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Paloma Faith admits IVF caused ‘strain’ on marriage

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Paloma Faith has admitted fertility treatment caused a “strain” on her marriage.

Paloma Faith underwent fertility treatment

The 43-year-old singer split from Leyman Lahcine – with whom she has two daughters, aged eight and three – in 2022 after nine years together but cracks first started appearing in their relationship when they began having IVF to conceive their first child as the ‘Only Love Can Hurt Like This’ harboured “resentment” towards the artist because of what she had to put her body through, even though it was him with fertility problems.

Speaking to Davina McCall on her ‘Begin Again’ podcast, Paloma said: “When we first started trying, I had previously become pregnant quite easily and so I was concerned.

“It does irritate me that science, because it is mainly dominated by men, is that if it is a male fertility problem, which it was in our case, it is still the woman that has to endure the brunt of the stuff.

“There has been no breakthrough. He was devastated the whole time and said, ‘If there’s something I can take, or I can do injections. Why does it have to fall on you?’

“But it did, and it does. He was empathetic but I think that put a strain on our relationship in itself because his view was ‘You’re so hardworking, breadwinner and all I had to do was this and I can’t do it.’

“It was difficult because I knew I could just conceive naturally and I think that put a strain on us because I’m not someone who buries my feelings. I just say, ‘This is frustrating’. “

And when Paloma was keen to go through treatment again to have a second child, Leyman warned he didn’t think their marriage would cope with the strain.

She said: “The birth was not ideal and then when we came to lockdown the fertility clinic called me and said, ‘We’re still open,…

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