Storm Keating: It’s heartbreaking that I still can’t pick my kids up properly

“It was one of the hardest things I found, not being able to just do what I would normally do and be a mummy and hold my children.”

Loving family life: Storm Keating with son Cooper (James Linsell-Clark/Sky/PA)

Storm Keating has just found out she’s unlikely to ever regain full use of her right leg because of damage caused by a severe spinal condition that developed earlier this year.

Yet despite such a devastating prognosis, the upbeat Aussie, wife of Boyzone’s Ronan Keating, says having a partially-numb leg is a “small price to pay” because she could have been paralysed in both legs and have lost control of her bowel and bladder if the condition hadn’t been detected so early.