The 31-year-old and her husband of six years, Alex, 33 – who met on series two of Love Island back in 2016 – had been thrilled to find out they were expecting twins just before Christmas.Despite having twins in her family, Olivia never considered she would end up carrying them herself and was left in total surprise by the news, having only ever wanted two children.
But her and Alex’s overwhelming joy soon turned to sadness when they discovered they had lost one of the babies at only eight weeks.
Now, in an incredibly emotional interview on Kelsey Parker and Georgia Jones’ Mum’s the Word! podcast, Olivia bravely opened up to Kelsey, who lost her husband Tom Parker back in March 2022, on the loss of one of her twins mid-pregnancy.
As she held back tears, Olivia, who experienced vanishing twin syndrome, candidly admitted to Kelsey: “I felt like I didn’t want twins.“I felt like I wasn’t gonna handle it and I didn’t feel like I was enough to handle it or have it.
“I feel like it was taken from me because I wasn’t ready for it and I wasn’t the person to do it.”
Whilst Danny Jones‘ wife Georgia missed the podcast appearance after the drunken Brits kiss’ with Maura Higgins, Olivia’s voice cracked and her eyes welled up, as she continued: “And I feel like I caused it to myself because I told myself I couldn’t do it.
“We went to this scan, and one didn’t have a heartbeatv
“You could see it was so tiny compared to the other one.”
Whilst studies suggest vanishing twin syndrome happens in around 36% of twin pregnancies, holding back tears, the reality TV star confessed: “She’s there telling me that we’ve got this healthy little baby that’s thriving and then she’s like, ‘this one’s dead, you’ve got one baby that isn’t alive’.”
Understandably distraught, the mum-of-one, who recently got candid on struggling postnatally after having her first child Abel and is now expecting a baby girl, recognised: “I don’t even know how you’re meant to fathom that. Am I meant to be happy? Am I meant to be sad?
“I feel so guilty. I said I couldn’t do it, so now is that why we’ve not got it?”
The clip, which was shared on the @mumstheword_pod official TikTok and Instagram accounts, has clearly left many open-mouthed, as it has quickly racked up one million views and over 8,300 likes in just one day.
Olivia’s fans eagerly rushed to the comments, desperate to share messages of love and support for the pregnant mother.