Gemma Collins opened up on she was advised to terminate a pregnancy after learning her unborn baby was hermaphrodite.
She ‘tearfully’ revealed this during a candid interview on the new Everything I Know About Me podcast, as she claimed doctors advised her to end the pregnancy when she was in her twenties.
Hermaphrodite is Intersex Now
‘Hermaphrodite’ is a term that is no longer used because it to be deemed misleading and stigmatising. Instead, intersex, is the correct medical definition for an organism that produces both male and female reproductive organs.
In the episodes, the former TOWIE star also opens up on her struggles with self-harming during her teenage years, detailing how she would take slimming pills when she was just 13 years old after facing cruel jibes about her weight.
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Her Fertility Struggles
Gemma has been open about past fertility struggles and has previously suffered three miscarriages.
She suffered her first heartbreaking loss in 2012, finding the strength to speak out about it publicly eight years later in 2020.
The reality star did not realise she was pregnant at the time, said that the baby ‘died in front of her’ after giving birth at home on her landing.
Gemma suffered her second pregnancy loss in 2020 during the Covid pandemic.
Tragically, just a few months later, Gemma endured a third devastating miscarriage in July 2020 after falling pregnant with her ex-boyfriend James Argent’s baby.
