Olivia Bowen has showed off her incredible post-baby weight loss after revealing she ‘could never go through childbirth again’ following the traumatic delivery of her daughter Siena.
The Love Island star, 32, shares six-month-old Siena, as well as son Abel, three, with with her husband Alex, 34, whom she wed in 2018 after meeting on the reality show.
Taking to Instagram on Monday, Olivia revealed she has been working with personal trainer Maria Gilbert for three months to lose a stone after welcoming Siena last year.
Sharing an array of before and after clips, Olivia wrote: ‘@mashaspeachesfit_ Thank you for helping me gain my pink back. Now let’s get to the next 12 weeks of work.’
Olivia also reshared a post from Maria of her transformation as she wrote: ‘Never thought I would be happy to share this but @mashaspeachesfit_ has got to be applauded for the support & motivation she has given me.
’12 weeks of work, most breastfeeding, split nights feeding, went on holiday & we’re still here over a stone down & a hundred times stronger in the gym.
Olivia Bowen showed off her incredible post-baby weight loss on Instagram on Monday after revealing she ‘could never go through childbirth again’
Taking to Instagram on Monday, Olivia revealed she has been working with personal trainer Maria Gilbert for three months to lose a stone after welcoming Siena last year
‘You have given me my confidence back & I could never have done this without you.’
Last month, Olivia revealed her husband Alex underwent a vasectomy after the couple decided to not have any more children following the traumatic birth of Siena.
Olivia said she could ‘never go through childbirth again’ after nearly dying as a result of losing litres of blood during the delivery last year.
Speaking in October on her ITV2 reality show Olivia & Alex: Parenthood, she broke down in tears as she recalled suffering a major haemorrhage during her C-section.
Olivia then said: ‘We are absolutely done. Alex had a vasectomy the other day, so no more kids for us.
‘There were a lot of reasons – personal ones, environmental ones, external ones, but ultimately we just feel complete now.’
She went on to tell The Sun: ‘We’re lucky enough to have two and I think what happened with Siena’s twin made me think: “I just can’t do that again”.’
A vasectomy, or male sterilisation, is a procedure to cut the tubes that carry a man’s sperm to permanently prevent pregnancy without further contraception.
It can usually be done under local anaesthetic and takes about 15 minutes, according to the NHS.
Sharing an array of before and after clips, Olivia wrote: ‘@mashaspeachesfit_ Thank you for helping me gain my pink back. Now let’s get to the next 12 weeks of work’
Olivia said she could ‘never go through childbirth again’ after nearly dying in child birth last year (Pictured with six-month-old daughter Siena and son Abel, three)
The reality star has been very open about her health anxiety after ‘nearly dying’ when she gave birth to her daughter in August.
On her reality show viewers saw Olivia attempting a home birth with a birthing pool before she began to struggle so much with the pain that they had to call an ambulance to rush her to hospital.
She said: ‘We had a plan but it didn’t come off. I felt something that didn’t feel right. I was only 5cm dilated after 10 hours but I was determined to push through, I then felt a lump in my vagina and we made the decision to go to hospital.’
She revealed that ‘my bladder had fallen down into my cervix and was obstructing the exit for the baby’ meaning she had to have a c-section.
‘I was really scared, it’s a surgery and it’s a big thing and it’s not the easy way out,’ she said. ‘She came out crying which was incredible and beautiful and I had her on my face and I started to feel dizzy.
‘The nurse started calling out how much blood I was losing and all I could hear was 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and it was going up and up quickly and the fear sunk in really quickly, it was really scary.’
Breaking down in tears, she said: ‘They started yelling, major haemorrhage across all the surgery room and that’s all I remember.
‘There was doctors in and out and no one was telling me what was going on. I felt so sick and dizzy and Alex said the blood just drained from me.
On her reality show viewers saw Olivia attempting a home birth with a birthing pool before she began to struggle so much with the pain that they had to call an ambulance to rush her to hospital
‘I remember thinking don’t close your eyes because I thought I’d pass out or even worse. It was very close.
‘I ended up losing 2.8 litres of blood and you only have 4.5 litres so the blood loss… to feel that you are that close to losing your life, was very very scary.’
Olivia continued by thanking the NHS for ‘saving her life’ and explained that she ‘feels so lucky’ to be alive.
She said: ‘The doctors were absolutely incredible. The NHS were amazing, they saved my life.’
While she said that she had now ‘processed’ to terrifying ordeal, her husband Alex admitted he was ‘traumatised’.
Olivia told him: ‘I feel like I’ve processed it, we got through 20 hours of labour at home, I think you were more traumatised.’
Alex agreed, adding: ‘Yeah its the worse thing I’ve ever seen and never want to go through it again.’
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