I'm A Celebrity's Coleen Rooney opens up on children's names and miscarriage heartache

I'm A Celebrity's Coleen Rooney opened up about her family life as she detailed the reasoning behind her four boys' unique names and she also shared her heartbreak after suffering two miscarriages.

On Friday's episode, Coleen was shown chatting with Strictly star Oti Mabuse and Loose Women's GK Barry about the origins of her children's names: Kai, Klay, Kit and Cass. Explaining the reason behind not having all of the names begin with a letter K, she revealed: “I looked up the meaning of the name Cassius and with a K it meant blackbird, and with a C it meant clever.”

Deciding on Cassius, Coleen and football star husband Wayne then chose Mac for his middle name given her maiden name was McLoughlin, and her friends used to nickname her Coleen Mac. As Coleen’s middle name was Mary, this then meant Cass would have the same initials as her, CMR.

She also shared that Cass Mac Rooney meant “clever son of Rooney, that’s the meaning. CMR. That’s the only connection I’ve got to the kids!”

Speaking about having four boys, Coleen admitted: “I would’ve liked a girl for Wayne, I wasn’t desperate, he would’ve liked a girl, I wasn’t bothered either way.”

She went on to explain the heartache they went through when two pregnancies ended in miscarriage and she feels those babies were girls. She said: “I’ve had two miscarriages and I don’t know whether that has been girls, you know sometimes they say you can’t carry a certain sex, but they don’t investigate until you have your third one.”

Coleen told Oti and GK how she had her first miscarriage before she had any of her other children, with the second miscarriage coming before she had Kit and Cass.

She admitted: “When I had the first one I was really scared…but then once I had a child, it took that away, I went on to have another one. It’s not a nice feeling for anyone, it's horrible but knowing that I could conceive and have the child, that made me feel better.”

Speaking of Wayne, she said: “I feel for the men in this situation…Wayne really felt it the first time round and it wasn’t until later on that I thought, ‘Do you know what, everyone’s fussing around me, but not him and he had to just get up and go to work as normal', it’s quite hard.”

Oti agreed: “It’s such a precious time but a scary time as well.”

Fans took to X to praise Coleen for her honest and frank chat. One said: "Love how Colleen (sic) has talked about her pregnancy struggles and also mentions how difficult it is for the father and not just the mother. Wow."

Another said: "I’m loving these deep conversations on I’m a celeb this year. Helps people relate and open up with their own struggles and to seek help if needed." And a third added: "Coleen is such a beautiful person."

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