ITV star Emma Kenny, 52, has welcomed her fourth child.
The TV psychologist and podcaster who has appeared on This Morning, revealed the exciting news in an emotional Instagram post on Tuesday, explaining how her daughter’s birth comes just weeks after she sadly lost her mother.
Emma welcomed a daughter Etta-Blue in 2023 following ten years of struggling to conceive with her husband Pete Skywalker. She is also mum to sons Tyde, 22, and Evan, 20, from a former marriage.
Posting photos taken after the birth Emma gushed: ‘Say hi Ella-Grey. And then there were six!’
‘This morning she entered the world with a very loud cry. The Royal Bolton hospital have been fantastic and ensured that we have both been looked after brilliantly.’
Emma told her followers that she has been grieving her mother following her sudden death last month.
‘I lost my mum suddenly a couple of weeks back, and it’s really strange knowing that neither of my babies will get to know their grandparents…..they would have loved them as my boys did before them,’ she wrote.
The TV star lost her father in 2019 when he took his own life, after which she thought ‘I would never be happy again.’
But she explained ‘in truth I couldn’t have been more wrong, I’ve learnt we are more than simply built to withstand suffering, we are programmed to learn, and grow, and develop courage through it.
‘I cannot change what happened but I can embrace the gifts that grief brought me.’
She added that her newborn ‘has been lying on me all day, she latched on immediately and is as wonderful as I imagined she would be…..but like her sister…..I am blindsided that she is a girl.’
‘So, now I have two very big boys of 20 and 22, and two tiny girls aged one day and 23 months.’
Emma kept her pregnancy secret for nine months, only revealing she was expecting again in a post revealing why she was taking a break from her true crime live shows.
Discussing her pregnancy in a Facebook post at the end of May, she wrote: ‘They say you’ll know when you’re done with having children! I always wanted 4 and in a few weeks that will no longer be a fantasy.
‘I have no idea if it’s a boy, or a girl, you don’t get too many surprises these days…..but I KNOW it’s my last pregnancy and my picture is completed.’
‘All my children have been the result of medical intervention, I know so many of you reading this will have had your fertility struggles or are going through them, I know the disappointment, the fear, the utter frustration of all those failed pregnancy tests, the squinting and holding them up to the light desperately trying to see a second line ……I’ve driven myself mad doing this! And I also know the financial burden of IVF and how out of reach it is for millions of women!
‘Infertility is such a lonely, expensive, and at times devastating process……so, as I crawl through these last five weeks living on antacids I just wanted to thank all of you for changing my life and making the impossible finally possible.’
Emma has been open about her feelings about being an older mother, admitting before the birth of her eldest daughter two years ago that she felt selfish having a child at the age of 50 because it ‘stole years away’ from their relationship.
While Emma cherishes parenthood, she admitted at the time that giving birth later in life will inevitably compromise the time she has with Etta as she grows into adulthood.
She told New magazine: ‘I felt a great deal of selfishness all the way up until giving birth. There are moments when I think, ‘I wish I could have another 20 years with Etta.’
‘I could beat myself up about it, but my best friend died at 43, so you don’t always get the time that’s promised to you.’
Emma kept her pregnancy with her eldest daughter a secret after suffering years of fertility heartache, during which she turned to IVF – a fruitless experience she describes as ‘drawn out, protractive, difficult and expensive.’
‘I’ve had lots of miscarriages,’ she said in 2023. ‘The only people who knew [of the pregnancy] were my family and two friends. I didn’t tell anyone because I thought if I said it, I wouldn’t get my baby home.’
Emma trained to become a psychologist after discovering her first husband had cheated on her with her best friend.
She said she hit rock bottom after the split until she picked herself back up for the sake of her sons.
She founded her own health and fitness website makeyourswitch.co.uk and then retrained as a psychologist.
She is now a TV true crime presenter and has her own YouTube channel called Emma Kenny True Crime.
Emma previously denied reports she’s no longer appearing on This Morning, after posting tweets vowing to ignore COVID-19 restrictions.
