KELLIE Bright took time off from EastEnders to have the IVF that helped her get pregnant with her third child. The 44-year-old Linda Carter actress kept the news of what she was going through under wraps - but did tell her bosses at the soap.
The star having a third child with husband Paul Stocker after what she called a "rollercoaster" IVF journey The nature of IVF - where an egg is removed from the woman and fertilised with sperm in a lab - meant she could have been called on to pull out of filming to go to a clinic.
She explained that the treatment began in September but the first two embryos didn't work. Kellie told OK!: "I actually told my bosses at EastEnders straight away that we were going for it.
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