Stacey Solomon: Loose Women star gives herself 'black eye' while building coop for new ducklings

Stacey Solomon injured herself while trying to build a coop for her new ducklings. The Loose Women panellist, who recently announced her plans to step back from showbiz and be a stay-at-home mum, has been building her Pickle Cottage Duck House when the incident occurred.

Taking to Instagram on Tuesday morning, the 34-year-old said she accidentally gave herself a black eye following an impulsive late night decision to build the coop for the ducklings in dim lighting. A cut could also be seen in the middle of her left eye where she had dropped part of the coop on it while building it.

Posting to her Instagram story, she said: “Good morning...I may have given myself a black eye.” She added: “'I thought "If I don't put it up right this second I won't put it up until the weekend".

“And any normal person would say, ‘It's fine put it up at the weekend, they're not going to be in that coop for another six weeks’ but my toxic trait is if there's something in front of me I have to do it immediately. So I persisted to build a duck coop in literally dusk, dusk lighting and I got to the roof, got to the triangle bit on the roof and dropped it on my eye.

“Ugh why am I like this? So that'll be fun at the shoot tomorrow. It will probably be worse tomorrow. It's always worse the day after the day after.” However, her injury did not stop her from being excited about her project, saying that it was “worth it”. She said: “But it was worth it. I'll show the coop it looks really good. I've still got to do the base and dig out the pond but it is really cool and I'm very excited.”

The mum-of-five revealed the two new additions to her family on Instagram last week, as she shared a video of two of her children Rex, five, and Rose, two, cuddling the ducklings, as she asked fans for name ideas.

She wrote: “Welcome To Pickle Cottage Little Ones. We are so excited to love you & we hope you love living here & being a part of our crazy family. We have no idea what to call our new babies yet, so any suggestions welcome. Honestly wanted to make our garden home to ducklings for so long so thank you @luisazissman from giving us the opportunity to raise your hatchlings.”

In late May, Stacey, who has appeared on Loose Women, Bake Off: The Professionals, and her own shows such as Sort Your Life Out and Renovation Rescue, announced plans to step back from TV in a huge career move. The former X Factor star said: “I just want to be with my kids."