My guilt over opting for a ‘too posh too push’ caesarean, by Denise Van Outen

DENISE Van Outen has admitted she still feels ‘guilty’ for choosing to have a caesarean.

The singer said before her daughter, now seven, was born, she ‘felt uncomfortable telling people I was going to have a C-section because you feel like you’re being judged’.

She added: ‘Also there’s this whole stigma thing about too posh to push, but people have different reasons for doing it.’

Miss Van Outen, 43, revealed she decided to have a caesarean because her mother, sister and best friend all experienced ‘ traumatic’ natural births. But she admitted she still feels ‘judged’, saying: ‘Even now, if I were to fall pregnant again, I would want to have a natural birth because I still feel guilty.’

She had her daughter Betsy with former husband Lee Mead, the musical theatre star, in 2010.

Talking on ITV’s Loose Women yesterday, Miss Van Outen said: ‘My sister had two very traumatic births that ended in an emergency C-section and it put the fear of God in me. And when I got pregnant, I was so stressed.’

She added: ‘Lee and I decided we were going to have Betsy privately so, in that situation, we were lucky enough to be able to choose.

‘And I hold my hands up – I went for an elective caesarean because my mum almost died giving birth, I saw what my sister went through and I was so scared.’

Her best friend also had to be rushed to hospital after complications during a home birth.