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Stacey Dooley broke down as she revealed how she was forced to undergo emergency surgery after suffering an ectopic pregnancy with partner Kevin Clifton last year.
The TV personality, 38, who already shares two-year-old daughter Minnie with the Strictly star, 42, spoke about the devastating loss during the latest episode of her show Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over.
Stacey was spending time with Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, Britain’s first legally recognised gay father and a supporter of commercial surrogacy who said it was important for him to have ‘beautiful’ children.
The TV host felt the opposite, and while alone she tearfully told the camera: ‘I have experienced what it is like to struggle to have a child, we obviously wanted to expand our family and last year I fell pregnant and it didn’t go brilliantly’.
‘It was ectopic, I am so sorry because this is so predictable. I am sat here crying on a bed. It was ectopic and it was really f***ing difficult’.
Ectopic pregnancy is a life-threatening condition which is the leading cause of maternal death in the first trimester of pregnancy. It occurs when an embryo grows in the fallopian tube, rather than the womb.
Stacey explained that she suffered an ‘internal rupture’ which left her needing emergency surgery.
‘Of course, when you go through something like that you are forced to think of alternatives. S*** happens and if you want a bigger family, you have to think how you’re going to do that’.
Stacey and Kevin met in 2018 when they were paired together on Strictly Come Dancing, going on to win the series and later confirming their relationship. They now live together in Nottingham with their daughter.
Earlier this year Stacey revealed she took her baby daughter to a brothel in Nevada, while she was filming a documentary about prostitution in the United States.
In the latest series of Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over USA she visited the oldest legal brothel in Nevada, the Mustang Ranch, to explore the lives of sex workers in the States.
But she has now revealed that her daughter, Minnie, came along for the visit, when she was just eight-months-old, joking ‘it sounds like a comedy sketch’.
Stacey recalled the story at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales, during a panel with journalist Emma Barnett, where she discussed how she juggled balancing motherhood and work.
The broadcaster explained that she brings her little girl along with her for filming – including to the more unusual locations.
According to The Telegraph, she admitted: ‘There’s nowhere that child hasn’t been. When she was eight months we had this gig in the diary to go to the States to make a documentary about this legal brothel in Nevada.
‘I’d sort of signed the contract and was like: oh, she’ll be eight months, that’ll be fine. Anyway, the trip comes, and I’m nowhere near comfortable leaving her so I take my eight-month-old child to this brothel in Nevada.
‘I have to ask the sheriff for special permission, because she’s under 18. It sounds like a comedy sketch, but it’s legit!’
Stacey explained that she had to rent a trailer for Minnie to stay in with dad Kevin and that the little girl would watch out the window while she was filming.
She hilariously recalled that when she returned to the trailer to breastfeed, the prostitutes at the brothel would greet her daughter with: ‘Morning Miss Minnie!’
The presenter quipped: ‘I’m like: she’ll be open minded if nothing else!’
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