{"id":247449,"date":"2026-06-20T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/kelsey-parker-shares-emotional-struggle-days-before-first-anniversary-of-stillborn-babys-death\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:00:11","slug":"kelsey-parker-shares-emotional-struggle-days-before-first-anniversary-of-stillborn-babys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/kelsey-parker-shares-emotional-struggle-days-before-first-anniversary-of-stillborn-babys-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey Parker shares emotional struggle days before first anniversary of stillborn baby&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-06-20\" datetime=\"1781974811\" pubdate=\"\">20 June 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Parker has shared her emotional struggle days before the first anniversary of her stillborn baby&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Kelsey Parker \/ \u00a9 Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The TV personality and her partner, Will Lindsay, lost their son, Phoenix, at 39 weeks last Father&#8217;s Day (21.06.25) &#8211; also poignant for Kelsey, her daughter Aurelia, six, and son, Bodi, five, as her husband, The Wanted singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/tom-parker\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,tom-parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Parker<\/a>, died from a brain tumour at the age of 33 in March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey, 36, posted an outdoor selfie on Instagram on Friday (19.06.26), with the caption: &#8220;I\u2019ve been really quiet on here the last couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Truthfully, I\u2019ve been working a lot, trying to keep busy and just processing the fact that Sunday is a big day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s Phoenix\u2019s first anniversary, and it\u2019s Father\u2019s Day too.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Grief is a strange thing. Some days you can keep going and stay busy, and other days it all catches up with you.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I\u2019m learning that both things can exist at once. I can feel excited about this next chapter of life, be grateful for everything I have, and still deeply miss my little boy and wish things had been different.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;If you\u2019re navigating grief, anniversaries or simply carrying something heavy right now, please know you\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;As always\u2026 stop waiting, start living. But also, give yourself permission to feel it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nIt comes weeks after Kelsey and Will announced they are expecting a &#8220;rainbow baby&#8221; &#8211; a term given for a child born after a family has experienced a stillbirth, pregnancy loss, or infant death.<\/p>\n<p>\nOn May 31, she posted a video to Instagram, in which hands revealed the ultrasound, before Kelsey gently placed a white feather beside the image, symbolising spiritual comfort, with Tom and Phoenix giving her and Will &#8220;another little gift from heaven&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nKelsey&#8217;s caption read: &#8220;A year ago next month, we lost our beautiful baby boy, Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And somehow, through all the heartbreak, it feels like Tom and Phoenix have sent us another little gift from heaven our little rainbow baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nFollowing Phoenix&#8217;s death in June 2025, Kelsey penned an emotional poem for him, which was shared on Instagram, with the caption: &#8220;Phoenix Parker-Lindsay, you will forever be loved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe short verse read: &#8220;The grew quiet as you arrived, So loved, so longed for, yet not alive. Our precious boy, our angel light, Born with wings, took silent flight&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We named you Phoenix, brave and bright. A soul of love, of warmth and light Though we never heard you cry, You&#8217;ll live in hearts that won&#8217;t ask why. No breath you drew, no eyes to see, Still, you mean everything to me. You&#8217;ll journey with us, softly near, In every sigh, in every tear. (sic)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Christmas Eve, she took to social media and shared a photo of a new plaque installed on Tom&#8217;s memorial bench that features Phoenix&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe new plaque reads: &#8220;I walk towards my destiny with ease. 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