TV host Lorraine Kelly has shared her deep regret about not having more children.
The 64-year-old, who is mum to 29-year-old Rosie with husband Steve, revealed they tried for another baby but sadly suffered a miscarriage in 2000. On the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast last year, Lorraine confessed: “I failed!
“I think we just sort of ran out of time, and that was the thing I think I failed.” She admitted they could have considered IVF or surrogacy, but she thought it would naturally happen.
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Despite this, Lorraine spoke warmly about her daughter, calling her an “amazing girl”. She said: “I have got an amazing girl but there are times when I wish we’d been able to have another one.
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“How lucky am I to have an amazing daughter that still likes me? [It’s] lovely, but I would have loved to have had more kids – boys, girls, whatever, I don’t care!”
During an episode of her ITV show, Lorraine revealed that she still thinks about the baby she lost. On the topic of her past miscarriage, Lorraine shared on her show in 2021: “It’s still there, because you still think that baby would’ve been 21… You’re sort of mourning for something that didn’t happen and that’s very sad to do.”
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She also admitted that well-meaning attempts by others to comfort her often ended up making her feel “worse”. Lorraine went on to say: “I think that people were trying to reassure me, and they were saying, ‘Oh, this is very common and this happens to one in three women’. And actually, it made me feel worse.”
She declared: “This shouldn’t be happening to so many women and people don’t talk about it enough.” Looking back to when she suffered her own loss, she remembered: “Back when it happened to me it was people sending cards and I found that a real comfort.”
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On how love blossomed with hubby Steve Smith, a former cameraman whom she met at TV-am where she worked as a reporter, Lorraine reminisced. She told Woman and Home: “It all happened rather quickly when we had to do a shoot on location at Glencoe.
“We were staying in a tiny hotel in the middle of nowhere and I got him incredibly drunk on tequila before making my move. The way I remember it is that I leapt on him like a ninja and he had absolutely no defence!”
The pair married at Mains Castle in Dundee in 1992, a day she describes as a “small, traditional” affair, complete with a Princess Diana-inspired “bouffant” wedding dress.
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