Gemma Collins Reveals Her Doctors Advised Her to Have an Abortion On Discovering It was Intersex

Gemma Collins has disclosed that upon learning that her expectant child was intersex, her doctors advised her to terminate the pregnancy.

Currently, the audio series Everything I Know About Me features the life story of the former The Only Way is Essex star.

Collins, 42, discussed her anonymous then-boyfriend’s pressure to terminate her pregnancy when she was in her early twenties in the show’s second episode, which aired on Thursday, May 9th.

“I got pregnant, which was a real shock – it wasn’t planned,” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh, I’m pregnant,’ and he was like, he had this really funny look about him. I just remember him not being there, he wasn’t interested.”

Collins described her emotions as “really heartbroken” upon learning of her boyfriend’s infidelity; “because I was pregnant, and he was having an affair. That’s a lot to deal with at age.”

But things got even more complicated when her doctors expressed worry following a prenatal scan.

The medical staff told Collins, “Something’s not right,” when she visited the doctor.

“It could only happen to me. Not only has the stockbroker boyfriend met someone else, and is already off…”Your baby, from looking at it, could be a hermaphrodite,” they told me.

The term “hermaphrodite” is considered outdated now, with “intersex” being the accepted term for a human with both male and female biological traits, including chromosomes, internal organs and genitals.

She continued: “You could imagine, I didn’t know what the word was, I had to look it up. I’d never been taught about hermaphrodites – didn’t know what they were! Didn’t know they existed!”

“So that was a real shock. I can remember coming out, and they advised me: ‘You need to have a termination because this baby’s not gonna be right.’”

Collins has openly expressed her wish to start a family, and in 2020 she talked about how she had a miscarriage at a time she was unaware she was pregnant.

She said she and her long-term partner, Rami Hawash, would like to start a family someday, and they are currently engaged.