Former TOWIE star Gemma Collins made a heartbreaking admission recently about a past pregnancy she was advised to terminate.
The 45-year-old opened up about the sad incident during a recent podcast episode.
Gemma Collins talks intersex baby
During a recent episode of the MailOnline’s podcast, Everything I Know About Me, Gemma spoke about the time she terminated a pregnancy.
In the episode, Gemma spoke about how she fell pregnant when she was in her twenties with an ex-boyfriend.
Gemma explained how she went to the doctors while pregnant, who told her “something could be wrong”.
The 43-year-old then went on to say that doctors had told her that her baby could be a “hermaphrodite”.
‘Hermaphrodite’ is no longer a term that is used. Instead, the proper medical term is intersex.
People who are intersex have genitals, chromosomes, or reproductive organs that don’t fit into a male/female sex binary, according to Cleveland Clinic.
Gemma Collins opens up on intersex baby
Gemma then continued, saying: “I mean, you can imagine. I didn’t know what the word was. I had to look it up. I’d never been taught about ‘hermaphrodites’. Didn’t know what they were. Didn’t know that they existed. So that was a real shock.”
She then went on to say: “They had advised me, ‘You need to have a termination, because this baby’s not going to be right’,” she said.
Gemma continued, explaining how she’d gone to have the termination, went home, argued with her boyfriend, and broke up with him.
Speaking about the baby, she said it was “sad” but “wasn’t meant to be”.
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Gemma opens up over struggling to conceive
Over the years, the TOWIE star has opened up over struggling to conceive while facing Polycycstic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and having low AMH levels, meaning she has a limited number of eggs available.
She has been candid about her desire to have children and previously revealed she tragically faced three miscarriages. She suffered her first loss in 2012, and found the courage to speak about it years later in 2020.
Gemma revealed she didn’t realise she was pregnant at the time, and how the baby tragically “died in front of her” after she gave birth on her landing. The reality star suffered her second pregnancy loss in 2020 during the pandemic. Tragically, she suffered another months later after falling pregnant with ex-boyfriend James Argent’s baby.
Gemma and businessman Rami Hawash in 2024, and the couple have said they’ve considered fostering and surrogacy.
She told OK! Magazine: “I always find with me nothing has ever come easy. I’ve always been that one that’s got the struggle to bloody get there!
‘It’s the same with my fertility and I share it because so many people reach out who are going through the same thing.”
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