Former EastEnders Actress Kellie Shirley Gives Birth To Twins

Actress Kellie Shirley has welcomed twins, a boy and girl, named Louie and Pearl. Speaking to Hello magazine, the former Eastenders star revealed that she underwent a Caesarean section after developing an infection. In conversation with the publication, Kellie said: “I was completely out of it, partly down to the medication and temperature and partly because I’d had no sleep". The 32-year-old came around when she heard her babies crying with her husband telling her that she had delivered a baby boy and a baby girl. Kellie, whom Eastenders fans will remember as Shirley's daughter Carly Wicks, previously said that she would donate her umbilical cord blood to the Anthony Nolan foundation.

We're delighted that @KelShirl will be donating her cord blood to us - it could save a life! http://t.co/VyvDp82fjs pic.twitter.com/kNWIPzZoFm

— Anthony Nolan (@AnthonyNolan) July 10, 2015

It is an organisation set up to help save the lives of people with blood cancer by finding suitable bone marrow transplants and it is also dedicated to stem cell research.