Emily Atack Reveals Secret Sepsis Battle After Birth

has revealed she suffered from after giving birth to her son, which has led to her weight loss. 

The Rivals actress, 36, welcomed her first son Barney back in 2024 with her fiancé Alistair Garner. 

And opening up about the trauma of her pregnancy and birth she explained she was unable to leave the house for weeks after a difficult pregnancy and birth.

She told Grazia magazine: 'I was trolled for being enormous when I was pregnant and I'm now trolled for having lost weight. 

'My body holds all my trauma as well as my happiness and joy. I went through a very difficult pregnancy. I was very ill after the birth. I had sepsis, I couldn't leave the house for weeks. It was awful.'

Emily has since faced accusations from fans that she has turned to jabs after showcasing her slimmed down physique in Instagram posts. 

And addressing the speculation surrounding her weight loss Emily continued: 'I'm just asking for people for a little bit of patience and understanding at such a complex thing. Women's bodies change all the time. I am so done with defending it.' 

Emily confirmed she is now doing much better health-wise now and is looking forward to tying the knot with Alistair in September. 

The star previously spoke about her relationship with her body post pregnancy and trolling during an appearance on Jamie Laing's Great Company podcast. 

She said: 'There's something quite liberating about having a baby. Your body goes through so much and you genuinely look at your body as a completely different vessel.

'Being pregnant and being desexualised, looking at your body, you create a human inside you, then you give birth to your child - which by the way is mental - you get home and the first thing people say to you is, when are you going to get back in the gym?'

She added: 'Are you kidding? I've just created a human, I am exhausted! I've just tried to push a human out of me and had it ripped out of my stomach.

'The last thing I want to do is go to the gym but the first thing you're expected to do is get back into shape.

'Where's the congratulations for being a mother? Instead it's when are you going to get the baby weight off... I'm not back at the gym at the minute, I've actually put on more weight since giving birth. I'm just enjoying this bit.'

Emily revealed that she's always had a 'healthy relationship' with her weight but was unprepared for the comments she'd receive in her breakout role as Charlotte Hinchcliffe in The Inbetweeners.

'Everybody started talking about my weight,' she explained. 'There was a whole Facebook page dedicated to me/Charlotte Hinchcliffe. I couldn't believe how awful it was, people talking about my weight.

'People would then try and be positive and say, 'At least we're seeing curvier girls now playing sexier roles on television.' I didn't even know I was curvy!

'I was a size eight, a tiny little body, but to some people it was the first time they'd seen a girl that wasn't really, really skinny. They were used to seeing very underweight actresses playing the sexy girls.'