Hollyoaks actress Kirsty-Leigh Porter loves being a mum and her three-year-old daughter Nala Rai lights up her life. But Kirsty-Leigh's road to motherhood was traumatic and her heart was broken in 2018 when she lost her first daughter Penny-Leigh, 29 weeks and three days into her pregnancy.
Dark days followed before she became a mum again. Holding baby Nala in her arms almost two years later was a huge healing moment.
Now Kirsty-Leigh would love to have “a truckload more children”. - but she’s too scared things will go wrong again to try for another baby. “When I was pregnant with Nala it was just literally trying to get through each day,” she says. “I didn’t relax and enjoy it as much as I probably should have because it’s a blur.
It was just trying to get through each day and just get her here safely. I could not go through the anxiety of being pregnant again,” she tells OK!. “It was a race to get Nala here safe rather than enjoying my pregnancy.
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