you had?
Me and my partner were very much in disbelief at first, we didn't really want to tell anybody. We went for a reassurance scan which was at about six or seven weeks and then we told our families but we still didn't want to get excited, which is a shame because it should be such an exciting time. When we went for the scan, it was very emotional, I couldn't stop crying even though it was just like a tiny grain of rice. You can't help but think, 'Oh my God, it's still there', because of what happened I had so many doubts in my mind. I think that's why I've kept it quite even up until now – I'm six and a half months. I've kept it really quiet because I've still just been so unsure.
When we went for the 12 week scan and we saw it was an actual forming baby, then we started feeling much more excited. Then we found out it was a girl and we were just over the moon, absolutely ecstatic.
What message do you have for others who are hoping to conceive their rainbow baby?
The only thing I can say is that it is very worrying but people put too much pressure on themselves. I actually wasn't trying because I was so heartbroken, I didn't feel that I could. I thought it was my fault, I was blaming myself, but my message to women out there would that it's not your fault, it's heartbreaking but you have to try not to get disheartened and try not to worry, that's the main thing.
You and your family believe that you having a baby girl is a sign from your late sister Lucy. What makes you think that?
I lost my sister and having a girl as a first child is, I think, quite special. So, for me, it just feels like it's a sign from her saying everything's going to be alright. We all just feel like it's a gift from above.
You say that you feel like Lucy has been with you all your life. Do you get signs from her?
Yes, always! I believe in all different signs and stuff. My mum was actually due to give birth to me on the day that she passed away, but my mum said she couldn't have her baby on the day that my other daughter passed away, so she was induced on 8 July but I came on the ninth and my sister died when she was nine. The number nine plays a big part in my life. I think that every time something happens and there's a number nine or nine of something, which happens very often to me, I think it's a sign from my sister.
Will you pay tribute to her with the baby's name?
I'm unsure at the moment. Me and my partner haven't discussed that yet, but I carry my sister's name with me, so I feel that with this child or even if I was to have another child in the future, who knows? I love the name Lucy, I think it's such a lovely name but I'm not sure about that at the moment.
Your pregnancy hasn't gone too smoothly and you are in hospital now after suffering a second blood clot and kidney infection. How are you feeling?
I'm currently laid up in hospital so I think that describes it to you. I've been in a world of pain, to be honest with you. I was in here a couple of weeks ago with my first blood clot, a water infection and a chest infection, but up until I had it plain sailing. I was treated for that but I came away and got a similar pain the other leg which they then said is another blood clot and the water infection has spread to my kidneys. They said it could be life threatening and the kidney infection could actually cause sepsis. I've been in here since Friday and, honestly, I thought I was going to die.
That must have been so scary…
It was so scary. But obviously, when you're pregnant you're carrying another human and I wasn't even worried about myself, I was more worried about the baby. Because of what has happened before, I was just absolutely panicking, you can't help what goes through your mind. When I had the first blood clot, I was sitting in A&E just crying my eyes out because I just thought about how the last time I was there I was losing my baby and it just brought it all back, it was horrendous.
Have the doctors reassured you that both you and the baby are going to be fine?
Yes, they have. I've had really, really good care. I'm just waiting on some more results to see if I can be allowed home with further medication. I'm hoping to have a nice and relaxing baby shower in September, so hopefully I'm not in hospital for that!
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How has Tommy supported you through it?
He's been so supportive. He's really been an angel. He's been doing my injections for me, I had to have injections at home and he's a bit of a needle-phobe but he took it on the chin and got on with it. He's just been as good as gold. So have my family, everybody's been so supportive.
Is he excited to be a dad?
He's so excited! In my head I thought he would really want a boy, and when we found out I thought he might have been a bit disappointed but I think he's more excited to be having a girl than he would be to be having a boy so I'm really happy. It's just such lovely news to be able to share with everyone now, we're at the point where we're just so excited now and hoping everything will run smoothly. Especially the labour, my God I'm so nervous!
How have you found going through pregnancy during Covid times?
It's been a bit crazy because, where I was pregnant last year as well, I was really being careful and cautious around everybody and washing hands, wearing a mask, doing this, doing that, but where it's sort of become the normal now, I'm just used to it and it doesn't feel strange to me. This is my first full-term pregnancy so I don't know any different, it just feels normal to me. I'm just continuing to be cautious around people.
It's been almost five years now since you reached the final of The Voice. How did that experience change your life?
It's been a whirlwind! For two years after I came off The Voice, I was touring with will.i.am and the Black Eyed Peas, making lots of music with them, also branching off and doing my own thing, but then we went into lockdown and it sort of shut everything down. It's such a shame because the music industry has really been hit hard, we haven't been able to do live performances because of mass gatherings and it's been really hard to take. I am lucky though because I have a studio at my house so I've been able to attend sessions and, fingers crossed, we can move forward and I can get back to it.
Are you still in touch with Will or anybody else from the show?
I do still speak to Will but he's such a busy man! He's got his fingers in so many pies so I haven't shared the news with him yet, so hopefully it'll be a nice surprise. He's like the Willy Wonka of music, he's just all over the place. When he's in the UK for The Voice we meet up and we'll do a session. I'm sure he'll be over the moon and I'll be getting a congratulations message from him.
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