Olivia Bowen Questions Spain Move, Considers Homeschooling Abel

Olivia Bowen Questions Spain Move, Considers Homeschooling Abel

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has said she is doubting her move to with 'everything going on right now' and is considering homeschooling her son Abel. 

The Love Island star, 32, shares two children, three-year-old son Abel and six-month-old daughter Siena with husband Alex, who she met on the hit show in 2016.

Now Olivia has revealed she is debating whether to relocate her family to Spain as 'everything is so heavy' and she is 'worried for everyone'. 

Sharing a statement to her Instagram Stories, she penned: 'Everyday I wake up thinking about moving our life to Spain for the kids (and for us obviously).

'I wake up thinking about homeschooling too. With Abel due to start school this year, a lot doesn't sit right. 

'Everything is so heavy at the moment, it's why I haven't been very active online. I am so worried for everyone. 

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'We've spoken about moving for a different lifestyle abroad for a good couple of years but the last few months it's come up more than ever.'

Olivia Bowen has said she is doubting her move to Spain with 'everything going on right now' and is considering homeschooling her son Abel

The Love Island star, 32, shares two children, three-year-old son Abel and six-month-old daughter Siena with husband Alex, who she met on the hit ITV show in 2016

She continued: 'I can't work out whether it's because I genuinely do want to move or, I'm trying to escape the feeling of constant worry about the world & I'm imagining that if I move I'll move away from that. 

'But like I said to the girls, it's not like I am moving planets. Hope everyone is ok! P.S. If you have moved to Marbella with young kids (surrounding villages) please message me.'

The TV personality shared a second post thanking fans for their advice and said she and her family will be 'starting the journey' of moving later this year.  

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She wrote: 'So many messages already wow thank you. There's so much to think about with this & we are starting the journey this year looking into areas, visas, schools etc so there's lots of research to be done. 

'Spending as much time in Spain as possible this year to see if it's really what we want. The ideal would be to have a smaller house here to come back to when we wanted & have our main life in Spain. 

'It's crazy I would say 98.5% of the messages are absolutely do it which is crazy. Who knows... But I really appreciate your comments & messages it's soooo helpful xxxx'.

It comes after Olivia nearly died while giving birth to her second child last year after losing a huge amount of blood.

During their reality show Olivia and Alex: Parenthood, Olivia opened up about nearly dying after haemorrhaging while having a C-section.

The star had originally planned to have a home birth and after over '10 hours' felt that something was wrong and got rushed to A&E in an ambulance.

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Olivia revealed that her 'bladder had fallen down into my cervix and was obstructing the exit for the baby' meaning she had to have a c-section.

She said: 'I was really scared, its a surgery and its a big thing and its not the easy was out. She came out crying which was incredible and beautiful and I had her on my face and I started to feel dizzy.

Detailing how she lost a 'really scary' amount of blood, Olivia continued: 'The nurse started calling out how much blood I was loosing 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.'

Now Olivia has revealed she is debating whether to relocate her family to Spain as 'everything is so heavy' and she is 'worried for everyone'

Olivia said: 'I can't work out whether it's because I genuinely do want to move or, I'm trying to escape the feeling of constant worry about the world'

The TV personality shared a second post thanking fans for their advice and said she and her family will be 'starting the journey' of moving later this year

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'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.

'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.

'I was full of medication and I don't know where I was but I wanted this natural birth and then being medicated and going through that to nearly losing my life it just made me not give a shit what happened because I'm here and she is here. I feel so lucky.

'The recovery is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I have no strength, can't drive for six weeks. The amount of blood I lost I haven't got the energy to recover, the doctors said it will be three months until I feel like myself again.'

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Elsewhere in the show, while speaking to husband Alex, Olivia revealed that she had 'processed' the birth while Alex has become 'traumatised'.

She said: 'I feel like I've processed it, we got through 20 hours of labour at home, I think you were more traumatised.'

Alex replied: 'Yeah its the worse thing I've ever seen and never want to go through it again.'

Olivia added: 'I feel the most womanly I've ever felt, I had a different mind set and I put that down to the home birth because of preparing for that it changed the game for me.'

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