PREGNANT Kelsey Parker has hit back at “sick” trolls who have accused her of “milking” spouse Tom’s death for money.
The 34-year-old is mum to Aurelia, 5, and Bodhi, 4, with her late husband, and is expecting her first child with new partner Will Lindsay.
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As she announced her “amazing and bittersweet” pregnancy news, Kelsey revealed the family had already started thinking of names for the tot – with Aurelia saying she liked the name Parker for a boy.
However, that revelation led to backlash and nasty comments from trolls, one of whom said: “Naming the baby Parker will give her more material to milk Tom further for money.
“She moved on from Tom as soon as she got with that other bloke, just a couple of months after his funeral.
“It won’t be for any sentimental reasons as this woman is driven by attention and money.”
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Married at First Sight’s Paul C Brunson read out the troll’s horrid remark as he spoke to Kelsey for his podcast We Need to Talk, and asked her: “What do you say about that?”
“You are sick,” a visibly shaken Kelsey responded.
“I don’t know.
“What… where do you live?
“I have two children that are Tom’s – do you want me to segregate them from my life?
“And also that comment… on the (photo)shoot, Aurelia was asked what she would like her little baby brother and sister to be called.
“For a girl, she likes Violet from The Incredibles, and for a boy, she likes Parker.”
Kelsey said that while Aurelia is five and “believes that unicorns are real”, she wonders if she might have come up with the name Parker for a deeper reason.
“Maybe she feels like she wants us all to have the same last name,” she mused.
“Maybe she does intuitively feel that I want the baby to be called Parker somewhere because I don’t want my mum now to segregate us.
“And it’s the Parkers and then the Lindsays.”
She went through hell. Why doesn’t she deserve happiness?
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Kelsey concluded by saying that those who watched her “do everything” for Tom when he was battling his brain tumour should know better than to “begrudge” her happiness.
“If you’ve been on that journey with me, you would not begrudge me having a little bit of happiness because that’s all I actually deserve,” she said.
“Happiness and joy.”
As a video of the emotional moment in the interview was shared on TikTok, people were quick to offer their support to Kelsey.
“She deserves all the happiness in the world!” one wrote.
“Kelsey did everything for Tom – the husband & father of her two children who she loved very much.”
“I think naming it Parker if a boy is a lovely touch,” another added.
“It connects Tom’s children to the new baby as they will have different last names.”
“She went through hell. Why doesn’t she deserve happiness?” a third questioned.
“Why does she have to be the poor widow forever? It’s so cruel.”
“I watched her grieving for her husband,” someone else commented.
“She deserves to be happy. There’s some evil people in this world.”
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