Safiyya Vorajee soaks up the sun in Dubai as she shares touching tribute to her late daughter Azaylia

Daily Mail​

30-05-2025

Safiyya Vorajee paid tribute to her late daughter Azalyia while on holiday in Dubai.
An Instagram post shared by the influencer, 34, on Friday revealed she had enjoyed a getaway to the lavish Burj Al Arab hotel.
Posing in a coastal swimming pool with a picturesque sunset behind her, the beauty reclined in an animal print swimsuit.
As Safiyya gazed up at the sky in a final snap, she told her followers that's how she remembers her daughter Azaylia, who died in 2021 at just eight months old.
The touching caption read: 'You'll always find me looking up at the sky because that's where my favourite person in the world lives.'
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Azaylia, who Safiyya shares with former footballer Ashley Cain, 34, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at just eight weeks old which left her with tumours on her lungs, stomach and kidneys.
She underwent several rounds of chemotherapy but unfortunately lost her life on 24 April 2021 after a courageous battle.
Safiyya and Ashley, who have since split, launched The Azaylia Foundation following the loss of their daughter - a charity aimed at helping families going through similar struggles.
The foundation has since raised more than £1.5million, with its founders winning a number of awards for their work with the charity.
Just a matter of days ago Safiyya revealed she is at last ready to 'live her life' again after the unimaginable heartache she suffered four years ago.
Accompanying a photo of her relaxing on a plane the 34-year-old penned: 'I love being up here with you.
'At the start of this year, I promised myself to try and live again, not just survive, but to truly find happiness even when I didn't know where to begin. I started small, with a routine, and every time I fell, I chose to rise again. You don't recover overnight. It's taken me years to even reach this point.
'I've worked deeply on myself, my healing, my purpose, my work, my body, and my mind. Five months into the year and I'm proud of how little I've fallen since making that promise to myself. Grief will forever live within me, but so does growth, strength, and self-love.
'Let me show you there is something in life called a rebirth. It's when pain doesn't break you forever, it transforms you. It's when you honour your past but choose to embrace life again (with my angel beside me)'
'Before flying to Dubai, I visited Azaylia's garden. I said my prayers with a heavy heart, always feeling the ache of not having her here or being able to share holidays together . But in the sky, I felt her with me. That connection is all I have, and it's enough to keep me going.'
On a similar note, Safiyya told MailOnline in an exclusive interview in late-2024 that she finally feels ready to have another child after the death of her first daughter.
It came after Ashley became a father for the third time last year, having welcomed a son called Aliyas with a mystery woman and another named Atlas last year.
It is not known if Atlas's mother is the same woman.
Accompanying a photo of her travelling to Dubai, just a matter of days ago Safiyya revealed she is at last ready to 'live her life' again after the unimaginable heartache she suffered four years ago
Safiyya said: 'I think what you do with grief is learn how to carry it, and for me, always turning pain into purpose allows me to feel stronger.
'Every day is hard when you wake up in the morning, and it's just creating measures and putting different boundaries in place.
'As long as I'm continuing Azaylia's legacy, they're the things that actually carry me through.'
She added: 'For me it (the idea of having more children) always goes round in circles in my mind, because it's a really scary thing for me, but I always believe that if I'm with the right person, I don't shut it down now,' she said.
'I'm open to that as well. I'm open to rebuilding our family and a home, and if I don't find the right man then I won't be, but I am open to that in the future.'
And the star is taking things seriously, even exploring the option of freezing her eggs although she explained that a doctor told her it wasn't necessary.
She told MailOnline: 'I actually went to one of the people who freezes your eggs, and basically, he told me that it's not necessary for me to freeze my eggs right now.
'I don't know the ins and outs, and I need to get more information, but he told me that if he took the eggs out, and I then tried to get pregnant with my next partner, then it could be the fact that there's not enough fertile eggs in there where you could get pregnant at this age.