Georgia Kousoulou has opened up about her recent health scare the trauma of baby loss in a candid interview.
The former TOWIE star, 34, told how she is having her breast implants removed after a doctor discovered one of them has ruptured.
Speaking on Paul C. Brunson’s We Need To Talk podcast, Georgia revealed she went to see a doctor after finding a lump on her breast.
While the lump was benign, the doctor instead discovered one of her implants was damaged and needs to be quickly removed.
‘He was like okay the lump is nothing to worry about,’ she said. ‘I was like, “Oh my god thank God,” and he’s like, “I’m gonna scan the other.” As he’s scanning the other one he’s like, “Can you see that?” I was like, “What is that?” That implant has ruptured.
‘He’s like, “They’re not supposed to be that.” I was like, “Oh, okay. He’s like you need to get them out.”
Georgia Kousoulou has opened up about her recent health scare the trauma of baby loss in a candid interview
The former TOWIE star, 34, told how she is having her breast implants removed after a doctor discovered one of them has ruptured
‘He was like, “They’re not gone into lymph nodes,” which is obviously good but that is not saying that they won’t, implants can leak. He’s like, “You need to get them out when you get home.”
‘Fast forward I’ve been recommended this surgeon in London. Went to see him. Really lovely guy. He was like, “How are you not in pain?”
‘I’m like yeah, I’ve had a bit of pain, I said, but I’m going to be honest I’ve been busy, I’ve had a baby, I’ve done IVF, I’ve got married. A lot has happened in my last two years of life. I’ve just ignored them.
‘He’s like, “You can’t do that, you need to get them out.” So I’m now getting them out. I think the problem nowadays with implants is they disguise things, if you’re going to have implants.
‘Surgery is up to everyone. I think if it’s going to make you feel good about yourself, why not do it?
‘If it’s safe and you’re going to a great doctor that you really recommend, why should anyone tell you you shouldn’t do it? It’s your life, right?’
Georgia encouraged anyone who is considering a boob job to make sure to ‘get them checked’.
‘Unfortunately, if you’ve got an implant, you need to get that scan, because unless you’re getting a scan, you can’t tell,’ she said. .I would have never known that they ruptured, I’d have never known they’d broken. So thank God I did do that.’
A doctor discovered one of her implants was damaged and needs to be quickly removed
Elsewhere during the wide-ranging interview, Georgia opened up about suffering a miscarriage (pictured with husband Tommy Mallett)
Elsewhere during the wide-ranging interview, Georgia opened up about suffering a miscarriage.
The reality star is mother to son Brodie, four, and 11-month-old daughter Gigi with her husband Tommy Mallett.
Georgia told how when she got pregnant, she went to a private clinic after having a bleed. She was told the bleed was nothing to worry about but that the ‘sac around the baby’ was small.
The healthcare professional was unsure exactly what the problem was so Georgia was sent home where she drove herself ‘mental’ with worry.
The star didn’t want to tell anyone she was pregnant but got a bump quickly so tried to hide it from the her social media followers/
‘The public kept writing on my Instagram. She’s put on weight. I was getting slated that I was getting big,’ she said.
She later found another doctor in London who told her the tragic news that the baby was probably not going to survive.
‘We found this doctor, this professional in London. I go to him, I lay there, the dreaded silence and then he’s like, “There’s a heartbeat.” I’m like oh there’s a heartbeat, there’s heartbeat. It’s fine.
‘Then he goes, “Can you go empty your bladder?” Go empty my bladder. Come back in the room. Looked at Tommy’s face. I was like what? He’s like, “George sit down.”
The reality star is mother to son Brodie, four, and 11-month-old daughter Gigi with her husband Tommy Mallett
‘I’m like, “No, no, no no what? No what, what?” And the doctor was like, “I’m going to be honest with you, I don’t know if this baby is going to survive.” And I’m like, “No, no, no, no, no, no. What do you mean?”
‘He’s like, “I think you should go home and we’ll talk again in a week.” I’m like, “I can’t, I can’t.” This is just torture.
‘I could see it by Tommy’s face. I was thinking, I know you all know something, but I’m going to go. I’m going to go home. Come back? Why not?’
Georgia said she ‘screamed all the way home’ and she was later told she would be called in to ‘remove this child’.
‘I was like, “It goes against everything that I’ve ever believed in, because you’re basically telling me I’ve got to terminate the baby because the baby’s alive.”
‘So they’re telling me I’ve got to say yes to that. You know, I’m like, no. But at the same time, I can’t go through having a stillborn. Either way, I didn’t want to make either decision, you know?
‘And the doctor rang me himself and he said, “Georgia, I’m making the decision for you. This is best for you, your other child, your family. We have to remove this baby, you could be pregnant for another six months. You don’t know.”
‘And who knew?I was going, “Please just tell me, how do you know?” I was like, “Is there even a year of this baby?” Because I would have taken the year.
‘I would have, I would have I think, I would have clung on. If they said to me that baby could have lived for even a year, I would’ve tool it. But an hour? No. Stillborn.
‘I couldn’t have done that to Brody, I couldn’t have done that to anyone around me. I could have done that to myself. I couldn’t have done that. So I said, okay. And they got me in the next day. They were that concerned.’
Asked how she ‘healed’ from the miscarriage, Georgia said she cried a lot while Tommy ‘threw himself into work’.
‘But I’m going to be honest. What came after that was really bad. My obsession with wanting a baby and it wasn’t happening, and that was probably just as bad,’ she said.
‘The torture again of trying and it not happening because it happened quick. It happened first time both times. That pressure for our relationship was really, really bad because he was like, you are torturing yourself.
‘I didn’t want to replace the baby. You can never replace a soul. I was like, I just needed that back. I didn’t even want to lose my bump. I was that into it. It was bad. Yeah I was eating like I was still pregnant.’
If you have been affected by this story, you can call The Miscarriage Association’s pregnancy loss helpline on 0303 003 6464.
