Ashley Graham Reveals She Almost Died After Giving Birth to Twin Sons: ‘I Remember Seeing Darkness’
usmagazine.comAshley Graham opened up about the traumatic experience of giving birth to her twin sons, revealing that she almost died from blood loss.“The night I gave birth to the twins, I hemorrhaged,” the supermodel, 34, wrote in an essay for Glamour published on Friday, May 20.
Graham recalled that she thought she needed to use the bathroom in the middle of the night when Malachi “came out just as my doula was arriving” at her New York apartment. “Two hours and seven minutes later, I had Roman in my apartment bathtub — we didn’t even have enough time to blow up the home birthing tub because everything happened so fast,” she continued.“The next thing you know, I looked at my midwife and I said, ‘I don’t feel good.
I think I need to lay down,’ and I blacked out,” the Nebraska native explained, adding that she felt “a light touch” on her cheek, which she later learned was someone “smacking the crap out of my cheek, someone holding my hand. … And I remember seeing darkness and what seemed like stars.”In her editorial, Graham revealed that she had lost “liters of blood” in the hours after welcoming the baby boys into the world and was unable to even sit up when she eventually came to. “Thank goodness the twins were fine, while I lay on that bed for four straight days.
I couldn’t walk for a week. And I didn’t leave my house for nearly two months,” she added. With the help of her midwives, she was able to make sure that the newborns were taken care of while she recovered from the ordeal.Graham continued: “I tell you all of this — in pretty unflinching detail — because I believe in the importance of honesty; in revealing things about myself that I hope will help others talk about what they too have been through.”The A New Model author —
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