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Kelsey Parker has shared the sweet news that she’s pregnant with her ‘rainbow baby’, almost a year after losing her third child a week before his due date.
The influencer and author, who is the widow of The Wanted pop star Tom Parker, is a proud mum to daughter Aurelia, six, and son Bodhi, four.
Last year, she shared that she was expecting her first child with tree surgeon Will Lindsay, but devastatingly lost her baby, whom they named Phoenix, in June.
After their baby boy was stillborn, Kelsey wrote on Instagram that there was ‘no preparing for this kind of heartbreak’.
Now, in a heartwarming turn of events, she has shared that she is pregnant once more, announcing it with a video in which she, Will, and her young kids removed their hands one by one to unveil the scan image underneath.
Kelsey then places a white feather on top in a nod to her late partner, having previously revealed that a white feather fell from the sky when the singer died in a hospice.
‘A year ago next month, we lost our beautiful baby boy, Phoenix 🤍’, Kelsey’s caption read.
‘And somehow, through all the heartbreak, it feels like Tom and Phoenix have sent us another little gift from heaven our little rainbow baby ✨’
Thousands of likes and congratulatory comments quickly flooded in, with Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid writing: ‘Oh this is so amazing – all the love in the world ❤️ congratulations ❤️’
‘Congratulations beautiful it’s given me goose bumps xxxxxx’, said Georgia Harrison.
‘Omg, This is incredible news. Congrats you Guys!❤️’, wrote Parker’s bandmate Siva Kaneswaran.
Glad You Came hitmaker Parker was just 33 when he died, having been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an inoperable and aggressive brain tumour with a very poor survival prognosis, in October 2020.
In November 2021, he announced that, following his latest scan, his tumour was ‘stable’, however, Parker’s health then rapidly deteriorated.
He ultimately died from complications while receiving hospice care in London.
In the years since, Kelsey has been open about her grief journey and keeping her children’s dad’s memory alive, saying they speak about Parker ‘every day’.
Marking the four-year anniversary of his death in March, Kelsey took to social media with a tribute, penning that ‘words can’t even explain how much’ she misses him.
‘I wish we could have just one more day… To laugh, to sing, to gossip, to be together. To party together. To put the world to rights like we used to at ridiculous o’clock. To talk before bed… to be parents together,’ Kelsey wrote.
‘I wish you had more time with your babies… Time that was taken far too soon. You only got two and a half years of being a Dad, and life just feels so unfair.’
She described Aurelia as Parker’s ‘double’ in ‘so many ways’, despite only being two when her dad died, while she called Bodhi, who was born just five months before Parker’s death, ‘the most beautiful, kindest soul’.
Kelsey ended her tribute by noting that the late star is ‘up there looking after [her] baby boy’, Phoenix.