Kym Marsh celebrates her 44th birthday in lockdown alongside beau Scott Ratcliffe and her three children as she thanks them for making ‘everything feel normal’
Kym Marsh celebrated her 44th birthday in lockdown on Saturday alongside her boyfriend Scott Ratcliffe, 31, and her three children.
The Coronation Street actress shared a sweet photo of her birthday display that included balloons, cake and cards.
Kym thanked her family for making ‘everything feel normal’ in a lengthy caption to accompany the pic.
Celebrations: Kym Marsh celebrated her 44th birthday in lockdown on Saturday alongside her boyfriend Scott Ratcliffe, 31, and her three children
The actress was surprised with giant letters of her initials that were placed either side of the fireplace in their living room.
The room was also filled with balloons that matched the pale grey and blue interiors.
A surprised and grateful Kym penned: ‘Well what a surprise for me this morning!!! Can’t believe what my gang have done for me to make me feel special on my lockdown birthday!!
‘Times are crazy right now and I am so grateful to have people in my life that make everything feel normal and who never fail to make me feel loved, happy, safe, appreciated and special.
Surprise! The Coronation Street actress shared a sweet photo of her birthday display that included balloons, cake and cards
‘Thank you from the bottom of my heart my wonderful family, boyfriend and friends. I am emotional and feel so loved! I love you all.’
Kym has children David, 25, Emily, 23, and Polly, nine.
The soap star has suffered heartbreak this month after loosing her uncle George to coronavirus.
The star said George, the husband of her mother’s sister, caught the virus in hospital and his family was unable to visit him during his final days.
Kym penned: ‘Well what a surprise for me this morning!!! Can’t believe what my gang have done for me to make me feel special on my lockdown birthday!!’
The former Hear’Say singer paid tribute to her ‘amazing’ uncle in her OK! magazine column on Monday, saying he was the ‘life and soul of any party’.
She said: ‘You hear about people losing their loved ones during this time and people passing away alone in hospitals and only a few people attending their funerals. But when it happens to you and your family, it really brings this whole thing home.
‘It breaks my heart to think of him being alone in that hospital.’
She continued: ‘Thank you from the bottom of my heart my wonderful family, boyfriend and friends. I am emotional and feel so loved! I love you all’ (pictured with children David, 25, Emily, 23, and Polly, nine)
Kym said George had been in a care home before he fell ill and was taken to hospital, meaning his children hadn’t been able to see him for ‘so long’ before he passed away.
Family members sent him video messages which were played to George by nurses before he died, which she hopes provided him with ‘some comfort’ in his final days.
George was close with the star and would often accompany her to her first gigs, pretending to be her bodyguard.
Kym added: ‘My uncle George was an amazing man and I have so many happy memories of him. He was a great guy and the life and soul of any party. Sleep tight uncle George.’
Kym’s family has had a number of recent health difficulties and she previously thanked the NHS for saving the lives of her father and children.
The soap star said that in recent years they’ve cared for her dad David after he suffered two heart attacks, along with daughter Polly and son David, who were both born prematurely.
She ended: ‘Times are crazy right now and I am so grateful to have people in my life that make everything feel normal and who never fail to make me feel loved, happy, safe, appreciated and special’ (pictured with boyfriend Scott)