“When you have a baby it all drops.”
Giving birth changes your body in numerous weird ways, one of which can unfortunately be incontinence.
Almost half of new mums struggle with this issue after having a baby, a recent survey in the UK found.
Now Danielle Lloyd has admitted to suffering with it after having children.
Danielle is mum to four boys – Archie (7), Harry (6), George (3) and seven-month-old Ronnie – and said that the condition had a big impact on her life.
“When you have a baby it all drops,” she said on ITV’s This Morning today.
“Even things like going to the gym became hard for me. I had to say to my personal trainer ‘I can’t do that because I might wet myself.’ It gets embarrassing.
“I get really bad hay fever so doing the school run, I’m sneezing, and by the time I’ve got there I can’t get out of the car!
“It has really changed my life,” she said.
The former glamour model revealed that she’d undergone vaginal rejuvenation in order to tackle her incontinence.
She said she was was apprehensive about the procedure beforehand but that she’s delighted with the results.
“I was a little bit nervous, that’s why I took my mum, because I wasn’t actually sure what it was and my partner was like, ‘You don’t need that done’.
“But I don’t think he really understood. I don’t think a man can understand until you’ve given birth what it feels like to sneeze and wet yourself.”
“I can’t tell you how good it is and how much it’s worked.
“I didn’t go to the gym the next day, they said 24 hours after, and I was fine, I was doing pull-ups and I was like ‘This is great I’m not wetting myself’.
“It changed that fast.”
As well as helping with incontinence, the procedure, known as FemiLift, can improve a woman’s sex life.
“Many come back to us and report of both increased sexual pleasure and better bladder control after just one treatment,” gynaecologist Dr Monika Antepowicz of Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Private Clinic previously told HerFamily.
You can find out more about FemiLift here.
