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Marina Fogle opens up about stillbirth of her baby son Willem after her placenta failed as she admits 'he would have survived if he had been born a day earlier'

Marina Fogle has opened up about the devastating miscarriage she suffered a decade ago when she was 33 weeks pregnant. The star endured the painful loss when her placenta inexplicably failed.

Speaking in a new piece for The Times, Marina shared that she and husband Ben had longed for a third child, but after the tragic loss, in which she suffered a haemorrhage, it was deemed too risky to have another baby. The mum bravely went on to found Tommy’s Children’s Carols, in conjunction with the pregnancy and baby charity, and said it has become a staple of the London social Christmas calendar over the past ten years, raising £150,000 for research into the issue. Marina explained: 'I spent a morning with Professor Phil Bennett at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in London, hearing about how the study of different bacteria women had in their cervixes at various stages of their pregnancy could potentially halve the premature birth rate.'

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