Former The Only Way Is Essex star Chloe Lewis has revealed she lost one of her twins eight weeks into her pregnancy.
Chloe, who is expecting her first child with boyfriend of two years Danny Flasher, announced she was pregnant in late May with a picture of a baby scan.
However, the reality TV star has now revealed she was expecting twins, but didn’t realise until she suffered a miscarriage.
Chloe, 28, said she was left terrified when she began bleeding in the middle of the night.
“The next day I booked a scan with a private doctor, and she said: ‘There’s baby number one and baby number two.’ I was shocked,” Chloe told OK! magazine.
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“But then she said she could only see one of the embryos, so it was either behind the other or I had lost it. I told her about the bleeding and she said that I probably had lost it.”
Doctors later confirmed Chloe had been expecting identical twins but had tragically lost one.
“That was so sad for me to hear. I kept thinking this one is going to come out and they would have looked exactly the same,” she said.
The reality star struggled to come to terms with the loss and “grieved for about three months”.
She added to OK! mag: “I felt like I had gone into a hole, like I had lost a child. I felt like I had done something wrong because it was my body. Was I going to the gym too much? You start questioning yourself.”
Chloe, who is due to give birth soon, said boyfriend Danny helped her through the grief.
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“It wasn’t until Danny said, ‘Chloe, you’ve got to snap out of this, you’ve got one healthy baby, not everyone gets this.'”
It comes after Chloe was thrown a lavish baby shower, which was attended by close friends and family.
A host of her fellow TOWIE stars were also in attendance, including Georgia Kousoulou, Chloe Ross, Chloe Meadows, Shelby Tribble and pregnant Lucy Mecklenburgh.
The TOWIE star also recently revealed she’s decided not to find out the sex of her baby, telling fans, “So yesterday we got to see our baby,” before asking, “What are we thinking boy or girl?”
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