Myleene Klass: It's unacceptable how women having miscarriages ...

Myleene Klass has opened up about the devastating miscarriages she’s suffered over the last decade, and urged the government to do more, saying it’s ‘unacceptable’ how women who have gone through baby loss are being treated.

The former Hear’Say singer, 46, who is a Tommy’s ambassador, is to be recognised in the New Year Honours for her services to women’s health, miscarriage awareness and to charity.

The mum-of-three, who has daughters Ava and Hero and her ‘rainbow baby’ son Apollo, has spent years campaigning for government change regarding miscarriage care, and fronted a Bafta-nominated documentary, Myleene Klass: Miscarriage And Me, in 2021, where she spoke about her own heart-breaking experiences.

In an interview with Metro, after the announcement of being made an MBE, Myleene discussed how difficult it was to speak about her own miscarriages in the BBC programme, and raged over the lack of concern for women’s health in this day and age.

She said: ‘The subject matter [of the documentary] was not one that many people wish to talk about – it’s whispered about, it’s brushed under the carpet. “People just got on with it in our day,” that’s what you hear all the time.

‘So to talk so visibly, to put a spotlight on such a heart-wrenching subject, it was really difficult. I remember saying to the rest of the team when we were filming, “I don’t know how I’m going to do this,” because every time I said the word… I’d never heard myself say it out loud, I’d heard other people say it like doctors, specialists, friends, but I’d never said it myself.

‘I just couldn’t bring myself to say the words, to keep on re-living and ripping off that band aid. It’s just so painful.’

Recalling her own experiences, she went on: ‘There is part of you that thinks, how many times do I keep reliving this? How many times do I keep putting myself and my family through this?

‘And then I think back to the very first miscarriage that I had, and how helpless I felt and invisible and just utterly traumatized, you feel so desperate, you have no idea where to go.

‘And I think I owe that girl, I owe her what I’m doing now, and I’m in a position to make a change.’

Through her campaigning and advocacy, Myleene is urging for clearer guidelines from medical professionals, as well as data collection.

She said: ‘I’ve got daughters, I’ve got a son. I don’t want it to happen to them, but god forbid it does, there will be a guided pathway of help. We won’t all just be flailing around like I was looking for answers, getting the wrong answers, guessing, speaking to people who I thought were experts, who then turn around and say, “This isn’t my area of expertise, have you tried this person.”‘

In recent years, Myleene has been backing changes to the Women’s Health Strategy, among which was a call to ensure women will not have to suffer up to three miscarriages before receiving help.

The I’m A Celebrity star powerfully told us: ‘Why should we wait for three consecutive miscarriages? It’s unacceptable in this day and age, we should get the help we require.

‘Why are women losing babies in A&E? They should be going to early pregnancy units, but they can’t, because they close early, there aren’t even enough of them. Why are GPs saying they can’t prescribe progesterone because they just haven’t been given up to date information? But that would save 8500 babies.

‘And most critical of all, why don’t we have any data? Why are we guessing that this is 20,000 women it’s happening to every month? We don’t know because nobody has decided to collect the data. But for what reason? This is why I go to Westminster. This is why I ask the difficult questions, and this is why I continue my work.’

She continued: ‘I think that women in the most vulnerable times have to suddenly become medical experts and know the questions to ask and are expected to just know where to go, and I find it utterly surprising.

‘It’s a time when we should be scooped up and guided and coveted and supported, and so many women, myself included, just don’t know where to go. So this is what I’ve been campaigning for, we need a critical path. We need a graded model of care that every single medical professional can say, “This is the book, this is the list, this is the pathway, this is where we take you to, we will give you immediate help and support and for your family.”

‘You wouldn’t wait for someone to have three consecutive heart attacks, you’d help them on their first! It should be the same for when they lose a baby.’

Myleene referenced baby loss certificates, which – although they provide comfort to many people – aren’t official, meaning the babies are not recognised or registered.

Urging the government to do more regarding data collection, she went on: ‘Women’s fertility and women’s health is shrouded in secrecy. We’re not allowed to say when we’re pregnant, but that’s an old wives tale. Why do I have to keep it a secret for three months, it’s when I need the most help and the most information? Why do we have so much negativity around the terminology of pregnancy, miscarriage, blighted ovum, incompetent cervix?

‘Everything feels so negative, and we don’t have enough specialists, so miscarriage is a no man’s land, because when you’ve had your baby, we have those units available, and when you’re trying for a baby, we also know what that status is. But what about when you’re in no man’s land and you’ve lost a baby, but they’re still in you, are you now a mum or not?’

‘It’s that purgatory, it’s a real torturous area to be in, and I’d like to change that, with education,’ she added.

‘I think it’s interesting how in PSHE lessons, we learn about pregnancy, but in the same way that you wouldn’t expect someone to drive off in a car without having insurance and knowing how to get roadside assistance, what happens if your body goes wrong?’

Looking back on the changes she made through her campaigning and her miscarriage documentary, and having included her daughters in sharing their family’s story, Myleene stressed how the impact of miscarriages effects so many people, including in her own family.

She said: ‘I think that’s what the message here is – miscarriage, it affects everyone. It’s not just the woman who suffers that deep trauma, there’s little ones who think they’re getting a sibling, there’s a partner who feels completely helpless, there’s grandparents that don’t know what to do, they just feel so helpless.

‘They say that 50% of the room that you walk into have experienced some experience of miscarriage and baby loss. So you know that’s a lot of people that are going through this… I’d like to say once-taboo, I’m hoping that I’m a huge part of breaking that taboo and helping change law and make sure that every single voice gets heard and no woman or baby has to go through this unnecessarily ever again.’

She added: ‘Here we are today, [my children] get to see the brighter side of things as well: when women campaign, and hold their own, and won’t take no for an answer. I’m really proud that my children have seen what their mother is made of.’

As well as ‘owing’ her younger self, advocating for thousands of women, and inspiring her own daughters to speak out, Myleene said she feels ‘a huge responsibility’ to her four babies that ‘didn’t get a voice’.

‘I think that for so long, this has been a taboo, it’s been a deep, dark secret. It’s something that we need to just get on with, like everything else that we do, we shouldn’t have to put up with things anymore.

‘This is 2025, you’re going into a new era here, and we have to show our children that this is the change and I’ll show you the change that I want to be a part of, and that I want you to be on the receiving end of.

‘So I feel really proud, actually, because I haven’t done this alone, and everyone needs allies, and so I feel very proud of the people that stood and supported me as well.

‘Like I said, it’s not been something that I’ve done alone, but you can feel extremely isolated.

‘Ultimately, I feel a huge responsibility to the four babies that didn’t get a voice. It’s almost like I have to prove to them as well that they chose the right mum and that I will continue, even though they’ve gone ahead, I will continue to fight for their voice and their rights and to show them that they did choose the right mum.’

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