Gemma Collins reveals she gave birth on her landing as she opens up about heart-breaking miscarriage
The bubbly blonde headed to the Soap Awards straight away afterwards despite bleeding heavily
GEMMA Collins has opened up about suffering a miscarriage at four and a half months pregnant.
The 35-year-old has spoken about her ordeal which occurred in 2012 as part of the Channel 5 show In Therapy.
The Towie star revealed that she ended up giving birth on her landing before heading straight to the National Television Awards.
Speaking to Mandy Saligari on the show, an emotional Gemma revealed she didn't even know she was pregnant.
“I woke up with excruciating pains. My mum was like, ‘You’ve got a bad stomach’, and I’m thinking, ‘Nah, something’s not right here'," she revealed.
“I rang an ambulance. I ended up giving birth on my landing to this four and a half month old baby.”
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Welling up, she continued: “The next minute they put me in the ambulance and this woman is going to me, 'Do you want to bury your baby? Do you want to sign it over for scientific research?'
“My mum started crying, but I knew I had to go and perform at the National Television Awards. I had loads of padding on because I was bleeding heavily, but to the outside world they wouldn't know.”
And speaking about the domestic abuse she suffered over the years, she added: “I felt guilty. I used to feel so empty. I had this terrible feeling inside me and the more I ate, the more it went away.”
The bubbly blonde previously spoke about her miscarriage in her autobiography Basically – admitting that she was thought it was “God’s way” of punishing her for a previous abortion.
Gemma fell pregnant when she was in a five- year relationship with a City Banker and she was unaware that she was expecting as she was taking the contraceptive pill at the time.
She had even taken additional medication for her “upset tummy” leading several doctors to advise her that the foetus could have been harmed.
Speaking about it back in 2013, she said: “I didn’t know I was pregnant because I’ve got polycystic ovaries.
“The doctor said the embryo wouldn’t be a good one because I’d been taking medication. I got three doctors’ opinions – I still felt really guilty about it, though.”
She added: “I do feel guilty. What if I can never have a baby now? The miscarriage felt like God’s way of punishing me.”
In Therapy airs July 5th at 10pm on Channel 5.
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