Charlotte Crosby has revealed she suffered a silent miscarriage after becoming pregnant with her third baby, saying the loss was confirmed only after two weeks of waiting following a scan that showed no embryo. The TV personality said she and her fiance, Jake Ankers, had already started making plans for the new arrival, including looking at bigger cars and filming a reveal for social media.
Crosby said she found out she was expecting on March 3 and went into the pregnancy with no fear that anything would go wrong after two successful pregnancies. She described having the usual early signs, including nausea, sore breasts and fatigue, which made the news feel like another straightforward chapter for the family. That changed at the first scan, when the sonographer could not find the embryo and told them it might simply have been too early to see anything, so they were asked to come back in two weeks.
When Crosby and Ankers sat through the scan, the silence told them something was wrong. She later recalled thinking, “Oh, f**k, this really isn’t good.” Two weeks later, a doctor in London confirmed the pregnancy was not active and diagnosed a silent miscarriage. A missed or silent miscarriage can happen when the baby has not developed but has not yet been physically miscarried, which means pregnancy hormones may still be present and the loss can unfold without the obvious signs many people expect.
The disclosure lands with a particular force because Crosby and Ankers already share two daughters, Alba and Pixi, and had already shifted into the practical business of preparing for a third child. Crosby said she felt naive for assuming nothing could go wrong after what she called a plain-sailing start to her first two pregnancies, adding that it never crossed her mind that this one would end differently. That assumption is part of what makes silent miscarriage so difficult to spot, and why many people do not recognise it until a scan or blood test forces the truth into the open.
The scale is stark. Tommy's says as many as one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, yet the condition can still come as a shock when there are no immediate warning signs. Crosby’s account puts a public face on that reality at a moment when she had been planning for a new baby, not preparing for loss. For anyone in the same position, the doctor’s confirmation answered the question the first scan left hanging: the pregnancy was over.
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