Brian Mcfadden and Fiancee Danielle Reveal Their Ivf Heartache ‘We’Ve Lost Our Baby, But
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ISSUE 1249 ● 11 AUGUST 2020 ● £2.40 WEEKLY EXCLUSIVE BRIAN MCFADDEN AND FIANCEE DANIELLE REVEAL THEIR IVF HEARTACHE ‘WE’VE LOST OUR BABY, BUT WE HAVEN’T t Export £2.60/€4.90 t Esp/Por €3.30 t Italy €4.80 t Auz $8.40 inc GST t CDN $7.99 t ROI €3.35 t NL €4.75 LOST HOPE’ t FR €3.80 t Aus €6.10 t Malta €4.25 t Ger €5.30 AMBER DAVIES ‘DOLLY PARTON ADVISED ME TO FORGET MEN!’ AT HOME EXCLUSIVE MEGHAN’S PAUL MESCAL BIRTHDAY SURPRISE ON BEING A SEX SYMBOL AFTER BOOK BOMBSHELL ISSUE AUGUST CONTENTS THISWEEK’SCOVERSTARS NEWSAND INTERVIEWS BRIANMCFADDEN ANDDANIELLE PARKINSON THEROYALS JOHNNYDEPP KYMMARSH CELEBSIN QUARANTINE AMBERDAVIES PAULMESCAL EMILYANDRE BRIT CROWD BEANIEFELDSTEIN CHARLOTTE DAWSON LOVE MATTERS ASHLEYBANJO FORTHELOVE OFDOGS MIRIAM MARGOLYES FASHIONISTA or many, thehj journey If those h bombshell royal bookbook revelationsrevellations to parenthood can be are true, it sounds like Meghan and Kate SUMMER heartbreaking. Success is could have done with a bit more sharing DREAMING not guaranteed and there of experiences! STYLE EDIT Fare thousands of couples who go According to the authors of Finding OK! LOVES through the emotional trauma of Freedom, the two duchesses never moved FASHION SPY IVF and sadly still find themselves beyond “distant politeness”. BEAUTY EDIT without a baby at the end. Sisters-in-law can be a tricky relationship. BEAUTY BUZZ Former Westlife star Brian McFadden and The thing is they are often forced together his fiancée Danielle Parkinson know all too well by marriage rather than two women seeking what that is like. They are about to embark on friendship themselves. I have two sisters-in-law LIFESTYLE their third round of IVF, having already suffered and I’m very lucky I get on well with both of a miscarriage and one failed round of treatment. them. I’m even going on holiday with one ANDCHAT Their positivity about the future, and their hope of them next week. OK! ICONS that talking openly about their struggles will We’re very similar. OK! REVIEWS help others, is admirable. (I struggled to conceive We like the same things OK! HEALTH and I refused to talk to virtually anyone about it (mainly shopping and OK! RECIPES because I was so upset and embarrassed.) a glass of wine!) and OK! TRAVEL Speaking out and sharing experiences does we both love taking CHARLOTTE SELIGMAN OK! HOTSPOT so much good and we wish Brian and Dani only the mickey out of OK! EDITOR OK! STARS PHOTOS: ALEX CRAIG, CAMERA PRESS/IONA WOLFF/BAFTA, RICH FURY/CONTOUR, GETTY, CATHERINE HACK, OK!/DAVID LONGSTAFFE HACK, OK!/DAVID CATHERINE GETTY, RICH FURY/CONTOUR, PHOTOS: ALEX CRAIG, CAMERA PRESS/IONA WOLFF/BAFTA, the best for the next stage of their journey. my brother! charloe_seligman OK! VINTAGE VISITOURWEBSITEWWWOKCOUK /OKMAGAZINEUK @OK_MAGAZINE @OK_MAG WWW.OK.CO.UK 3 IVFJOURNEY ‘IFWEWANTTO GETPREGNANT WEHAVETOBE POSITIVE’ DESPITETHEHEARTACHEOFMISCARRIAGE ANDAFAILEDIVFATTEMPTBRIANMCFADDEN ANDDANIELLEPARKINSONTELLOK!’S MICHELLEGARNETTWHYTHEYSTILLFEEL HOPEFULFORTHEFUTURE 4 DANIELLE WEARS DRESS BY NEVER FULLY DRESSED; SHOES BY ZARA. BRIAN WEARS TOP AND TOPMAN; JEANS ASOS DANIELLE WEARS DRESS BY NEVER FULLY WWW.OK.CO.UK 5 ‘BRIANIS THEFIRST PERSONTO LOVEME FORME’ DANIELLE WEARS DRESS BY ZARA. BRIAN TOP REISS; TROUSERS ZARA; SHOES TOPMAN 6 rian McFadden and his fiancée Danielle Parkinson “But it’s not the end of the world if we don’t get pregnant. look the picture of health and happiness when OK! We always said we’d try every option.” joins them for a socially distanced spa day at The For Danielle, who’s 39 next month, the IVF process has Belfry Hotel & Resort near their home in Rochdale. been “invasive”, but she explains in her upbeat manner, BSeeing the besotted pair, you’d neverver guess thatthat “I“I’m’m a gegett on wwith it kind of person.” behind the scenes they’ve been experiencingriencing Brian, 4400 – who’s celebrating the success an emotional journey in their quest too start a of his StStrings Attached album with Boyzlife family together. ccollaboratorollab Keith Duffy – is already a The couple, who met four years fafatherth to daughters Molly, 18, and Lilly, ago and got engaged just before 1717, with first wife Kerry Katona. He Christmas, had already told OK! wwas also married to Vogue Williams, about their plans to have a baby. wwho’s just had her second child with But it’s only now that they feel ready husband Spencer Matthews. to share the heartache they’ve Through his passion for golfing, experienced along the way. a hobby Danielle has now taken up, Having begun their first cycle BBrian’s become good friends with of IVF over 12 months ago, they MikeM Tindall, the husband of Her were devastated when Danielle had MajestyM the Queen’s granddaughter a miscarriage late last year while Briann The pair Zara.Zar The royal pair have spoken was out of the country. A subsequent with Molly candidlycand about Zara’s miscarriages, with attempt also failed. Despite this, they’re’re still and Lilly Mike bbeing praised for raising awareness full of hope and positivity as they preparepare to aaboutbout the effects on fathers-to-be. try again using one of the two eggs thathat currently ““ThereThere are sos many people having medical remain on ice. interventions to try and get pregnant,” says Danielle. “We’ve got so much love, we want to share that love “Brian and I want to share our experience to help others with someone else,” Brian tells OK!, adding pragmatically, feel less alone.” WWW.OK.CO.UK 7 8 Here, the couple recall the Then I started bleeding and TOPMAN highs and lows of their IVF the symptoms disappeared. journey so far and how the past I took a pregnancy test and it 12 months have made them was negative. A blood test closer than ever… in hospital confirmed I’d lost the baby. Tell us about how your IVF journey began… Was Brian with you, Danielle? Danielle: We started trying for No, Brian was in Dubai so I had a baby after a year together. to tell him over the phone. It We love each other to bits so was horrible being apart when we thought, “Let’s go for it!” we found out. I flew straight to Two years later nothing had Dubai and we both cried when happened so my GP referred us we saw each other. both for tests. We’re over a year Brian: Dani hadn’t had a scan into the IVF process now. at that point and in my head Brian: We’ve always known I didn’t believe the baby was we want a baby together, so it gone. The previous evening, was a case of whatever it takes. I met a top gynaecologist at a We’d tried using ovulation tests charity dinner and she told me and having a schedule, but that to bring Dani straight to her didn’t work. when she arrived in Dubai. She did a proper scan and Did the hospital discover what she said, “There’s no baby the issue is? in there.” That’s when it hit Danielle: My levels of AMH me. It was the worst sinking [anti-müllerian hormone] were feeling ever. quite low. Even though I was Danielle: It was awful. She producing eggs, there were showed us that my womb was very few of them. empty. I was in tears – I felt numb. Brian was upset too, but You’re due to have your third he was really strong for me. egg transfer. What happened the first two times? Brian, did you hold in your Brian: Dani got pregnant on our emotions to support Danielle? first try but we lost the baby. We Yes. You have to do that. were devastated. We never let each other see Danielle: I was about five weakness. Even if we have a weeks in. I felt pregnant. I had a little cry on our own, together backache and some tiredness. we try to be strong. DANIELLE WEARS DRESS BY TOPSHOP; SHOES BY OFFICE. BRIAN WEARS T-SHIRT BY RIVER ISLAND; JACKET ZARA; JEANS ASOS; SHOES DANIELLE WEARS DRESS BY TOPSHOP; SHOES OFFICE. BRIAN T-SHIRT WWW.OK.CO.UK 9 ‘IKNOWTHEMISCARRIAGE WASN’TMYFAULTITJUST WASN’TMEANTTOBE’ Had you started to imagine how the hospital to tell them, which was your life might have changed? quite upsetting. But the remaining Brian: We were making plans two eggs are really strong which and picking baby names. I even has given us more hope. avoided taking gigs abroad around the due date. As far as we were How many eggs will you have concerned, we were out of danger. transferred this month? Danielle: We were over the moon, Danielle: Just the one. If we’re not discussing whether it might be a successful, at some point in the boy or a girl. Both of our mums future we might have two eggs had cried when we told them I put back in. was pregnant so it was even worse Brian: I’d love to have twins but telling them we’d lost the baby. there’s a higher risk of problems Having to tell Molly and Lilly was for the mum and babies. so hard, too. Brian: That broke us a bit. Have you talked about how long Danielle: We wanted to shut you’ll keep trying for? ourselves away. Even now, Danielle: No, but I think we’ll get anything can trigger you going to a stage where we’ll feel we’ve back to that moment and then tried for long enough.