Kym Marsh has paid an emotional tribute to her late son Archie.
The 48-year-old actress has taken to social media to recollect her child boy, who was stillborn at simply 21 weeks following a untimely delivery in February 2009.
Kym – who has David, 29, and Emilie, 28, with Dave Cunliffe, in addition to Polly, 13, with Jamie Lomas – wrote on Instagram: “16 years with out you. It seems like yesterday we mentioned goodbye. Yearly I attempt to write one thing new. However the reality is that there’s nothing new to say.
“I nonetheless miss you each day, that may by no means change. I nonetheless damage and really feel ache the identical as all the time. I nonetheless would give something to have you ever right here with us to rejoice your birthday.
“To see you smile whenever you opened your presents, to listen to you chortle on the foolish issues folks would write in your playing cards, to see Polly annoying her large brother and the 2 of you doing the foolish bickering that siblings do, to provide me a hug and inform me you like me, however that I wanted to let go now cos I’m embarrassing you haha (sic)”
Kym – who misplaced her dad, David, to most cancers in January 2024 – additionally promised to proceed to “honour” her late son.
She mentioned: “All of us miss you a lot, there’ll all the time be my one lacking, however I take nice consolation in realizing that grandad is up there with you now. He’s hugging you for me, for us. He is making you chortle together with his foolish jokes and he is displaying you ways a lot you are liked each day.
“I ponder what you’d appear like now? Should you’re something like your siblings then you definately’re a magnificence. They miss you Arch. They actually do. All of us do.
“We are going to honour you right now kiddo and rejoice the fantastic younger man that you’d most actually be. Pleased birthday son. Love you all the time and endlessly. Mum [heart emoji] (sic)”