Devastated Gemma Collins reveals she was told to end pregnancy after discovering unborn baby was intersex

GEMMA Collins has told of her devastation after being advised to terminate her pregnancy after discovering her baby was intersex.

The TOWIE stalwart sobbed as she candidly opened up on the medical instruction after suffering three previous miscarriages.

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Gemma, 43, has made no secret of her desire to become a mum with partner Rami Hawash, 49.

She has always been frank about her desire for a family.

She said on the Everything I Know About Me podcast: “Something is not right, they said to me your baby could be a hermaphrodite.

“You can imagine I had no idea what the word was. I had to look it up. It was a real shock.

“They advised me you need to have a termination because this baby is not going to be right.”

Gemma got tearful as she added: “In a single instant, I learned that I’d been carrying a baby and lost it, meaning that once again I found my longstanding dreams of motherhood shattered into pieces.”

“You can imagine I had no idea what the word was. I had to look it up. It was a real shock

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An intersex, formerly known as an hermaphrodite, is where both male and female gonads are present.

There are an estimated 30,000 intersex people in the UK with around one in 2,000 pregnancies affected.

Gemma sadly suffered her first miscarriage in 2012, with the second eight years later.

Later on in 2020, she suffered a second miscarriage in that same year during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mum mission

Just this week, the GC admitted she was still “holding onto the dream” of becoming a mum.

The star, who has polycystic ovary syndrome, said: “I pray every night that everything’s going to work out for me.

“Having a miscarriage with someone you love very much was very heartbreaking.”

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a common condition that means the ovaries do not regularly release eggs and can make pregnancy difficult.

Gemma’s baby hopes were given a boost in December when F Word chef Gordon Ramsay’s wife Tana, 49, gave birth to their sixth child.

At the time, she said: “The Tana Ramsay news was the greatest thing to wake up to. Incredible.”

“It really made me think positively about my future and kind of took the pressure off.

“I don’t think anyone knew she was pregnant, so it was a lovely surprise, but I got butterflies in my stomach when I saw it.”