Anorexia left me with a four-year wait to conceive
CHRISTINE McGuinness has opened up about the terrifying moment she thought she had miscarried her twins after an anorexia battle as a child left her struggling to conceive for four years.
The Real Housewives of Cheshire star is married to TV host Paddy McGuinness and the couple share six-year-old twins Leo and Penelope and three-year-old Felicity.
When speaking on the Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast by Giovanna Fletcher, Christine said that she feared she had lost her babies at three months pregnant.
“There’s one part, I’ll never ever forget. I still get emotional thinking about it,” the 31-year-old began.
“I thought I lost the twins and I think just after trying for so long, the thought of losing them, it broke my heart. Thank god they were absolutely fine.”
She added: “You can bleed through your pregnancy but the thought of losing them, I’d already fallen in love with them. These were babies to me and for people that that does happen to, god I can’t imagine how that must be.”
The heartbreaking moment came after a four-year struggle to fall pregnant.
Christine said that it took her a while to conceive after she stopped ovulating and having periods following a 10-year eating disorder as a child.
“I had anorexia for over 10 years as a child, all through my teenage years, [and was getting better] when I met my husband aged 19, 20,” she explained.
“It was that strive, and I just really wanted to be a mum, that made me get over that.
“When I went to see a doctor, the reason I wasn’t ovulating or having my periods was down to having an eating disorder. That made me get better but it took four years for everything to regulate.
“You’re tracking your chart and your temperature. My husband works away a lot so we had to make the most of our time together.”
When she did finally discover the happy news, Christine said she took 20 tests before she could accept she was actually pregnant.
Christine and Take Me Out presenter Paddy married in 2011 and Penelope and Leo were born in 2013, followed by Felicity in 2016.
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