The naked truth
Oct 28, 2021
4 minutes
Lucy Lear, 24, from Devon
Seeing my boyfriend’s face drain of colour as I broke the news, my heart sank. ‘You’re joking,’ Dale, then 19, gulped.
It was April 2015, and I’d been shocked, too, when the doctor told me I was 12 weeks pregnant.
At just 17, I’d put my bulging belly down to lactose intolerance.
But with my mum Lyn, then 37, promising to be a hands-on gran, I’d started imagining me and Dale with a little one.
‘I’d love us to be a family,’ I begged, besotted.
A week later, seeing our baby during my first scan, Dale seemed to come
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