BBC EastEnders' Lacey Turner 'excited' as she plans major chapter in life

EastEnders histrion Lacey Turner has opened up arsenic she struggled to incorporate her excitement astir welcoming her 3rd kid successful conscionable a mates of months but the sleepless nights don't fuss her

EastEnders icon Lacey Turner has revealed she's looking guardant to the "next chapter" successful her life.

The prima who is champion known for playing loveable Stacey Slater connected the BBC One soap occasionally shares an penetration into her idiosyncratic beingness with fans connected societal media. In September this year, the star, 36, announced that she and her hubby Matt Kay were expecting their 3rd kid together.

Taking to Instagram, Lacey shared a drawback of herself, Matt and their 2 children posing connected a formation arsenic she beamed portion showing disconnected her ultrasound scan showing disconnected her unborn small one. "Aren't we lucky….. @thekayoskids," she captioned her stunning upload. Now, successful a uncommon interview, Lacey has opened up astir preparing for the accomplishment of her small one.

"I'm excited for each of america really," she gushed arsenic she spoke to the Mirror. She went connected to add: "It's similar different section successful our small story, yea I americium excited. There's thing amended than a newborn and a newborn cuddle, truthful that would beryllium lovely. Yeah, we're truly excited and we're looking guardant to it." But this means that Lacey is acceptable to instrumentality a interruption from her EastEnders relation – though nary details astir Stacey's exit person been confirmed.

But Lacey is already preparing a precise saccharine acquisition for her babe – a photograph publication filled with precious household memories. "You instrumentality tons of photos of them, 1000s of photos," she said. Lacey continued: "I marque 1 for my kids each year, I marque thema photograph publication of their year, I conscionable consciousness similar erstwhile they're older, what if they privation to look astatine the photos of themselves and they don't cognize however to get them disconnected the stick, oregon don't cognize wherever they're going to beryllium successful a unreality oregon successful a machine oregon something.

"I emotion sitting looking done photos, it's bully that I bash it fo them, truthful I should beryllium making three." But 1 happening Lacey isn't disquieted about, however, is the sleepless nights that comes with having a newborn. "Oh that's ok," she chuckled implicit Zoom. This year, Lacey has teamed up with CEWE arsenic she explored the dos and don'ts successful the tally up to Christmas.

She continued to unfastened up astir the adjacent fewer months arsenic she and her household cogwheel up for her caller arrival, saying: "I emotion this clip of twelvemonth and evidently we, you know, we've got a batch going connected successful our location but it's going to beryllium lovely. As the children turn older, it's lovely. They alteration truthful overmuch advertisement this property and it's beauteous to spot they're going done their small milestones and it's great.

"I emotion being cold, cozy cardigans and fires, I don't cognize – I conscionable emotion everything astir this clip of year!" Lacey highlighted that 73 per cent of Brits admit to being disappointed by gifts they person each Christmas. Elsewhere, it was revealed that novelty gifts, household mops and socks are rated arsenic immoderate of the worst presents to bargain for loved ones.

Meanwhile, a whopping 75 per cent of Brits judge that the terms tag ne'er matters, it's the thoughts and sentiments down the presents that are the existent value.

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