Radio host Jackie “O” Henderson has revealed she had an aboortion while dating her now ex-husband Lee Henderson. In her tell-all memoir The Whole Truth , Henderson wrote that she “unexpectedly” fell pregnant when aged about 26. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Jackie O bravely shares drug addiction.
She was soon to marry her now ex-husband, a photographer hailing from the UK, but Henderson explains they felt they were “young and growing” and not ready to start a family. “I was unexpectedly pregnant. It was morning sickness.
But I wasn’t remotely ready for motherhood,” she wrote. “It was an incredibly tough decision, but — through tears — we made the one we felt was right. Because we weren’t ready.
We just weren’t.” Henderson wrote of sitting in the waiting room of a family planning clinic in Woollahra for 10 minutes before committing to the procedure. “It’s all so quick, so sober, so perfunctory.
You wake up, and that’s emotional. I know there were tears on my face, definitely, and if I think about it deeply all these years later, even for a moment, there are tears now, too,” she recalled. She said becoming a mother to her daughter Kitty, 13, made the decision all the more emotional.
“You try not to beat yourself up too much, but you do the maths every year. I don’t know why, but I always thought it was a boy. “A son.
My son would be turning 23 this year.” Years after the abortion, the couple struggled to conceive and went through several r.