Geordie Coast Star Vicky Pattison has opened up about the brutal online backlash she experienced after sharing her egg freezing journey on social media.
The 37-year-old said she had received hundreds of negative messages on her Instagram page, where the former winner of I'm a celebrity… Get me out of here He has more than 5 million followers.
Forced to quit social media as a result of online hate, Pattison said she hoped her outspokenness would help others feel less “embarrassed,” but instead she was subjected to an avalanche of personal comments criticizing her decision.
One of those messages said: “God doesn't want you to have children. Just accept it.”
Pattison, who at the time was “full of synthetic hormones,” said The times, “I felt depressed. It was the last thing I needed.
“There were people who said that I am playing with nature. It's not natural what I'm doing, and if I haven't found someone who will have a baby with me maybe I should stop.”
In a series of unfiltered Instagram posts, the first loose women The presenter uploaded footage of herself crying during the egg freezing process, shared photos of her progress scans and injected hormones into her stomach on camera.
Vicky Pattison spoke about the backlash that forced her to delete her social media.
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“I wanted to show that we shouldn't be ashamed of it, we should be proud,” he said. “There is a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation about the process.”
Egg freezing treatment is an increasingly popular method used by women in their 30s to delay pregnancy. Pattison made the decision to freeze her eggs after she turned 35, saying she knew “the viability of her eggs seriously deteriorated” after that age.
She has been engaged to her partner Ercan Ramadan, six years her junior, since 2019 and said she did not want to rush into having children before they were ready.
The Geordie Shore star has been engaged to Ercan Ramadan since 2019
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“Men mature later than women. He's in his twenties, bless him, so asking him to be a father when he really wasn't ready… I felt like he was pretty unfair and irresponsible,” Pattison said. The times.
The television personality, who became a patron of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics last year, previously shared her concerns about motherhood as a result of her upbringing and past experiences with alcohol.
In an emotional Mother's Day post, she shared an image of herself in the hospital, along with photos with other women in her life.
A title of the publication said: “Sending love to everyone today. I know that for many it is a special day, but I know that for some it can be a painful reminder of what is not, of what used to be and of what we wish it were…”
Last year, she gave evidence to the parliamentary Women and Equalities committee as part of an inquiry into women's reproductive health, alongside BBC presenter Naga Munchetty.
