Model and presenter Vogue Williams has candidly shared her experience of suffering two pregnancy losses. The 40-year-old revealed the first occurred before the birth of her daughter Gigi in 2020, with the second taking place last year.
Speaking on her YouTube channel, What Does She Even Do?, Williams discussed the deeply personal events, following the announcement on Thursday that she and her husband, Spencer Matthews, are expecting their fourth child. The couple are already parents to Gigi, Otto, and Theodore.
Addressing the sensitive topic, Williams began with a trigger warning: "Trigger warning, pregnancy loss, if anyone doesn’t want to watch, don’t." She recounted the first loss: "So it happened to me before I had Gigi, not just me, it happened to Spencer as well obviously, and it was so early on, like so, so early on, we hadn’t had any scans, we hadn’t anything like that, and I must have been maybe a month, if even and it was just one of those things."
She described it as "awful but everything happened quite quickly after it as well, so I never really kind of thought about it much." Williams added: "It was really upsetting at the time but then I was pregnant quite quickly after."
The second loss, however, was more advanced. "But it actually happened to me last year as well, and it was just, I was literally about to tell the kids… you could kind of start telling I was three months, I just didn’t go for an early scan. I just never even thought about it because I kind of didn’t want to make a fuss."
Williams explained she felt "quite sick" but "not as sick as I would usually feel during pregnancy," before discovering that "basically the embryo hadn’t grown." She continued: "Usually you just naturally get a miscarriage, but I didn’t, it just kept like it would have eventually happened, but it just didn’t at the time, and I was three months along, and (the doctor) was just like, I’m really sorry… it’s not really a pregnancy."
These experiences have left her feeling "nervous" about her current pregnancy, though she expressed gratitude for a common symptom: "grateful that I feel so sick all the time because then I know it’s there." She admitted: "I wasn’t sure if we wanted to try again because I just felt like I really don’t want to have to go through that again."
Despite her reservations, she is glad they did. "I’m glad we did, obviously, but now I just have this constant nervousness around hoping that everything is going to be all right."
The Irish star announced her latest pregnancy on Instagram, sharing a picture of herself with Matthews, 37, pushing their stomachs together in beach attire, clearly showing her baby bump. The couple married in June 2018, having met the previous year during filming for the Channel 4 programme The Jump. Williams was also a late entry into last year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and won the celebrity version of Gladiators.
