Mylene Klass has ‘changed the law and therein, history’ (Picture: Instagram / Myleene Klass)
Mylene Klass has made history as she succesfully campaigned for the law around miscarriages to be changed.
The I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! star is mum to daughters Ava, 14 and Hero, 10, with her ex Graham Quinn, and to son Apollo, two, with partner Simon Motson.
Former Hear’Say star Myleene has been open about suffering miscarriages while trying to have a baby with Simon, and previously appeared in documentary Miscarriage & Me.
The musician went through four pregnancy losses while trying to conceive, including having to endure one miscarriage while hosting her radio show.
Until now, expectant mothers would have to suffer through three miscarriages before being able to access care and support, however this is now set to change.
Mylene shared that she had teamed up with MP Olivia Blake, who she had met while filming the Miscarriage & Me documentary, and together with pregnancy loss charity Tommys, have ‘changed the law and therein, history.’
The star shared the impressive news on Instagram (Picture: Instagram / Myleene Klass)
She and MP Olivia Blake posed outside Westminster with signs (Picture: Instagram / Myleene Klass)
‘The world is officially a better place for women and their families because we never gave up,’ she wrote, alongside a snap of her outside Westminster holding a sign reading: ‘We did it!’
She and Olivia were ‘both battered and bruised from our [miscarriage] experiences but from that moment we joined forces and I became a campaigner for change to Miscarriage law and women’s health care.’
Myleene said women’s health has been ‘contentious, almost invisible,’ and miscarriage was ‘the final taboo.’ – and ‘change has to come from the top, from Government. Who knew our wombs are owned by Westminster?!’
The star is mum to three chilren, and had four miscarriages before welcoming son Apollo (Picture: @myleeneklass)
She explained that, from now on, ‘no woman will have to wait for 3 miscarriages to receive help, she will have access to her GP who will sign post her to mental health support. After her 2nd, she’ll have appointments and investigations, her 3rd, consultant led, specialist care (sic).’
Women will have 24/7 access to care, with GPs and medical staff to be retrained in line with Tommys’ model, as will the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and, eventually, the government’s implementation of the law.
Myleene went on to share her own difficult story and why the campaign meant so much to her personal, writing: ‘The personal side of this is 4 miscarriages along, pouring the heartache and frustration into fierce campaigning HAS WORKED. We have changed the future for so many mothers-to-be and babies to come.
‘This will all take time, but it’s officially confirmed and will be actioned.’
She paid tribute to Olivia, who she met when the idea of campaigning at a government level was ‘never a part of my plan yet but became my calling.’
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‘I couldn’t let it go. I wanted my children to see their mother turn her pain into power and the babies I never got to hold, to know they chose a mother who would fight to have their voices somehow heard.
‘I never dreamed those voices would resonate into the history books and their legacy would be the most powerful of all, real change.’
Myleene was celebrated by friends, fans and more in the comment of her major achievement, with Tommys charity writing it was an ‘incredible moment and huge milestone in our campaign for change,’ thanking her ‘for all that you do’.
The star has previously spoken of her work to lobby the government to change the current health system, and says it would be ‘easier to move on from this and just live my life but I owe it to my children, my friends and family who both stood by me and who also experienced this trauma themselves and ultimately to my angel babies, that their limited tiny heartbeats on this earth were not in vain.’
An estimated one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, and around one in 100 women in the UK experience recurrent miscarriages (three or more in a row).
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