Kerry Lucas carefully studies the black-and-white ultrasound scan capturing the beginnings of a new life.
“It looks just like a little peanut,” smiles the Adelaide swimwear model, whose life was shattered by the death of her five-month-old son Leonardo last December 15, only hours after she’d photographed him in front of the family Christmas tree.
Kerry, 31, fights back tears as she recalls how she tucked the tot into his red three-wheeler pram and headed off on her regular early morning jog along Adelaide’s River Torrens.
Interrupted by a mobile phone call, the young mum stopped to scribble down a phone number — unaware the buggy carrying her slumbering infant was rolling silently down the sloping bank into the Torrens.
The caller was still on the line when Kerry realised her baby was missing. Her anguished cries attracted the attention of a nearby TV camera crew.
Initially it was thought Leo had been kidnapped, but 25 minutes later, as passers-by joined the frantic search for him and tried to calm his hysterical mother, Leo’s buggy surfaced in the river.
Now, nearly a year after founding a special legacy in honour of the baby they lost, Kerry and her stockbroker husband Wesley Legrand are expecting again. And the former Inside Sport covergirl is convinced her new baby will mend her broken heart…
Read our exclusive interview with Kerry in Woman’s Day (on-sale November 5)
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