Lottie Tomlinson couldn’t sleep and refused to turn off the lights at night because she was convinced “something bad” would happen to her baby son.
Lottie Tomlinson was worried for her baby son
The 25-year-old social media star – who is the sister of One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson- and her fiancé Lewis Burton welcomed their son Lucky in August 2022 and they are expecting baby number two next year – now Lottie has opened up about her struggle as a first-time mum as she was plagued by fears for her child following the death of her mum Johannah in 2016 and sister Félicité three years later.
She told The Times newspaper: “I became fixated [on the idea that] something bad would happen to him, so I couldn’t sleep. You go to the worst-case scenario, because that’s happened to you twice, to two of the closest people in your life.
“I couldn’t turn the lights off at night; I needed to see him all the time. Luckily, it calmed down quite quickly.”
Lottie and her famous brother were left devastated when their mum died after a battle with leukaemia and they were dealt a double blow when their sister Félicité passed away in 2019 aged 18 after suffering a drug overdose.
The influencer admits she was blinded by grief after the second loss and she still struggles to remember much from that period of her life. She explained: “We weren’t mentally prepared. I can’t even remember if the two funerals were in the same church.
“I think grief has affected my memory a lot and that’s quite common. Grief is such a powerful emotion; it takes up a lot of your brain”.
Lottie shared news of her second pregnancy earlier this month with a post on Instagram that read: “Our little family is growing we feel so excited and blessed that another beautiful baby is joining us in Jan 2025.”
She later added a picture on Instagram stories and wrote: “So excited that I can now share my little bump. We are so excited that baby number 2 is coming I can’t even explain.”
Lottie and Lewis got engaged in November 2023 after three years of dating.
