GEMMA Collins has revealed she has secretly been battling incontinence.
The 43-year-old thought she was dying when she first discovered there was an issue and the ‘flood gates’ opened while she was on a trampoline.
Bravely recalling what happened as she raised awareness about the topic, Gemma opened up to Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary on This Morning.
She explained how she took her nephew and step son to a trampoline park, but swiftly realised there was an issue.
Gemma said: “I start jumping. All of a sudden the floodgates open. I'm in mid-air and I'm like, am I dying?”
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She continued: “I don't want to ruin the kids' day. I'm soaking wet and this is just shocking. So, I went to the loo and it was water. And then I was just like, ‘I'm going to die.I need an operation. Something's happened to me’.
“I'm jumping mid-air, thinking ‘am I'm pregnant and the water's breaking?’.
“I'm so embarrassed. I've not even had kids yet.”
The devastated star admitted the experience really affected her and she sought help.
“So, I was beside myself. I remember going home. My fiancé wanted to go for dinner that night. I was just feeling so low, " she explained.
“I went into the bathroom. I started crying. I was like, my life's over. It was just so bad.”
But Gemma finally saw there was a way through and she wasn't alone.
She said: "Then, obviously, I did my research and 1 in 55% of women in the UK are experiencing this. All shapes, all sizes, all ages. Opener to me as well. It's affecting so many women's confidence.
"And like me, if I'm going on holiday, I want to do what the kids are doing. I want to go on the jet ski and, you know, be that fun person that I am.
"But living with that fear that people have on a daily basis really affected my confidence."
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She has now mostly reserved the issue thanks to doing pelvic floor exercises after fearing she would need surgery.
"I have almost reversed my incontinence by 95% by doing my pelvic floors," she said.
"I was in Benidorm two days ago. I was laughing my head off. A little bit come out, but nothing like what it would normally do."
