Lacey Turner celebrates husband’s birthday in Instagram post

They welcomed their first child together – daughter Dusty – in July. 

And after nearly a year as a family of three, Lacey Turner and her husband Matt Kay appear happier than ever as she paid tribute to her beloved on his birthday. 

Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, the former EastEnders star, 32, shared a series of sweet snaps while adding the caption: ‘Happy birthday my love!’

Lacey continued writing: ‘Thank you for being our best friend , the best husband and best daddy in the whole wide. We love you forever & ever’. 

The couple looked incredibly loved-up in a sweet snap as they cosied up in front of their Christmas tree while she beamed into the camera. 

Another shot showed a sweet snap from their 2017 wedding while another image saw Matt cradling little Dusty. Earlier this year, Lacey admitted she ‘ignored’ Dusty’s pregnancy as she felt ‘numb’ after suffering two miscarriages.

Appearing on Loose Women, the EastEnders star reflected on her journey to motherhood after welcoming daughter Dusty in July with husband Matt.

She refused to acknowledge her third pregnancy until she was 14 weeks along, and even then would not allow herself to get excited until she reached the 25 week mark.

Discussing getting pregnant for the third time, Lacey revealed: ‘It took us ages to get pregnant. I put so much pressure on myself to fall pregnant and it wasn’t happening.

‘It got to the point where I said to Matt, “Let’s just forget it. We’ll get a puppy.” As soon as we’d said that, we fell pregnant.’

Revealing she had a scan ‘every week’ during her pregnancy with Dusty, she explained: ‘I was so scared. Until you feel kicking, you don’t know if anything is actually there.

‘I always thought, “This might not work,” I just became really laid back about the whole thing. I just felt numb to the whole thing.’

Before she fell pregnant with Dusty, Lacey suffered two miscarriages, and admitted she didn’t know ‘how’ to grieve the loss.

Discussing her first pregnancy, she recalled: ‘You start thinking about baby names and looking at clothes and things, and then it was just sort of gone… at seven weeks.

‘It was such a massive shock as quite naively I thought, “I’m going to have a baby”… It’s so hard, what do you say to people? I don’t want them to feel uncomfortable about it. Although I felt so heartbroken, I just thought “I’ll brush that under the rug”…

‘It’s hard because, are you supposed to grieve for something that’s the size of a grain of rice? People believe different things, but for me it was a baby from the minute it was conceived.’