Reality TV star Dani Dyer-Bowen has revealed she had a "very early miscarriage" before she gave birth to her son Santiago.
_The Love Island_ winner, 29, who is the daughter of actor Danny Dyer, realised she wanted a baby after a pregnancy "that didn't work out".
Dyer-Bowen was 24 when she gave birth to Santiago in 2021, who she shares with ex-partner Sammy Kimmence.
She also has twin daughters Summer and Star - born in 2023 - with her husband, Premier League footballer Jarrod Bowen.
Dyer-Bowen told the _Great Company With Jamie Laing_ podcast: "Before I got pregnant with Santi, I got pregnant, and then that didn’t work out, but then I wanted a baby, because that didn’t work out. I was like, 'Well, I want a baby, so this month I’m going to be not careful’."
She added: "It was a miscarriage, but it was a very early miscarriage, but I think it just… when I got pregnant again, I mean, I don’t know how many scans I had.
"I was up there all the time. I was literally knocking at the door, like, ‘Can you check again? Can you check again?’ They’re like, ‘Dani, come on’. I had a portfolio of (scans of) Santi, honestly, he weren’t even born… I just thought I need to see him one more time.
"Pregnancy is so scary, so scary, because it is like you’re growing a baby, like it’s a miracle, in a sense, looking after them and making sure you’re doing the right things, and ‘don’t eat this, don’t eat that’. It was scary for me."
Dyer-Bowen dated Kimmence before she appeared on _Love Island_ and later rekindled their romance after her split from Jack Fincham.
She later split from Kimmence again, and he was jailed for three and a half years in 2021 for defrauding two pensioners out of more than £34,000.
She married England and West Ham footballer Bowen in May.
Source: Press Association