‘I'm so completely and utterly in love with my husband'

Fashion designer Storm Keating opens up about her recovery from emergency spinal surgery, motherhood and what it’s like being married to Ronan

- EMILY WHITWAM

Being married to Boyzone’s Ronan Keating hasn’t always been a breeze for Storm.

Speaking to the 39-year-old over the phone, she reveals how critical people were when they first fell for each other in 2012, five months after Ronan’s split from his first wife, Yvonne. The pair then got hitched in 2015.

“Back in the earlier days when I first started dating Ro, people were a lot more judgemental,” she admits. “But I think over time they’ve got to know me a bit more.”

And that definitely does seem to be the case, with the couple now happily settled with their two children, Cooper, four, and Coco, 14 months. Ronan is also dad to Jack, 22, Missy, 20, and Ali, 15, who he shares with Yvonne.

During our catch-up, Storm admits that she wouldn’t have got through the trauma of an emergency operation on her back without her The One Show presenter husband and his older children.

She was diagnosed with cauda equina syndrome, a rare type of spinal stenosis that leaves the nerves in the lower back severely compressed and could have led to paralysis without treatment. Thankfully, the operation to cure it appears to have been a success.

“I don’t know how we would have got through this speed bump if it wasn’t for having the support of Ronan, Jack and Missy,” she tells us. “My view on life has definitely changed a lot since I had that scare.”

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