Hollyoaks star Jorgie Porter, 37, is settling to life with a newborn again after giving birth to her daughter, baby Peony Porter Piotrowski, via caesarean section last month. The 37 year old, who has played Theresa McQueen on the Channel 4 soap since 2008, is now a doting mum to the baby, and her big brothers Forest, two, and Alfie, the 10-year-old son of her fiance Ollie Piotrowski.
Forest and Alfie, who lives with them in their Greater Manchester home half of the time, and Jorgie's mum "Grannie Ju Ju" already besotted by the little one, who was born at 10.40am on December 10, after a pregnancy that Jorgie exclusively told OK! felt like it lasted "100 years".
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OK!/Kellie Stamper @gracekelliephotography)"Honestly, it was the longest time,” she shared. "Margot Robbie had her baby about a week after she announced her pregnancy – I was pregnant for what felt like 100 years!
"The trouble was that my bump popped really early so I couldn’t hide it. By the end I’d wake up every day and think, ‘Yup, I’m still a whale, I’m not getting away from this.’ So it was harder this time, but I felt like I really should enjoy it more and milk it. So if I randomly wanted to lie down, I’d lie down, I just didn’t care what other people thought. I just wanted to enjoy it."
Jorgie and her fiancé Ollie, who proposed to the actress at the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland in 2021, clearly had a theme in mind when it comes to baby names - and Jorgie said she's had Peony's name squirrelled away for years and keeping it a secret wasn't easy.
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OK!/Kellie Stamper @gracekelliephotography)“We’d not heard of anyone with the name Peony and I love the flowers, they’re so beautiful,” she said. "But we were literally desperate to tell people her name before someone else had a baby and chose it before us! We didn’t give her a middle name because she’s Peony Porter Piotrowski which is already quite a lot for a kid to say, isn’t it?"
Now that her family is complete - Jorgie says they zero plans to have any more children - she's already thinking about what might come next for her work-wise. She joined the cast of Hollyoaks aged just 20, but says she's more "obsessed" with the show today than she's ever been.
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Lime Pictures)"I love working, I‘ve been doing it from such a young age, and I did Hollyoaks and Dancing On Ice at the same time," she said. "Obviously it’s not as easy having a baby too, but maybe I’ll ask them if I can just bring Peony to the show and then ask the costume department if they can just hide her!".
As well as stepping back into Theresa McQueen's shoes, there's also another popular show on the top of her wish list - Strictly Come Dancing.
“I miss dancing, it’s my first love,” she says. “So anything involving dance would be my dream. I cry every time Strictly comes on because I’d love to do it!".
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