If losing a baby is the worst thing imaginable, and for many women it is, then imagine having to do so in the full glare of the public spotlight.

Kelly Brook becomes the latest in a list of high-profile celebrities to suffer a late miscarriage. She joins singer Lily Allen and Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden, swiftly reminding us that although we often look to beauty, fame and money with envy, where it really matters, celebrities are no different to the rest of us.

Kelly had known she was having a little girl. She had posted her excitement on Twitter, as seems to be de rigueur these days. And although it was an unexpected pregnancy, she was full on for it. At 31, this was no fleeting teenage accident, but a much wanted start to a family.

She had met rugby-playing boyfriend Thom Evans and fallen head over heels. For her, the pregnancy was the icing on the cake rather than a premature event.

For many women, once they see their "bump" their baby is almost here.

They have felt it moving, may have named it, planned a nursery, certainly checked out cute clothes and sturdy strollers.

They are, as nature intended, fully engaged with the prospect of motherhood. So to miscarry at five, six or seven months, as these women did, is nothing but devastating. They lost a real baby, not just a foetus.

Hopefully, all are healthy and will go on to have more children, but as anyone who has ever suffered a loss will tell you, one never replaces the other.

You will always remember; you will grieve and wonder 'what if' for the rest of your life.

It's strange to think that for people like Kelly, Amanda and Lily, whom we imagine so much comes to at the click of a finger, the one thing nobody can do for them is the one thing they want: a safe, healthy delivery.

Because she is well known and beautiful, Kelly had already been pencilled in for maternity photo-shoots, modelling assignments and even to design a babywear label. Such is the life of a famous person.

None of that will happen now, and Kelly will recover eventually, but instead of being allowed to curl up in a ball, lock the door and forget about life for a while, she will be under pressure, as were Amanda and Lily, to "present" herself in public -- put on a good face and keep the 'brand' going.

So, we get to feel sorry for them, but they cannot do the same for themselves.

When she found out about her surprise pregnancy Kelly said: "That is what happens when you are in love -- you surrender to whatever is to be. It wasn't a plan, but if it happened."

The same is sadly true now, but hopefully Kelly, and all women who survive miscarriage find that life does indeed go on, and they will experience the joy of motherhood again.

- Sinead Ryan