Kym Marsh says her grandson Teddy "feels like her own" child.
Kym Marsh
The 'Coronation Street' actress - whose 21-year-old daughter Emilie gave birth to her first son in May this year - has confessed that she feels "exactly the same" about her new grandchild than she did about her own children, Emilie, Polly, seven, and 23-year-old David.
Kym wrote in her exclusive OK! Magazine column: "I couldn't wait to see Teddy when I got back to Manchester. Emile sent me pictures of him while we were away; he's turning into a right chubber!
"He's teething at the moment bless him. I'm surprised how much I missed him while I've been away.
"Perhaps it's because he lives with me but I feel like I've had my own child - the love is exactly the same. It's an amazing feeling. "
Emilie and her partner Mikey Hoszowskyj gave Teddy the middle name Archie in honour of Kym and her ex-husband Jamie Lomas' baby son, who tragically died minutes after he was born 18 weeks premature in 2009.
And the 43-year-old actress - who had Emilie and David with ex-boyfriend Dave Cunliffe - was overwhelmed with emotion when they told her about the touching tribute.
Kym - who has Polly with Jamie - : "I didn't think they would, and nor should they have felt they had to.
"As far as I knew, he was going to be called Teddy David and I was chuffed with the name David being in there.
"When I found out his name, I burst into floods of tears."
And the former pop star admitted the touching tribute "means the world" to her.
She added: "But now Archie lives on in Teddy's name. Having a baby boy in the house with Archie's name as part of his means the world to me."
Emilie added: "Teddy's birth certificate means a lot to Mum too as Archie never had one, nor did he have a death certificate, so there are no official records of his existence."
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