Tom Parker’s pregnant widow Kelsey reveals struggle ahead of first anniversary of stillborn baby’s death
TOM Parker’s pregnant widow Kelsey has revealed her emotional struggle ahead of the first anniversary of her stillborn baby’s death.
Kelsey, 36, tragically lost her son Phoenix in June 2025 after he was born sleeping.
Kelsey has two children with The Wanted singer Tom, who died in 2022 aged 33, – Aurelia, six, and Bodhi, four – but had been expecting her third child with new partner Will Lindsay.
In May, she announced she is pregnant with her rainbow baby but she explained she is now set to tackle a bittersweet weekend.
Amid her pregnancy joy, it will be the one-year anniversary of Phoenix’s passing and in a candid Instagram upload, she admitted she “deeply misses my little boy and wish things had been different”.
Kelsey uploaded a selfie showing her in the sunshine, wearing a white vest top and sunglasses with a gold chain.
In a frank message posted alongside it she put: “I’ve been really quiet on here the last couple of days.
“Truthfully, I’ve been working a lot, trying to keep busy and just processing the fact that Sunday is a big day.
“It’s Phoenix’s first anniversary and it’s Father’s Day too.
“Grief is a strange thing. Some days you can keep going and stay busy, and other days it all catches up with you.
“I’m 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”.
Giving advice to her followers, Kelsey added: “If you’re navigating grief, anniversaries or simply carrying something heavy right now, please know you’re not alone.
“As always… stop waiting, start living. But also, give yourself permission to feel it all”.
Recently, the brave mum appeared on ITV daytime series Good Morning Britain to reveal her home was “treated like a crime scene” after Phoenix arrived into the world.
Kelsey’s spouse Tom died in 2022, aged 33, following a brain tumour battle.
She previously admitted that that grieving Phoenix was “harder than grieving Tom” as she spoke on the Mum’s The Word podcast.
She shared: “It was so hard. I think with Phoenix, it was harder than it was with Tom.
“I think because they [her kids] were so much younger, it’s like I could just be like, ‘daddy wasn’t coming back.’
“And you know, when I said about the angels taking daddy, ‘we won’t see daddy again’, it was like they accepted that and we sort of moved on.
“And now as time’s gone on, they asked me more questions about their dad and stuff, but that initial I suppose with Bod as well. He was 18 months old. It wasn’t a question that he even thought.”
At the time of Tom’s death, Aurelia was around three, and Kelsey’s co-host Georgia pointed out: “They were almost ages where they didn’t understand.
“So you almost didn’t have to explain it too much. You obviously have to explain it, but it’s very different to having a child that completely understands, knows what death is”.
