Danielle Armstrong burst into tears after being diagnosed with endometriosis and told she might struggle to conceive.
Danielle Armstrong burst into tears after being diagnosed with endometriosis and told she might struggle to conceive
The former 'The Only Way is Essex' star was given the devastating news in December 2018 and didn't feel she could tell anyone about the condition, in which tissue similar to the lining of the womb starts to grow in other places, such as the ovaries and fallopian tubes.
She said: "I remember walking out of that appointment and I was sitting in the car park just crying on my own.
"I didn’t want to tell anyone about it. My mum’s a worrier, so anything to do with doctors I wouldn’t tell her until afterwards.
"And one of my close friends was suffering from breast cancer, so I didn’t want to be that friend who was like, ‘I’ve got all this going on’."
But 18 months after she was diagnosed, Danielle gave birth to her daughter Orla, who she shares with her childhood sweetheart and now-fiance Tom Edney, in May 2020.
Speaking to The Sun newspaper's Fab Daily, she said: "I look at her and I just absolutely love being a mum. She’s my little bestie. I love her so much.
"She’s little Miss Independent, she always gets what she wants.
"With endometriosis, it can get worse as the years go on. When the time comes and we do start trying for baby number two, I’m just going to go with it and see what happens.
"Touch wood, for me it’s going to be really easy and we’ll have the same experience we had with our little girl.
"If not, I would definitely go back to my GP and get more checks done, and get all the information I can get."
Following Orla's birth, Danielle wrote on Instagram: "My World Is Complete Orla Mae Edney Born May 26th at 16:30pm, Weighing A Healthy 8Ibs11 #mybabygirl #daughter #myworld (sic)"
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