Jesy Nelson Reveals Complications With Twin Pregnancy in Emotional Video: ‘Praying for the Best’
Written by djfrosty on March 6, 2025
Jesy Nelson is overjoyed to be expecting identical twins, but in a video, she and boyfriend Zion Foster revealed that the pregnancy has also come with some scary complications.
In the emotional clip posted to Instagram Wednesday (March 5), the Little Mix alum opened up about the medical concerns she’s currently facing when it comes to her babies, who, she revealed, are monochorionic/diamniotic twins — meaning they share a placenta while having separate amniotic sacs, according to Columbia University. “Normally, most twins will have two placentas that they feed off of, but when you have mono/di twins, that means your twins live off one placenta, which can lead to lots of complications,” Nelson explained, addressing the camera while sitting next to her partner.
“One baby might take all the nutrients, the other might, which — really awful to say — could lead to both babies dying,” the singer continued, fighting back tears as Foster comforted her by rubbing her arm affectionately. “At the moment, I am currently pre-stage TTTS, which is twin-to-twin transfusion. I’m being monitored very closely, I have to go be scanned twice a week.”
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John Hopkins Medicine defines twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, or TTTS, as a rare pregnancy condition that affects identical twins when their shared network of blood vessels in the placenta is imbalanced. One twin might give away more blood than it receives, risking malnourishment and organ failure, while the other twin might receive too much blood and become “susceptible to overwork of the heart and other cardiac complications.”
In Nelson’s case, she says the condition has “gotten a little bit worse” every time she’s gone to the doctor for a scan. “But we are just hoping and praying for the best,” she added as Foster nodded. “We feel really blessed that we’ve been given twins. It’s just really sad that, unfortunately, it comes with these complications, which we had no idea about.”
She added, “We just really want to raise awareness about this, because there’s so many people that don’t know about this.”
The couple’s update comes close to two months after the “Boyz” artist first revealed on Instagram that she was expecting not one, but two babies with Foster. In a joint post showing off Nelson’s baby bump, the pair wrote, “She’s eating for 3 now.”
Nelson and Foster have reportedly been dating on and off since January 2022. In August, they released a song together titled “Mine.”
Watch Nelson open up about her pregnancy complications below.