Gemma Collins shares heartbreak of third miscarriage in open letter to Meghan Markle
Gemma Collins has told that she suffered a third miscarriage in July, penning an open letter to the Duchess of Sussex following the news that she and Prince Harry had lost their second child
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Gemma Collins has written a heartbreaking open letter to Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, after the revelation that she suffered a miscarriage over the summer.
Meghan revealed yesterday in a piece for The New York Times that she had lost hers and Prince Harry's second child together in July.
Meghan, who's mum to one-year-old Archie, wrote that as she "clutched my firstborn child, I knew I was losing my second."
Gemma shared earlier this year that she had had two miscarriages, one during the first lockdown.
And now she's reached out to the Duchess to tell that she had a third, also in July, when she didn't know she was pregnant with ex James Argent's baby.
Writing in The Sun, Gemma addressed Meghan by her first name.
"Dear Meghan, I hope you don't mind me writing to you like this," she began, "You don't know me, and we've never met, but I cried when I read what you'd written about your miscarriage yesterday.
"Your sadness and grief leapt out of the page, along with your desire to comfort other women who have been through the same heartbreak.
"I am one of those women. Because like you I also had a miscarriage in July - one of the ten or twenty women in a room of a hundred that you wrote about who will know the particular pain of losing a longed-for baby."
Gemma said she's been trying for a baby for 10 years, but has had her "hopes dashed time and again by first one miscarriage, then another."
She sought out a doctor on the insistence of her sister after suffering cramps that she'd dismissed as period symptoms.
But the doctor sent her to the hospital - where she was told she'd had a miscarriage.
"In a single instant," Gemma continued, "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."
She went on to recall her first miscarriage that took place eight years ago, and her struggle to put on a "brave face" for the spotlight while burdened by "unbearable grief."
Gemma rounded off the letter by thanking Meghan for her honesty, after insisting that "miscarriages don't discriminate, and the pain is all the same for us."
She also vowed not to give up on her dreams of motherhood.
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