Rebecca Adlington tears up as she discusses miscarriages, saying 'I hated my body' because it 'couldn't protect her children'. The professional swimmer joined the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast to discuss the toll it took on her mental health.
Swimming gold medalist Rebecca Adlington has revealed the heartbreak she went through with her family after the death of her stillborn daughter last year.
Speaking about the traumatic incident, she said: 'I couldn't help blaming myself. You analyse everything, but I'd done everything by the book — sleeping on my left side, not lying on my back, not eating this and that, no alcohol — and then this still happened. 'It was very hard for me to accept. I'm very logical so I wanted to find out why this had happened, but the post-mortem showed there was no reason; sometimes things just happen. I have to come to terms with that somehow and stop obsessing about it.'
She added: 'Afterwards I hated my body because it couldn't keep Harper alive. I felt it had let me down and I didn't look after myself: I wasn't exercising and eating badly.' The couple quickly fell in love and he moved from Liverpool to live with Adlington in Manchester in 2019. Adlington said her and Parsons were now both receiving counselling together and were 'not in a place to get pregnant now'Viewers were charmed by her enthusiastic and deep insights alongside Clare Balding and the former Olympic swimmer Mark Foster at the Paris Olympics
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