POP star Paloma Faith seems to have it all – but during a devastating bout of postnatal psychosis she started fearing her baby girl was not hers. In a searingly honest talk, to tie in with her best-selling memoir, the single mum singer told how she felt a “disassociation” after having her second daughter through IVF treatment . She even rang the fertility clinic to check if there was any possibility that her biological daughter could be living elsewhere.
Paloma said: “My hair colour is naturally dark, and my ex-partner is fully Algerian, but this baby was blonde, and it was really freaking me out. "I went a bit psychotic, because after being in the clinic, I was thinking: Whose baby is this? “I was really worried, and I rang the clinic and asked, ‘Is there a chance . .
.’ I was worried that my actual child might be living in Hampstead with a family and having horse-riding lessons.” Read More on Showbiz Paloma, 43, had her first child, another daughter, in December 2016 and later had six gruelling rounds of IVF to get pregnant with her second girl, who was born in February 2021, during the pandemic.
She has decided not to publicly reveal the names of the girls, now aged three and eight, who she had with her ex-husband, French artist Leyman Lahcine . Looking back on her harrowing second pregnancy, she added: “Because of the disassociation after having a baby through fertility treatment, then a planned caesarean . .
. then they took that baby.