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Gemma Collins admits she's scared her bladder will leak on her wedding day as she details her incontinence struggles


The former TOWIE star, 43, had admitted she is worried her bladder will leak on her wedding day.

The former TOWIE star admitted she 'broke down in tears' and feared she was 'going to die' after going to the bathroom and 'seeing water' following an incontinence leak, and added that her pelvic floor exercises have been 'crucial' in her recovery. Gemma told hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary she first realised she had incontinence while visiting a trampoline park with her nephew Haydn and stepson Tristan, whose father is her fiancé Rami. 'The problem can be exacerbated with age and particularly after the menopause when the body is no longer naturally producing the oestrogen that helps strengthen the pelvic floor, which is wrapped around the urethra [the tube that exits the bladder] and has an opening and closing mechanism known as the sphincter.

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