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They put me in the same room as new mothers... I was bleeding so heavily I had to wear a nappy. They gave me no support: Love Island's Sharon Gaffka opens up on the horror of her miscarriage - and why she's now backing a change in law


Whenever Sharon Gaffka sees a mother pushing her baby in a pram or a toddler playing in the park, she starts to think of her own child - who would be celebrating their third birthday this summer.

The former civil servant won a legion of fans on the ITV reality show for her brains, eloquence and career ambitions – leading one male contestant to controversially complain she didn't want to be a 'housewife'. In February 2022 – just one month after finding out she was pregnant – Sharon was walking her dog in a park near her parents' home in Oxfordshire when she suddenly felt 'shooting pains' in her abdomen and started bleeding. The parliamentary women and equalities committee, chaired by Labour MP Sarah Owen, is examining the workplace impacts of miscarriage and early pregnancy loss.

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