Kym Marsh has paid tribute to her late son on what would have been his eighth birthday.
The Coronation Street actress posted an emotional message on Twitter, saying she missed Archie every day.
Kym and Jamie Lomas’s son died in 2009, when he was born 18 weeks early.
The actress tweeted: “This day 8 yrs ago my baby boy got his angel wings.
“Happy birthday my beautiful Archie.
“We love you very much and we miss you every day.”
She also shared a poem entitled “An Angel Never Dies”.
The following day Kym tweeted again, this time to announce that a ball would be held in Archie’s honour.
Kym’s Corrie character Michelle Connor went into labour at 23 weeks into her pregnancy in recent scenes, resulting in the death of her baby Ruairi at birth.
After the harrowing episodes went out in January, the brave actress said that recreating a stillbirth on screen was the “best way to honour” the baby she lost.
She said she felt a “gut instinct” to take on the story and encourage people to open up about their own experiences.
The 40-year-old soap fave explained: “My gut instinct was to do this because, I felt, what better way to raise awareness of this subject, and also to honour my son?
“This subject has been very taboo for far too long. Sharing is absolutely imperative to being able to put the pieces of your jigsaw back together.”
Comparing it to her own experience, Kym said: “Calling my son a late miscarriage was one of the things that really got to me because I had just given birth to a baby, I didn’t miscarry him.
“When I’m not here any more, nobody will know that my baby existed, and that is upsetting for a lot of women I think.”