Mum-of-two Emma Weymouth is currently hoping to impress with her culinary creations on Celebrity Masterchef.
However, away from the kitchen, the star has opened up about spending £60,000 on a surrogate for her second pregnancy.
Emma said it was because she almost died when giving birth to her first son, John.
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The former Strictly star revealed that she suffered a bleed on the brain in the third trimester of her pregnancy and, when it came to trying for son Henry, Emma and her husband Caewlin Thynn looked to a surrogate to carry the baby.
I had a bleed on my brain. The doctor’s trying to save my life, and I’m trying to save my baby.
She told The Sunday Times that she suffered from a condition called hypophysitis, a rare inflammation of the pituitary gland which left her unable to get out of bed or breathe.
Emma was rushed into hospital where she underwent an emergency C-section to have John, now five, with doctors battling to save her life.
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“I had a bleed on my brain. The doctor’s trying to save my life, and I’m trying to save my baby,” she said.
Calling the experience “horrendous”, Emma added that as “putting my own life at risk wasn’t an option”, they paid £60k for an American surrogate.
“I got very, very frightened of everything,” she said.
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Both Emma and Caewlin were present at the birth and Henry is now two.
Celebrity MasterChef airs on BBC One London at 8:00 PM, Thursday 29 August.
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