Coronation Street actor Melissa Johns says ‘I have never felt anything similar to this’ as she reveals she has given birth to her first baby with her husband Dan
Coronation Street and Grantchester actress Melissa Johns has exclusively revealed to The Mirror that she has welcomed her first baby, a daughter who she ‘can’t take her eyes off’. Melissa, 35, welcomed her daughter with her husband, Dan Hampton, one year after they tied the knot in a romantic Hertfordshire ceremony.
The soap star, who is known for her role as Imogen Pascoe, gave fans a glimpse inside her baby bubble with her new daughter as they enter a whole new era of their lives. She shared one intimate photo of them walking down the hospital corridor with their bundle of joy snuggled up in a car seat, and another of a bassinet, which showed two tiny feet poking out of the top.
In a sweet caption, Melissa wrote: “Our baby girl is here. We can’t take out eyes off you”. Alongside the emotional post played the song Can’t Take My Eyes Off You by Frankie Valli.
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The glowing new mum told The Mirror: “I thought I’d felt most emotions by this point in my life. Or at lease emotions I could compare to other experiences. But I have never felt anything similar to this. The love, the magic, the hormone dips. It’s a rollercoaster. And one I’m so so grateful to be on.”
Melissa, who was born with only one arm, added: “I’m so lucky to be doing this with Dan. He’s carried us both for 9 months and continues to do so now. He’s quite literally my right arm.”
It follows after Melissa recently opened up on her pregnancy and gushed about how ’empowered’ and ‘limitless’ she felt when growing her daughter. She previously told us: “It feels so empowering to me. I’ve grown up not seeing people with body differences in bump photoshoots and I’ve spent a lot of my life with people telling me that my body is limited.
Adding: “Having a limb difference, people have commented on it, judged it and put their own limitations on it. There’s something about growing and carrying a baby that makes me feel limitless. Growing up feeling people were limiting me to growing a child and feeling limitless, it’s a lovely feeling.”
The disability activist revealed her pregnancy to her online followers in June alongside a picture taken on the beach with husband Dan. Before giving birth, she explained that people would ask how she would cope, adding: “That just adds an extra layer of anxiety to the pressure that all first-time mums feel.
“We’re all worrying, how does this work? And on top of that I’m thinking, ‘What about when my husband is at work – will I be able to find a one-handed pram that I can collapse with one arm? How will I get the pram in and out of the car on my own? How will I drink a cup of coffee with my friends while holding the baby?’
“I feel like saying, ‘I don’t know yet, I haven’t worked it out, but I will find a way.’”
Source: Mirror
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