Ferne McCann calls daughter Sunday her ‘light’ as she opens up about ‘turbulent' seven months

McCann said she didn't plan to have a child this year
Emma Powell4 December 2017
The Weekender

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Ferne McCann has opened up about the “turbulent” seven months she endured while pregnant with her first child as her ex-boyfriend was jailed for an acid attack.

Arthur Collins was arrested after throwing acid over revellers in a crowded east London nightclub in April.

McCann said her newborn daughter Sunday, who she has with Collins, has been keeping her "focused".

Speaking on This Morning she said: “This year it wasn’t the plan to have a baby but you can’t plan life so it just happened. I wasn’t the most maternal person but now I feel so maternal and I’m so in love with her.”

TV debut: Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby coo over Sunday
ITV

She continued: “And I think that’s the thing for me, there was always light at the end of the tunnel. You know, I can’t lie, it has been a turbulent seven months for me but I had something to look forward to so that was my focus.

“I could always focus on the fact that I’m pregnant and I’m going to welcome Sunday into my life.”

The former TOWIE star, who took her daughter along to the ITV show, said she does not want to be known as a single mother.

She said: “I don’t like the term ‘single mum’. I don’t think I should be labelled. I’m a first time mum like any other mum. It can have a negative connotation to it.”

McCann and Collins had an on-off romance before the attack for which he was convicted of five counts of grievous bodily harm with intent and nine of actual bodily harm on November 13.

He was warned he could face life in jail when he is sentenced on December 19.

McCann visited Collins with Sunday in prison last month to tell him that he would never see them again.

Speaking about the decision to visit him, she told the Sunday People: “It was a difficult decision to take Sunday into that environment but I felt I needed to confront him about a number of things, which I have now done.”

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