Kym Marsh became a grandmother for the first time this year and the Coronation Street actress and says she feels “exactly the same” about her new grandchild that she did about her own three children.
Daughter Emile, 21, gave birth to her first son in May.
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Kym wrote in her exclusive OK! Magazine column: “I couldn’t wait to see Teddy when I got back to Manchester.
“Emille sent me pictures of him while we were away; he’s turning into a right chubber!
“He’s teething at the moment bless him. I’m surprised how much I’ve missed him while I’ve been away.
“Perhaps it’s because he lives with me but I feel like I’ve had my own child – the love is exactly the same. It’s an amazing feeling.”
Emillie and her partner Mikey Hoszowskyj gave Teddy the middle name Archie in honour of Kym and her ex-husband Jamie Lomas’ baby son, who tragically died minutes after he was born 18 weeks premature in 2009.
The 43-year-old actress – who had Emilie and son David,23, with ex-boyfriend Dave Cunliffe – was overwhelmed with emotion when they told her about the touching tribute.
Kym – who has Polly, seven, with Jamie – said: “I didn’t think they would, and nor should they have felt like they had to.
“As far as I knew, he was going to be called Teddy David and I was chuffed with the name David being in there.
“When I found out his name, I burst into floods of tears.”
And the former pop star admitted the touching tribute “means the world” to her.
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She added: “But now Archie lives on in Teddy’s name. Having a baby boy in the house with Archie’s name as part of his means the world to me.”
Emilie added: “Teddy’s birth certificate means a lot to Mum too as Archie never had one, nor did he have a death certificate, so there are no official records of his existence.”
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