Love Island star currently ‘fighting for her life’ during traumatic pregnancy
'I was bedridden and broken'
Love Island Australia star Phoebe Thompson has revealed that she’s been “fighting for her life” during the first trimester of pregnancy.
The Love Island Australia star revealed the reason for her absence on social media on Monday, explaining: “I was fighting for my life in the first trimester.
“A year ago I was manifesting my dream life and God delivered. I was blessed with a healthy baby but also a pregnancy that would test every part of me.”
She explained it was important to her that she didn’t “sugarcoat” her experience of being pregnant and that for many woman pregnancy isn’t all “glow and rainbows.”
She continued: “It can feel like 10 months of Survivor: Vomiting, gagging, nutrient-depleted, mentally broken over the toilet bowl at three am.”
She added: “The past few months have humbled me in ways I didn’t know possible. I’ve felt excited, scared, grateful, lost and helpless all at once. It wasn’t morning sickness – it was all day and night.”
Phoebe recalled her experience with prenatal depression, emotionally admitting she became “bedridden and broken” and “didn’t recognise herself.”
She wrote: “Why couldn’t I embrace the miracle? I carried guilt for not loving pregnancy. I questioned my worth, my strength, my ability to be a mum.
“Watching my body change, expand, not fitting any clothes, it’s been a mental trip on a bumpy road.
“Pregnancy, birth and motherhood is a spiritual initiation. It will crack you open. And no one will fully understand that transformation unless they’ve lived it.”
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