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AFL WAG Clementine McVeigh pays heartbreaking tribute to her late daughter Luella on what would have been her 10th birthday… after she tragically died from a heart condition
Clementine McVeigh has paid a heartbreaking tribute to her daughter Luella – who died 10 years ago, aged just one month.
On Sunday, the AFL WAG, 37, posted a photo of baby Luella in hospital to Instagram on what would have been her 10th birthday.
‘Happy 10th birthday my beautiful Luella-Paloma. It’s been 10 years. I think about you daily,’ the New Zealand-native wrote.
‘I think about you daily’: AFL WAG Clementine McVeigh (pictured) paid heartbreaking tribute to her late daughter Luella on what would have been her 10th birthday
‘For the past 10 years you are the reason for making me the mother I am today. You have made me extremely compassionate & extremely grateful,’ Clementine said.
‘I look around my every day life and choose what makes me happy. And who brings joy and laughter to my life because I know it could be taken away in a second. Life is so precious, I never knew how precious until I held you in my arms.’
She continued: ‘Luella-Paloma you came into this world with a magical heart. A heart that needed to be shared…Thank you for giving me your heart, it will beat with me till I hold you again one day.
‘To all the Mums & Dads out there that have lost a child or children my heart is warm for you all.. you are not alone.’
Tribute: On Sunday, the AFL WAG posted a photo of baby Luella in hospital to Instagram and wrote: ‘For the past 10 years you are the reason for making me the mother I am today. You have made me extremely compassionate & extremely grateful’
Clementine and her husband Jarrad McVeigh suffered the loss of their first child in 2011 when she passed away four weeks after she was born due to a serious heart complication.
Speaking to Marie Claire in 2017, Clementine said losing her first child was ‘hell’ as she revealed the loss changed her life forever.
‘Losing a child is hell. I wouldn’t wish it upon anybody,’ she told the publication.
Tragic: Clementine and her husband Jarrad McVeigh suffered the loss of their first child in 2011 when she passed away four weeks after she was born due to a serious heart complication
‘It made me appreciate everything I have in life because it can be taken away in a split second.’
Clementine and Jarrad went onto have two more beautiful daughters, Lolita, eight and Florence, three.
Clementine married her Sydney Swans star beau Jarrad in 2010.
Family: Clementine and Jarrad went onto have two more beautiful daughters, Lolita, eight and Florence, three
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