Everything about her – from her defiantly unpolished appearance and no-nonsense demeanour to her job as an administrator for a shipping firm – is resolutely ordinary, with no hint she has spent her entire life in the spotlight.
Yet Louise was the first baby to be born as the result of in vitro fertilisation, and as a result of this unique aspect of her existence she has shared every milestone with the world, from her first birthday to the birth of her son, Cameron.
That she has managed to emerge from it all so utterly down-to-earth is testimony, she knows now better than ever, to the happiness and stability of her upbringing.
For the 33-year-old is going through perhaps the most difficult rite of passage of all. Earlier this month, her mother Lesley died suddenly, after developing septicaemia while being treated in hospital for gallstones.
The pair were exceptionally close, especially so since the death five years ago of her father, John, from lung cancer.
Everybody who has lost a loved one can identify with Louise's grief. Yet the circumstances of her birth gave the bond with her mother a special intensity, and make Lesley's death at 64 particularly poignant.
It was Lesley's desperation to become a mother that led her to take a chance with an experimental procedure that had never previously worked for other couples.
She was a shy, self-effacing woman, but with a bravery and determination that changed history.
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