Gemma Collins' has shared a heartbreaking update on her baby dream. The former Towie star has been honest about her fertility struggles in the past after having several miscarriages revealing how she was once advised to terminate a pregnancy of an intersex baby. She has now said that she is considering fostering after she was told to terminate a pregnancy in her twenties.
The 43-year-old said that she was advised to terminate the pregnancy as doctors told her the foetus was intersex. Intersex is a term used to describe people with sex characteristics that fall outside of the typical male or female. These characteristics can include variations in chromosomes, genitals, reproductive organs, and secondary sex traits.
Gemma 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." 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.
" The term hermaphrodite is outdated and comes from mythology. It is preferably not used among people who are intersex. Gemma revealed today that she wants to become a foster carer.
During an interview on Good Morning Britain , Gemma explained that her mum was fostered as a child and .