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Just as the band was preparing to go on their break, she was secretly expecting her second child with footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Perrie, 32, gave birth to her son Axel in August 2021, and she previously described him as a “rainbow baby” – the term used for a baby born after a previous pregnancy loss.
The singer, who shared the devastating loss recently, has now opened up in depth about the “traumatic” experience of losing her unborn baby at six months pregnant – and one of the “worst parts”.
“It felt like it came out of nowhere. Every scan before had been fine, we just weren’t expecting to go into the 22-week scan, and for our world to just crumble,” she said in a new interview with Glamour.
And then the whole experience was very traumatic.
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“A few days later, I remember being in the shower and my milk came in.
“I remember just going out the room like, ‘Mam!’, and she was like, ‘What, what, what?’, and I was like, ‘I’ve got milk!’.
“She was like, ‘Oh, darling, they said this would happen.’ But I just wasn’t expecting it. I was devastated. That was the worst bit. My body was prepared for the baby, but the baby was gone.”
Perrie opened up about how she and husband Alex managed to get through the painful ordeal.
She shared: “We are very lucky to have each other. We love each other so much.
“He was just so worried about me, and I think he felt the lack of control, like there was nothing he could really do.
“But him just being there, and being by my side through the whole thing, just made it so much better.
“I kept asking him, ‘Are you okay?’, and he’s like, ‘It’s not about me,’ and I’m like, ‘Yes it is though’. We both lost a baby. We both went through it.
“He’s very like that with emotions, he tries to just suck it up and move on. But I could see that he was traumatised about it.
“I think he just wanted to try and be strong for me.”
The Power songstress said she overwhelmed with the reaction from sharing her story publicly.
“It’s been lovely. So many people have reached out, like family members or friends that I didn’t know went through it as well, so I think it is important to talk about,” Perrie said.
“It’s just the understanding of it. There was a lot of, ‘So what? It wasn’t even a baby.’ And I’m like, ‘Okay, this is where you need to start learning about the female body and learning about pregnancies’. Yes, we lost the baby, but it was a baby loss, not a miscarriage.
“When you’re that far in the pregnancy and you lose the baby, it’s a baby loss.
“You still have to give birth to the baby. It doesn’t just disappear into thin air.”
Perrie admitted change is needed when it comes to miscarriages and how society approaches it.
“I think it’s the same kind of thing with mental health. Baby loss is still a bit taboo,” the singer explained.
“I don’t know if it’s because women are made to feel ridiculed in some way, like it’s their fault when baby loss or miscarriages happen.
“There’s so much in it, that that’s not the case at all. I think people just need to be a bit more sensitive to it all.”
Earlier this month, Perrie shared some happy news that she is pregnant with her second child.
Perrie bravely spoke about losing her baby at 24 weeks while on the We Need To Talk podcast with Paul C. Brunson.
Perrie said her first miscarriage before the birth of her son Axel in 2021, occurred very early in the pregnancy.
But then unfortunately she lost the baby in what she said was “just the worst day of my life.”
Perrie explained: “We went for what was a 20-week scan, but we were actually 22 weeks, and that was just the worst day of my life.
“Like, horrendous. I just knew something was wrong in the scan. I’ve never experienced an out-of-body experience where everything goes in slow motion.”
Two weeks later, the duo were given the heartbreaking news that there was no heartbeat.
She said: “I remember sobbing. Alex was injured at the time and couldn’t really drive.
“He was struggling to drive, but I couldn’t see straight. I was just distraught. We basically lost the baby at, like, 24 weeks.”
Perrie added: “It’s weird, because the first time it happened, I think because it was so early, I was like, ‘Oh, that’s hard’.
“But I think when you’re 24 weeks and you’ve planned out that room and all these things, it’s really hard. And nobody knows other than immediate friends and family.”
This story originally appeared on The Sun and is republished here with permission
