Emily Andre reveals reason she'll never have another baby and breaks silence on ‘never seen by doctors before' issue

Scottish Sun

08-07-2025

There's a reason behind this decision, after a traumatic birth with baby Arabella
BIRTH TRAUMA Emily Andre reveals reason she'll never have another baby and breaks silence on 'never seen by doctors before' issue
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PETER Andre's wife Emily has revealed why she'll never have another baby, and broke her silence on a 'never seen by doctors before' health issue.
The Mysterious Girl hitmaker welcomed his third child, Arabella, now one, with wife Emily MacDonagh in April 2024.
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Peter Andre's wife Emily has revealed why she'll never have another baby
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The star broke her silence on a 'never seen by doctors before' health issue
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Emily and Pete share three children together
Together, the duo share two other children, Amelia, 11, and eight-year-old Theo.
Peter, 52, also shares two kids, Junior, 19, and Princess, 17, with ex-wife Katie Price.
But now, on the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast with Giovanna Fletcher, Emily has discussed plans for more children, and why it won't be on the cards for them.
She said: 'It's absolutely cemented now.
"We always said it would be the last anyway. Five's enough, we don't have any more bedrooms in the house for starters."
And there's a reason behind this decision, after a traumatic birth with baby Arabella.
Emily explained: "I had weird complications all the way through. She was breech. I've had two breech babies.
'She nearly made it to 38 weeks, and I haven't really spoken about her birth and what happened afterwards because it was so hard and awful. It was tough. I was really unwell after she was born, there was quite a lot of complications.
'So I had to go back for emergency surgery. She was a week old. I had to kind of hand her over and go in for another operation.'
Peter Andre reveals heartbreaking reason he and Emily won't have any more kids
Emily went on to explain that she'd developed a really rare type of hernia that was quite large.
She went on: 'All the consultants I've seen have said 'we've never seen this in our whole career.'
'Basically part of my bowels were kind of in the wrong place. And the type of hernia that it was can strangulate quite easily and that ends up being an emergency.
'I knew things weren't right after she was born because I had a big, huge lump in my tummy sticking out.
'They got me back after a week to follow it up. The surgeon looked and said 'you need to come into hospital now'.
'They scanned and they could see it was my bowels that had come out basically.
'I was breastfeeding so I thought 'My God, I'm going to have to express milk'. So they let me go home and I could do all of that."
Emily explained how she felt before going off for the hernia surgery, adding: 'Going off to theatre was the worst, like handing her (Arabella) over to my mum. I was a right mess.
"There was one thing that made me smile. I got into theatre, I was lying on the table. The porter that got me across was so lovely. He said 'You know, I brought Pete here into this theatre'.
"The way Pete and I met was my dad operated on him. We were then friends for years. He said 'This was exactly where he lay and this is the room where he met your dad'. It was just something that took my mind off it.
"Then the recovery from that was quite awful. I was in hospital for probably two or three days and then the recovery was really, really slow.
"They had to do quite a lot of stitching things up and moving things around so the pain was quite bad."
Emily said it's taken over a year for her to almost recover fully.
She said: "I feel like I'm pretty much back to health now.
"Pete was amazing, my mum and dad were amazing. I can't thank the doctors enough who looked after me, and the nurses, and the midwives were absolutely amazing."
Asked what caused the hernia, Emily said: "They don't know. There was some kind of defect in the muscle in my tummy quite high up. Whether it was caused from the previous C-section, or whether it just happened in the pregnancy, they don't really know.
"It required quite a lot of follow up afterwards as well. Everyone I've seen was like 'I've never heard of that before'."
But Emily still said the psychological moment of passing on Arabella after a week was the worst part for her.
"It was the handing her over, that was the worst part of it."
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Emily said it's taken over a year for her to almost recover fully
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