Lisa Faulkner has bravely spoken on how she felt in the weeks prior to adopting her daughter Billie. In 2008, the actress, 48, adopted Billie, now 14, with her first husband Chris Coghill.
Lisa has always been open about her fertility struggles after suffering from an ectopic pregnancy, that led to her having surgery to have one of her fallopian tubes removed.
The cooking whizz had three failed rounds of IVF before she and ex Chris decided to adopt. Writing for Pause, she penned: "I knew I still wanted to be a mother even more than ever.
We looked at every option under the sun including surrogacy and adoption abroad before we decided to adopt from the UK." Lisa added that she and Chris only had six weeks to prepare for Billie to move in
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