'I've been through divorce, a miscarriage and nearly died' - Rebecca Adlington opens up about her emotional traumas
ok.co.ukFour-time Olympic medallist Rebecca Adlington has enjoyed an incredible summer presenting for the BBC poolside at the Paris Olympic Games.
But now, the down-to-earth sports star is back to her reality of being a busy mum and business owner.The presenting job, alongside Clare Balding and Mark Foster, came after what had been a very difficult year for Rebecca and her husband of three years, Andy Parsons.The couple suffered the devastating loss of their daughter, Harper, during a second trimester miscarriage in October last year.
And Rebecca, who had also miscarried the previous year, is determined to use the experience to help others talk about not just miscarriage, but emotional traumas in general. “A horrible topic like miscarriage is hard to listen to and hard to talk about, but what happened to me really opened my eyes to the power of opening up, not only for yourself but for other people,” she tells us. “I was never going to talk about it publicly but because we announced the pregnancy, I sort of had to.
I couldn’t believe how many people got in touch, especially people saying they’d been through something similar but hadn’t spoken to friends or family about it, and they just wanted to tell someone. “That really brought home the question of, ‘Why don’t we speak to each other more?
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