Towie Lauren: I lit a birthday candle for the baby girl I lost

Star battles grief for daughter’s big day

- ASHLEIGH RAINBIRD

GRIEVING Lauren Goodger has told how she found the strength to celebrate her daughter’s first birthday weeks after the death of her second child.

Tragically, baby Lorena died on July 8, two days after her birth, and Lauren has not yet revealed the cause publicly.

But she kept a candle lit for Lorena as she prepared for Larose’s big day.

Former TOWIE star Lauren wrapped Larose’s presents in pink and filled her home with helium balloons spelling out the little girl’s name.

Lauren, 35, said: “My Lorena was with me in my heart the whole time with her candle lit.”

She said it had been a “very emotional evening for Mummy, but can’t wait to see my big girl in the morning”.