Olivia and Alex Bowen – the primary Love Island couple to marry – spoke out following their vanishing twin syndrome ordeal, which noticed the tragic lack of one in all their infants

Love Island’s Olivia Bowen has described how she “felt numb” after shedding one in all her twins.

The fact TV star, who tied the knot with Alex in 2018 in what was the primary Love Island marriage, endured vanishing twin syndrome (VTS), a miscarriage which causes a being pregnant involving twins to turn into a being pregnant involving one embryo. She went on to provide beginning to Sienna final month, albeit having misplaced the opposite child.

Talking for the primary time in regards to the tragedy, Olivia, 31, stated: “I felt numb initially then I wanted to speak. However I attempt to not take something destructive from it any extra – we’re fortunate to nonetheless have Siena right here.

“We went for the eight-week scan and as quickly as she confirmed us my stomach, you can see there was no heartbeat and no motion from one in all them. I couldn’t have a look at Alex as a result of I knew he’d be heartbroken. It was such a shock as a result of there’d been no indicators.”

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VTS impacts as much as 15-35% of dual pregnancies, analysis suggests. Olivia, from Chelmsford, Essex, skilled an in any other case wholesome being pregnant till the crushing information earlier this yr.

Recalling the ordeal, Alex, 34, stated this week: “It (grief) all the time hits me actually arduous right away. I took myself off to the lavatory to cry (upon being instructed the information) as a result of I might see how a lot ache she was in.” When Alex discovered he was going to be a dad to twins, he described the second because the “most superb feeling”.

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Olivia, who met Alex on the second collection of Love Island in 2015, was admitted for an emergency caesarean part. The fact TV star misplaced misplaced 2.8 litres of blood as she gave beginning to Sienna, their second little one after son Abel was born in June 2022.

Talking within the new interview with the Day by day Mail, Olivia continued: “I misplaced 2.8 litres of blood. We didn’t know what was going to occur however we bought right here safely ultimately. You realise what you’ve bought and what issues. You realise how fragile every little thing is.”

The couple say the grief has introduced them stronger, almost ten years after assembly on the ITV programme. Alex arrived on day 18 as “a bombshell” and Olivia coupled up with him two days later, with them happening to complete as runners-up on the present.

Praising the worth of dedication and grit, Alex stated this week: “We’re not quitters. When instances are powerful, we simply work via them.”