Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters At just 12 years of age, when Lottie's half-brother Louis Tomlinson became an international sensation with One Direction, it looked like she was set for a life of glamour. She even joined the band's entourage as a makeup artist after finishing school, touring the world in first-class luxury by 2015. However, her world was turned upside down before she hit her 20s, after she experienced the devastating loss of both her mother and sister in rapid succession, leaving her to grapple with immense sorrow.
Lottie had to deal with the heartbreaking death of her mom, Johannah Deakin, who succumbed to leukaemia in 2016, only seven months following after her diagnosis. Her parents had separated when she was 13, and with no ties to her biological father, Lottie chose to return home to Doncaster. Bearing her grief, she decided to put her career on pause to look after her five younger siblings - Felicite, aged 16 at the time, 12 year old twins Phoebe and Daisy, and two year old twins Doris and Ernie - as well as support her grandmother and Dan, the twins' dad.
Recalling her decision to move back, Lottie expressed that she had no doubts: "I needed to be there for the little ones. It was just an instinct. And we've all got that in us because of how my mum brought us up.
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