Gemma Collins reveals heartbreaking details of miscarriage
She was four and a half months pregnant
Reality TV favourite Gemma Collins has made no secret of her dreams of becoming a mum, but she has now opened up about suffering a devastating miscarriage in 2012.
Speaking on her podcast, the TOWIE legend revealed that she had been four and a half months pregnant when she found out she’d lost the baby. She said, “I’ve had some shocking things happen to me, I’m not sure I’ve spoken about this before.
"But I actually gave birth to a child, sadly, and basically the child was four months old, basically I had a miscarriage but obviously the baby was formed and it died in front of me."
She continued, "I had to go to the hospital and my mum was there. I can remember my mum being really upset, I was in shock, I was upset.
“I’ll never forget it, it was a very traumatising experience because I didn’t know I was pregnant and literally I remember waking up with severe pains and my mum said to me, ‘Gemma you need to go to the toilet,’ and I was like: ‘Honey, this is not…’ I mean obviously I couldn’t describe…"
"Look, I try and find the bit of entertainment in this bad situation because I think that’s probably a coping mechanism of mine, I try to laugh or see a brighter side in things even though it was really traumatic."
She concluded, "So anything you could tell me now wouldn’t shock me because I’ve been through a lot and I've dealt with a lot but I’m grateful for those experiences because I can sit here today and relay them to other people."
Gemma’s on-off relationship with TOWIE co-star James Argent began back in 2012 and the couple have been very much an item since March 2019.
Back in 2017 Gemma opened up about her disappointment at being told she wouldn’t be able to freeze her eggs, telling the Loose Women, "They said, 'You know what, it's not going to work for you Gem, you've got a really low count'," giving her a one in ten chance that she could fall pregnant naturally.
"I was coming here to get my eggs frozen, I was planning to go out for drinks with my girls afterwards and then I was told it's not going to happen. I was actually going to throw an egg-freezing party on TOWIE."
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