Amanda Holden has spoken about her tragic loss while celebrating Mother's Day
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Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden posted a moving message to Instagram over the weekend as she and her daughters celebrated Mother's Day. Posting a picture of her with her two children she shared the family would "never forget" as they remembered baby Theo, who Amanda miscarried more than a decade ago.
Amanda is mum to two daughters, Alexa 19 and Hollie 12, who she shares with her husband Chris Hughes. In the snap, Amanda can be seen holding her daughters close and she kissed them on their foreheads.
She captioned the sweet picture: "Happy Mother's Day. I'm so lucky to have my girls. We never forget our son #theo. To all of you who have loved and lost or are on the path to having a family. ..My family send you a big hug xxx"
Amanda, who is 53, lost her baby Theo in 2011 when she was seven months pregnant with him. A routine scan revealed his heart had stopped. For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter.
The TV star and her husband Chris then made the devastating decision to have a caesarean following Theo's passing. Her Mother's Day post comes just weeks after she saw the 14th anniversary of her son's death.
In February, she took to Instagram and wrote: "Our beautiful boy would have been 14 today." In September 2022, Amanda revealed she was made to feel like a "game show contestant" when a doctor told her she was "going home empty handed" after her stillbirth.
The presenter worked with the baby loss charity Aching Arms and raised money for them as part of fundraising for her 3 Peaks Challenge. Speaking with Ross Sullivan, a user of Aching Arms, on her Heart Breakfast show, Amanda spoke of her "awful" experience and told of her hopes that the charity with help people to "avoid" the kind of language that was used with her.
She said: 'I will never forget when I went through something, that I would imagine is very similar to your [experience]. We lost our baby Theo at 28 weeks...
"I remember the lady afterwards as well when we went for a chat also said 'I know you're going home empty handed' is what she said to me. So I felt like some sort of game show contestant, so it's all of that language that I know this charity will be helping people to avoid and educate them on how best to deal with something so awful. It's just awful."
