On an August afternoon in Surrey, Lauren Evans and Hannah Kaye stood together in their local registry office, exchanging vows after two years of dating. It was supposed to be one of the happiest days of their lives. The 31-year-old influencer and her 29-year-old specialist engineer wife had hired a professional photographer, Zoe Mills, to capture every moment. The photos were beautiful. Two women in love, celebrating their commitment to each other.
When Lauren posted those photos to her 24,000 Instagram followers, she expected congratulations, well-wishes, maybe even some heart emojis. Instead, hundreds of people attacked her.
“Some people said it was cute that my 10-year-old son was walking me down the aisle,” Lauren recalled in an interview with What’s The Jam. “Others said it was disgusting that I was kissing a young boy.”
The comments flooded in. “I thought she married a child.” “Why does she look like a 13-year-old boy?” “Is he old enough to get married?” Strangers on the internet, armed with nothing but assumptions, accused Lauren of pedophilia.
But Hannah Kaye isn’t a child. She’s a 29-year-old woman, just two years younger than her wife.
Hannah Has Always Looked Younger
Hannah Kaye has lived her entire life looking younger than she is. In an interview with What’s The Jam, she says that at nearly 30 years old, she is still carded at every bar, and store clerks refuse to sell her lottery tickets. Even energy drinks are off-limits to her if she doesn’t have her ID on her. On a recent vacation to Spain, she had to show her passport and holiday booking just to get an adult wristband at their resort.
“Everyone has their opinion of my appearance,” Hannah says. “I’ve grown up with everyone having an opinion of me and how I look.”
What Hannah faces falls under an umbrella term called lookism, discrimination based on physical appearance. Unlike racism or sexism, lookism has almost no legal protections. Hannah exists in a body that presents itself younger than her actual age. And in a world increasingly watchful for predatory behavior, that youthful appearance has turned her and her wife into targets.
The trolling wasn’t entirely new for the couple. Any photo they posted together attracted these nasty comments. But according to Hannah, “The negativity exploded when we uploaded our wedding photos.” Something about making their relationship official seemed to unleash the worst in people.
“People think they have the right to call me a predator or a paedophile and that disgusts me,” Lauren told reporters. “The amount of abuse we’ve received is just ridiculous.”
Blocking and Moving On
The harassment also affected their families. “Our family has read those comments online, and it upsets them,” Hannah said. “They are very protective of us both.”
The couple has found ways to cope. Hannah just blocks and ignores. “I just don’t acknowledge any comments. I just block them,” she said. “I’ve heard them all before and the trolls are so narrow-minded that there is no point engaging with them.”
Lauren is less willing to stay silent. “Strangers online can say what they like, but we’re living our best life,” she said.
A Family Plan Accelerated
Lauren and Hannah met on Tinder two years before their wedding. They clicked right away, and within months, they were already talking about the future they wanted. Hannah proposed in January 2024. By then, starting a family was no longer just something they talked about. It was the next step.
They began researching IVF options. They looked into reciprocal IVF in the UK first, where one partner provides the eggs and the other carries the pregnancy. Lauren already had two children, aged 10 and 9, from a previous relationship. She would carry this pregnancy so the babies would be Hannah’s biological children. That way, they could both be involved, and Hannah didn’t want to carry. They chose a sperm donor from an international sperm bank who looked like Lauren.
The UK quote came back at £21,000. But Lauren worked in medical tourism with a health company in Turkey. She used her connections there to arrange an IVF package in Northern Cyprus for £9,000, including treatments and flights.
But UK law created a problem. If they weren’t married before treatment, Hannah would have to legally adopt her own biological child. The fix was simple. They would marry first. “We did the wedding in six weeks,” Lauren said.
In August 2024, they married. One month later, despite the harassment that had already started, they were on a plane to Northern Cyprus, moving toward the family they had planned.
Three Days After Transfer
On September 18, 2024, doctors transferred three embryos into Lauren’s uterus. The clinic told them there was a 75% chance one would stick. Standard protocol says to wait two weeks before testing. The embryo needs time to implant, and hormone levels need to rise.
Lauren held out for three days, then gave in and took a test. “To get a positive pregnancy result three days after transfer!” she wrote on their Facebook page, The Kaye Family. “It would make sense even with all the bleeding in the beginning of pregnancy!”
For anyone who doesn’t know why the bleeding would make sense, rapid implantation breaks tiny blood vessels when the embryo burrows into the uterine wall. Lauren’s HCG levels, the pregnancy hormone, were through the roof. Such high levels so early meant the embryos had implanted fast.
Three weeks later, at the six-week scan, the doctor delivered news they weren’t expecting. “They could see viable babies. Hannah’s face dropped,” Lauren told Woking News and Mail. One embryo had implanted and split three ways. Identical triplets. The other two embryos had not made it.
All three girls. Lauren and Hannah learned they were expecting three daughters: Hettie, Nellie, and Winnie.
“After finding out we have rare identical triplets, I went through old scans,” Lauren wrote in June on The Kaye Family page. She wondered whether she had briefly carried quadruplets, whether one had vanished before early imaging could catch it.
Identical Triplets
People online insisted identical triplets from IVF were impossible. So, Lauren had the placenta tested. “The results are facts, so definitely not impossible,” she wrote. Twins run in the family, but no one saw this coming.
All three babies share one placenta, which means they compete for nutrients and blood flow. This can lead to twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, where one baby gets too much blood while another doesn’t get enough.
Researchers analyzed over 43,000 triplet pregnancies in a 2022 study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. Most triplets deliver around 32 weeks, with 98% arriving before 37 weeks. Surrey Live reported Lauren would have a scheduled cesarean at 34 weeks, six weeks before full term.
Lauren had already lost a daughter named Amelia before this. In a social media post, she wrote about carrying that grief into this new pregnancy. “Today is a bittersweet day. My heart breaks with every passing year and all the milestones lost with my daughter Amelia. She will definitely never be forgotten, but what scares me now is being pregnant and being blessed with three beautiful babies growing inside me.”
At the three-month mark, all three babies were developing well. “To reach the three-month mark and all babies to be developing happily is another miracle,” she said. “We’re prepared for anything and hoping for the best possible outcome.”
She was trying to believe in this pregnancy while remembering what she’d lost. But joy and hope don’t pay bills or buy cribs.
When Financial Reality Hits
In January 2025, with Lauren about 16 weeks pregnant with triplets, Hannah lost her engineering job.
The timing could not have been worse. Most couples would struggle with the loss of one income while preparing for one baby. But for a family expecting three, it was devastating. The couple had already spent £9,000 on IVF in Cyprus. Now they needed three car seats, three cribs, three sets of everything. Clothes, diapers, formula if needed, and endless medical appointments.
They moved back to Hannah’s parents’ house and started fundraising, hoping to raise £3,000 for baby essentials, travel, and accommodation costs around the birth. They’d need to save for a deposit on a 4 or 5-bedroom place to accommodate their growing family.
Lauren worried the triplets would arrive earlier than the scheduled 34-week delivery, and she was right to worry, but not for the reasons she thought.
The Day Everything Changed
At 23 weeks and six days pregnant, Winnie’s heart stopped beating.
Lauren made a decision. She would carry Winnie for as long as she carried Hettie and Nellie. All three babies would be born together. Winnie was part of this pregnancy, part of this family, and Lauren wasn’t going to separate her from her sisters.
For nine more weeks, she carried her daughters. She felt Hettie and Nellie move while Winnie stayed still. At 32 weeks, two weeks before the scheduled delivery, all three babies were born.
The hospital provided a cuddle cot, a cooling unit that preserves a baby’s body so families can spend time together. Lauren and Hannah held Winnie for hours. They took photos and said goodbye. The cuddle cot gave them what they needed most, time to be with their daughter while they grieved.
In the UK, 24 weeks is the legal line that separates stillbirth from miscarriage. Winnie died one day before that line. In the eyes of the law, she didn’t exist.
Lauren and Hannah felt otherwise. Winnie was their daughter. Lauren had carried her, birthed her, and they both held her. She was real.
Because of these laws, Winnie couldn’t be registered as a birth or given a death certificate. Lauren and Hannah started campaigning for Winnie’s Law, a change in UK legislation that would let parents register babies who die after being carried past 24 weeks, even if the baby dies before that point.
By November 2025, the government officially approved their petition. Other babies like Winnie can be legally recognized. Grief can get the acknowledgment it deserves.
Today
Hettie and Nellie are seven months old. Lauren posts updates about them and celebrates their milestones. But Winnie is always there too, remembered and part of the story.
“I’m Lauren, married to Hannah, and together we have four beautiful children here on earth: Reese (11), Lottie (9), and our two surviving triplets Hettie and Nellie,” she wrote in a recent post. “We also have two children in heaven, Winnie (forever our triplet) and Amelia, who went far too soon.”
The cuddle cot gave Lauren and Hannah hours with Winnie. Now she wants to give that same gift to other families. She’s raising money to donate cuddle cots to hospitals across the UK.
And she’s jumping out of a plane to do it.
The Abuse Continues
After everything Lauren and Hannah have been through, the trolling should have stopped when the babies were born. It didn’t. It got worse.
People on social media started telling Lauren she shouldn’t call Hettie and Nellie triplets. They’re twins, strangers insisted. Winnie is dead. Stop lying about having triplets.
Lauren responded on The Kaye Family Facebook page:
Hannah still gets mistaken for a child. At a Boots pharmacy recently, a cashier asked Lauren if she had a loyalty card. When Lauren said Hannah had one, the cashier replied, “But your little boy can’t be with you all the time.”
“I said, ‘It’s my wife,'” Lauren told Surrey Live.
Online, the same accusations keep coming. Predator. Child bride. Scammer. Too young to consent. The couple blocks and moves on. Every photo they post brings more questions, more demands, more people who refuse to believe what they see.
What This Story Says About Us
Back in September 2020, researchers at the Pew Research Center wanted to understand how common online harassment had become and whether it was getting worse. They surveyed more than 10,000 American adults about their experiences. They found that 41% of Americans have dealt with some form of online harassment on social media, and the same percentage has held steady since they began tracking it in 2014.
Researchers also talk about a category called “non-ideal victims,” people who share their lives publicly online. Instead of receiving empathy when they are attacked, they are blamed for inviting the abuse. Lauren and Hannah post about their grief, their family planning, and their daily routines because it helps them cope with everything they have been through. Strangers see that openness and treat it like permission to judge, accuse, and try to silence them.
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The same Pew researchers asked women under 30 about harassment, and most said they simply expected it. The abuse felt routine, almost like part of the cost of being online. Two-thirds of adults under 30 have experienced harassment, and nearly half have faced severe forms like stalking or sustained attacks. Young women bear the brunt of it.
Lauren and Hannah keep going anyway. Hannah stays home with the twins, blocks the trolls, and posts updates about the babies. Lauren campaigns for Winnie’s Law and raises money for other parents so they can spend more time with the children they have lost. Through every high and low, nothing has stopped them from helping other families navigate the same heartbreak. That alone shows who they are, people who lead with compassion and deserve decency from the world around them.
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