Lacey Turner didn't think she'd get pregnant again after suffering two miscarriages.
Lacey Turner
The 'EastEnders' actress - who is expecting her first child with her husband Matt Kay - has opened up about the fears she had after losing two babies seven weeks into both pregnancies, and how she was worried she wasn't going to be able to start a family.
Speaking candidly on ITV's 'This Morning' on Wednesday (13.03.19), she said: "We were really nervous, but you have to say to yourself, 'Right, we really want this, let's try again'.
"We tried and tried, and we were just getting nowhere, and 18 months had gone by, still nothing. You get to the point where you think, I don't know if this is going to happen to us."
After taking monthly pregnancy tests, the couple - who got married in 2017 - found out they are expecting their first child in November last year.
Confirming the news last month - when she said she was due in mid-July - Lacey, 30, said: "I can't wait to nurture our baby - we've dreamed of having a family for so long. When you've lost babies all you care about is the heartbeat - we've had about 12 scans."
The star - who is best known for her role as Stacey Fowler in BBC soap 'EastEnders' - previously admitted she felt as though her "whole world had fallen to pieces" when she lost her babies.
She added: "I blamed myself thinking that I'd done something wrong. I'd think, 'Why me? What did I do?' But, of course, I hadn't done anything wrong - it's all down to chromosomes and luck, really.
"Speaking to other people about it helped me. Women shouldn't feel ashamed to talk about it as it happens to so many women."
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