Singer Paloma Faith has been admitted to hospital after contracting a severe case of the flu, an illness she revealed while sharing candid anxieties about her pregnancy at the age of 44.
Hospital Stay and Pregnancy Announcement
The 44-year-old musician, recently seen on The Celebrity Traitors, posted a picture from a hospital bed on social media on December 7, 2025. In the image, she wore a black jumper and a medical mask, thanking staff at Homerton Hospital for providing her with nebuliser treatment for the flu.
Just hours after this post, Faith returned to social media with a more personal reflection. She uploaded black and white photos of herself, accompanied by a message expressing her mixed emotions. "Pregnancy at 44. Ngl that’s a bit worrying but I’m trying to pretend to myself I’m calm so that eventually that comes true," she wrote.
She added, "I couldn’t be more happy about another baby and I’m bracing myself for the storm…."
A Look at Her Personal Journey
This pregnancy will be Faith's third child. She already shares two daughters, born in 2016 and 2021, with her ex-partner Leyman Lahcine. The couple ended their decade-long relationship in 2023. The father of her current pregnancy has not been publicly named, though earlier this year she was reportedly dating Stevie Thomas, a Birmingham music venue director, after they attended a Brit Awards afterparty together.
Faith has never publicly disclosed her children's names, but she has been open about the immense difficulty she faced in building her family. Before welcoming her two daughters, she underwent a harrowing fertility journey that included:
- Six rounds of IVF treatment.
- An ectopic pregnancy.
- A devastating miscarriage, which occurred while she was filming the TV series Pennyworth.
Speaking Out on Fertility and Relationships
In a previous interview on Davina McCall's Begin Again podcast, Faith discussed the challenges, revealing that the fertility issues in her previous relationship were male-factor. She expressed frustration that the burden of treatment still fell on her. "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," she stated.
She also reflected on how motherhood changed her and contributed to the end of her previous relationship. "You either grow together, adapting to one another like expandable foam and filling the gaps where it’s empty – or one person grows and the other stays the same," Faith explained.
"And I think for me, becoming a mother was such a massively life-changing experience that for the first time in my life, I needed more than nothing – and the expandable foam just wasn’t there. Our relationship ended because we have those children. And I think that was worth it."
