Lacey Turner on pregnancy loss, the importance of family, and 20 years on EastEnders
Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
We welcome soap royalty into the studio for this week's episode of Happy Mum Happy Baby...
Best known for her role as Stacey Slater in EastEnders, it is of course the iconic Lacey Turner!
Mum-of-three Lacey opens up to Gi about the importance of talking about pregnancy loss.
Plus we get the lowdown on the EastEnders 40th Anniversary live episode, and Lacey talks about filming scenes DAYS after giving birth.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby. |
| 0:03.7 | I was walking down the stairs with the pregnancy stick and I just turned it round and my mum went, oh. |
| 0:09.0 | And I was like, I haven't told Matt yet. |
| 0:10.4 | And my mum ran in the kitchen and went, Lacey's pregnant. |
| 0:14.5 | I like this. I'll take this. |
| 0:15.6 | I was going to tell him. |
| 0:18.6 | And Matt being Matt, Matt's so laid back. |
| 0:20.9 | He's like, Oh, great. |
| 0:23.9 | I became quite neurotic about the pregnancy |
| 0:27.3 | because I was so terrified of losing it. |
| 0:31.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.6 | And how I never wanted to go back to that place. |
| 0:36.7 | I never wanted to feel how I felt then. |
| 0:39.1 | So I text Richard after I had given birth. |
| 0:41.0 | I said, don't worry. |
| 0:41.9 | I'll be in next week just to film those last few scenes. |
| 0:44.7 | So I went in for a morning just to finish. |
| 0:47.3 | I mean, what was that like? |
| 0:49.7 | I mean, that was... |
| 0:50.6 | Having two under 17 months, you've given birth. |
| 0:54.0 | I know. But I'd had that lovely sleep because I'd like to take this moment to thank our friends at Wild Nutrition |
| 1:01.8 | who are offering happy mum, happy baby listeners 50% off for three months. Now, as mums, we have a lot |
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