Callie Rogers expecting twins: £2m lottery winner shows off her baby bump and tattoo

By
Paul Sims

18:01 EST, 30 April 2012

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19:53 EST, 30 April 2012

Expecting twins: Teenage jackpot winner Callie Rogers, now 25, poses for Closer magazine

Expecting twins: Teenage jackpot winner Callie Rogers, now 25, poses for Closer magazine

When Callie Rogers won £1.9million on the lottery aged 16, a happy future seemed assured.

However, the teenager’s jackpot win left her life in tatters after she squandered it on drugs and partying.

Now aged 25, Miss Rogers is pregnant with twins – and has posed naked for a magazine shoot showing off her tattooed baby bump.

And she insists her life has now changed for the better, saying: ‘I might not have any of my millions left but, for the first time in my life, I really do feel like I’ve won the lottery.’

She was in foster care and earning £3.60 an hour as a shop assistant when she won the jackpot in 2003.

A fortnight later she met Nicky Lawson, 29, and the couple went on to have a son, now seven, and daughter, now four.

But unable to cope with her instant wealth, her life ran out of control.

Her money went on properties, cars, holidays and gifts for friends, and she spent thousands on breast enlargements.

‘I made bad choices with men and was partying to the point where I was totally out of control,’ she added.

She attempted suicide three times and lost custody of the children when she and Mr Lawson split in 2010.

Now she has £40,000 left and is living in a rented home in Workington, Cumbria.

But she says she is happier than ever to be expecting identical twin boys in three weeks with her new partner, fireman Paul Penny, 33.

She told Closer magazine: ‘We didn’t plan a baby, let alone two, but I’m truly the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. I’ve finally grown up and said goodbye to my troubled past.

‘I have about £40,000 left but after that all my money is gone. But I’m really not worrying about it. I just don’t desire material things like I used to.’

Sixteen-year-old Callie Rogers, then from Cockermouth in Cumbria celebrating her win in 2003

Sixteen-year-old Callie Rogers, then from Cockermouth in Cumbria celebrating her win in 2003

She added: ‘I’m so excited about having my boys. It’s the best gift anyone could ever have given me and far better than ever winning the jackpot.

‘It’s like I have been given another chance at happiness and for that I am extremely grateful.’

* The full feature appears in this week’s Closer magazine, on sale now.

The cover of this week's Closer magazine features Callie Rogers

The cover of this week’s Closer magazine features Callie Rogers

 

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Aren’t tattoos horrible? especially on women.

Real class act with wonderful tats.

JANDOR, LEICESTER, UK, 1/5/2012 10:30 – Yes I can see how you might spend the money, but buying things usually means that they have an ongoing residual value, especially property which even if it loses value will still be worth near to it’s purchase value, as she only has £40K left and is living in rented accomodation indicates that she hasn’t done this.

Why do women disfigure themselves like that! vile.

The photograph says it all!

Ewwwwwww !!!!

How do you just blow £1.9M?? If I were lucky enough to win that sort of money my first purchase would be a one way ticket to somewhere else, where I could have a reasonable quality of life without being taxed till the pips squealed and where I could bring my children up safely in a society that respects people for their value and not just how much they earn or how much they appear in the media – not much to ask is it?
– SeethingYou could spend a quarter of it or more just on a house! A big house usually comes with big bills to run it. Around £100,000K or more on a couple of posh cars the cost of running them. A few expensive holidays with unlimited spending money, designer clothes jewellery etc. Indiscriminate splashing out would soon diminish the capital amount faster than you think!

There are some seriously judgemental and bitter people on here. You’ve all had the perfect life have you? Never made mistakes? You haven’t got a clue what she’s been through, we don’t all grow up with lovely supportive parents you know, and she was only 16 – A CHILD! As for calling her disgusting for having tattoos, I’m sure we could all pick holes in your perfect features too. Jesus Christ, she’s trying to turn her life around and you know what, so far, she seems to be turning into a much better person than all you nasty, small minded, judgemental idiots.

Ugh!!

A pregnant woman is one of the most beautiful sights on eart—- A tatooed one is an abomination!!!

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