Perrie Edwards opens up on ‘worst day of my life’ for first time

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The previous Little Combine singer has spoken about her two miscarriages

Perrie Edwards(Picture: Lucy North/PA)

Former Little Combine singer Perrie Edwards has revealed for the primary time she had two miscarriages, describing the latest because the “worst day of my life”. The singer is finest generally known as a member of the pop group which gained The X Consider 2011 and topped the charts with Black Magic, Shout Out To My Ex and Wings.

Talking on the We Want To Discuss podcast with Paul C Brunson, 32-year-old Edwards mentioned her first miscarriage earlier than the start of her son Axel in 2021, occurred very early within the being pregnant. “I keep in mind discovering out I used to be pregnant. Clearly, I began bleeding not lengthy after, and I went to hospital and I had the scan they usually have been like, ‘There’s no child.’

“And I used to be like, ‘Oh, I’ve made this up. Perhaps I bought a false constructive or one thing’. I keep in mind being alone on the appointments.”

She went on to explain Axel – her son with fiancé Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, a former England footballer – as her “rainbow child”, a time period for a kid born after being pregnant loss. Lower than a yr after Axel’s start, Edwards grew to become pregnant once more.

“I used to be rehearsing for the final Little Combine tour, and I assumed, ‘I don’t really feel good’. Each symptom beneath the solar. I used to be like, ‘I believe I’m pregnant,’” she mentioned.

Perrie Edwards
Perrie Edwards described her second miscarriage as ‘the worst day of my life’(Picture: Yui Mok/PA)

However by 24 weeks, after Edwards had began planning the nursery, docs instructed the couple the infant had no heartbeat, in what the singer mentioned was the “worst day of my life”.

She mentioned: “It’s bizarre, as a result of the primary time it occurred, I believe as a result of it was so early, I used to be like, ‘Oh, that’s arduous’. However I believe while you’re 24 weeks and also you’ve deliberate out that room and all these items, it’s actually arduous. And no person is aware of apart from quick family and friends.”

Edwards, from South Shields in Tyneside, has been with former Liverpool and Arsenal midfielder Oxlade-Chamberlain since 2017 they usually grew to become engaged in 2022, the identical yr Little Combine went on hiatus and across the time Edwards suffered her second miscarriage. The group additionally included Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jesy Nelson and Jade Thirlwall.

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