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FORMER ‘EMMERDALE’ STAR
ADELE SILVA
SHARES HER BABY
EXCITEMENT AFTER YEARS
OF HEARTACHE
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Adele and fiancé Oliver Farber (together left), who met in a Starbucks in Leeds, have been a
couple for four years and got engaged last year on holiday in Rome. Oliver has supported Adele
through three miscarriages. “I don’t know what I’d have done without him,” she says
arm and cheery, former Emmerdale star
WAdele Silva is sporting a neat 22-week baby
bump and a healthy glow when she meets hello!
for our exclusive interview. But she confesses she’s
only just beginning to enjoy being pregnant.
This is the fourth pregnancy in as many years for
the actress, who played scarlet woman Kelly
Windsor in the long-running ITV soap – three
resulted in heartbreaking miscarriages.
“I remember being on holiday in Italy and seeing
babies and working out how old my baby would
have been,” she recalls sadly of those difficult days.
As a result, Adele, who turned 34 last week, has
been understandably cautious. So anxious was
she that, when offered the chance to return to
Emmerdale for the final scenes of her on-screen
sister Donna (played by Verity Rushworth) she
turned it down as the dates coincided with the
early weeks of her pregnancy, when she was
advised to take it easy.
“It sounds awful, but I wasn’t remotely excited
before my five-month scan,” says the mum-to-be. “I
didn’t want to think about it, just in case it was bad
news. Now I’m excited, but I always touch wood. I
know I’m extremely lucky to have got this far.”
Adele and her businessman fiancé Oliver
Farber kept the pregnancy news to themselves
until the scan, when they learned that they’re
expecting a little girl.
“It’s the furthest I’ve ever been with a
pregnancy,” says Adele, adding that the five-month
scan was the most emotional part of her pregnancy
journey so far. “It was like a huge weight had been
lifted off my shoulders.
“I never became bitter of anyone else being
pregnant though. After each one of my
miscarriages, I’d spend that day being upset, but
then I’d put it away in a little box somewhere in
my head, because I felt I needed to be strong for
my other half as well.”
STARTING OVER
After so much emotional turmoil, Adele and
Oliver decided to seek help earlier this year at the
Zita West fertility clinic in London, whose clients
have included Diana, Princess of Wales, the
Countess of Wessex, Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett
and Stella McCartney.
The couple were referred to Dr George
Ndukwe, a specialist in recurrent miscarriages,
and Adele underwent extensive tests.
“I had 16 vials of blood taken, because they check
for everything – they do tests that aren’t generally
available in this country,” she explains.
Adele was diagnosed with three conditions: a
form of thrombophilia, which means her blood
has an increased tendency to form clots; an
underactive thyroid; and killer cells which, in the
early weeks of pregnancy, regard the embryo as a
foreign body that should be expelled.
“It sounds bizarre but it was almost a relief
when I was diagnosed. At least I knew what had
been causing the miscarriages,” says Adele,
who reveals that her mother suffered eight
miscarriages and was also diagnosed with fibroids
before she had Adele.
Once her doctors had identified the
problems, Adele was given intralipid infusion
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