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EastEnders' Lisa Faulkner 'felt like a failure' after being unable to conceive


Lisa Faulkner ‘felt like a failure’ as she struggled to get her head around fertility problems.

The TV presenter has opened up about the time in her life when she had to accepted she was unlikely to carry children.

In an interview with Hello! magazine , the 47-year-old said the lack of progress consumed her.

Lisa adopted daughter Belle, 12, over ten years ago but feels talking about her issues will help others in a similar situation.

The actress, engaged to celebrity chef John Torode, said: “Everyone around me seemed to be pregnant, and that made me feel such a failure.

“I lost sight of everything – my marriage, my friends, my family. All I could think was: “I want to grow a baby.”

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“I’ve got a book which comes out in June and it’s about how I had a right nightmare to have my daughter. I went through surrogates, every single way of having a baby before I adopted.

“And there were no books, and there were no people… the only two people I knew who had adopted a child were Angelina Jolie and Madonna, which was fine but there was no one who was like a normal person.

“So I thought I’d like to write a book that holds somebody’s hand even if they end up not adopting, but going through those trials of everyone suddenly having babies and it not being so easy for them.

“You know what I mean, it’s really difficult and it’s a lonely place and I wanted to write that book to say however you get your path to motherhood, whatever that path is, it’s meant to be. It’s my journey to adoption.”

Writing her book allowed her to get a lot off her mind.

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“There’s a lot of grief in it, there’s a lot of sadness – but there’s a lot of funny moments,” she added. “I think you go on a journey when you try to have children.

“Somebody told me that you go and see this man and this will work, so you try everything.

“You go and see someone else and you try absolutely everything and nothing’s working and all these well-meaning people are going “when you forget about it, when you just relax” – still, STILL, people say it today.

“I think, oh we’ve got a few more years until people won’t be saying it anymore. In the end, I got my girl and somebody said to me “a snowflake always lands in the right place” and I think that’s true – you always get what you’re meant to.”

The full interview is available in Hello! magazine, out today.





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