Paloma Faith opens up on fertility struggles and how she questioned if daughter was hers

Paloma Faith opened up on fertility struggles and why she questioned if her daughter was hers.Source: This Morning, ITV

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00:00So I did fertility treatment to have the baby.

00:03And there was this look.

00:04And then I had a cesarean.

00:05And it all felt very disassociated

00:07with how you'd imagine the beauty of birth to be.

00:10And I looked at my child, and I'm half Spanish and half

00:14English and a bottle blonde.

00:16I'm actually brunette.

00:17And my kid's dad is North African.

00:20And I just expected that this child would be mixed.

00:23And I looked down at this blonde baby.

00:26And I was like, it's funny now I say it.

00:29But I didn't know if it was mine or not.

00:31And actually, obviously, she is.

00:33Like, I've raised her.

00:34But actually, that happens a lot to people

00:37who go through fertility treatment

00:38or who have cesareans or who have difficult births,

00:40where we all want to go, I love this child instantly.

00:43I know this child.

00:44This child looks like me.

00:45And socially, that's what we expect.

00:46And that's what we expect.

00:47And we're pressured to feel that.

00:49And I didn't.

00:50And I just was, and I wrote, I actually

00:52wrote an email to the fertility clinic

00:55to see if there was a chance that they might have used

00:58somebody else's sperm or egg.