Daily Express Tuesday, July 30, 2019 3DX1STBy Mark JefferiesBy Mark JefferiesPictures: OK!/TONY WARDRight, Lacey with Dusty. Above,
OK Magazine. Below, with MattHow baby Dusty
is our ‘miracle’
by EastEnders
favourite Lacey
EASTENDERS star Lacey Turner
has introduced her “miracle” baby
Dusty to the world.
She suffered two miscarriages at
seven weeks in the past two years,
and the actress and husband Matt
Kay feel “lucky” to have Dusty
Violet Kay in their lives.
While posing for photos, Lacey
told OK! Magazine that the tot’s
name “wasn’t on our original list
but we did an internet search for
‘pretty girls’ names’ and we both
said it at the same time.
“Dusty’s our little miracle – we
call her Special K.
“You hear so many horror sto-
ries about labour but I feel lucky
to be able to say I had a really
lovely time.”
The 31-year-old actress’s first
miscarriage happened after she
wed Matt in Ibiza in 2017, and the
second in April 2018.
Lacey, who plays Stacey Fowler,
in the BBC One soap, and her hus-
band underwent tests to deter-
mine medical issues.
Matt said: “I think every-
thing happens for a reason
and it does make Dusty being
here more special – we’re so
lucky to have her in our
lives.”
The actress went into
labour on July 12, five days
before her due date, and
had a “lovely” water birth
at Watford General
Hospital. But the couple
didn’t know they were hav-
ing a baby girl.
Matt said: “When she
first came out they
handed me the baby and
asked me to reveal thegender. For a second, I
thought it was a boy, as I
saw the umbilical cord. I
thought, go on son. I then
cut the umbilical cord, which
was surreal.”
Lacey said she would not
have minded either way “but I
always thought it was a girl.Also, it’s easier to dress her in
the colours I like!”
Staff took special care of the
actress because of her medical
history and she had 12 scans
while pregnant.
She said: “We did have more,
as I found it reassuring after los-
ing two babies, but once I felther kicking I didn’t panic as
much and didn’t go as much.”
After the birth their first child
weighed in at a healthy 6lb 7oz.
Lacey and Matt have been
together since they were both
aged 15.
●The full interview is in OK!
Magazine, out now.Country living... Sir Michael Caine
Wartime childhood made me, says Caine
SIR Michael Caine says the Second
World War was “one of the best
things that happened” to him and
set him on the road to a healthy life.
Hollywood star Sir Michael, 86,
who spent four years on a farm
after being evacuated from his
south London home as a child, said
the organic food and lack of sugary
snacks made him healthy.
The Italian Job actor told an
interview: “I went with my mother
and my brother. By this time I was
seven and he was four and we went
to a big farmhouse in Norfolk. That
was a wonderful period.
“I lived and worked on the farm.Actually, when you think in terms
of the Second World War, from my
point of view it was one of the best
things that happened to me.
“For six years, you could only get
organic food. I grew up completely
on organic food and never any
chemicals.
“You couldn’t get sugar, sweet
chocolate and all this, and cakes.
Sugar had to be brought from
Jamaica somewhere and with
U-boats, very few merchant ships
got through. At Christmas, every
child in England got a banana andan orange, but you never got one
the rest of the year because you
couldn’t import them.
“So it was one of the best things
that ever happened to me, the
Second World War – but we don’t
want a third one,” he added.
And Sir Michael told how his
family received yet more back-
handed fortune when they were
bombed out of their London home.
They were given a new,“luxury”
prefab, complete with central
heating, hot water, a bathroom,
fridge and an electric light.
Sir Michael said he had never
lived in a house before and “it waslike moving to Mayfair, except I
didn’t know where Mayfair was”.
Sir Michael – real name Maurice
Micklewhite – revealed who he has
to thank for his screen credit.
His agent told the Londoner that
he needed to pick a new stage name
“and I looked round Leicester
Square and it said, ‘Humphrey
Bogart in The Caine Mutiny’. And I
went, ‘Caine’.
“But it was very good, ’cause the
theatre next door... if I’d have done
that, I’d have been Michael 101
Dalmatians!”OPINION: PAGE 12