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Lottie Ryan asks people to think about women like Rosanna Davison when questioning others about having children

The model suffered multiple miscarriages before she finally opened up about her fertility struggles last year

Lottie Ryan has asked people to think about women like Rosanna Davison when questioning others about having children.

The former Miss World was asked about starting a family for years, before she finally opened up about her struggle to have a baby last year.

Speaking to the Irish Daily Mirror, Lottie said: “Look at somebody like Rosanna Davison.”

“For me she is the epitome of somebody who looks so put together. Always has a smile on her face, and just always such a lovely person.”

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“And then little did we know, I remember watching that interview with her on the Late Late Show and thinking ‘holy s**t’.”

“That poor woman has been doing interviews for years with people asking her if she was going to pop one out and what she was going through was utter hell,” Lottie said.

“I just think people should be a little bit more careful and educate themselves on fertility and think before you speak.”

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Last year, Rosanna told fans that she suffered multiples miscarriages before she decided to look into surrogacy.

And last November, the model and her husband Wes Quirke welcomed a baby girl named Sophia via gestational surrogate.

Wes and Rosanna with their daughter Sophia | INSTAGRAM

Lottie also revealed she suffered mentally when people kept questioning her about starting a family.

The radio presenter, who married her husband Fabio Aprile back in 2017, said she started to wonder if something was wrong with her – as people kept hounding her about having a baby.

“I just feel like Jesus for me anyways, you spend your twenties doing everything you can to not get pregnant,” she said.

“And then suddenly you get married and are in your thirties and every Tom, Dick and Harry is asking me when are we going to have a baby, blah blah blah.”

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“But I decided I’m 35, and I’m still not thinking about it. So maybe I need to investigate what my options are for the future. People won’t get off my case about this.”

“And it is starting to really affect me mentally and making me think ‘what is wrong with me’ that I’m not the same as my friend or why do people keep asking me this.”

Lottie explained: “It’s not like when my mum was having all of us where people just get married and started having families.”

“It’s different now. Even in terms of the cost of living. And I did just buy my first home last year, and these are huge life moments in a different way than when our parents were having us.”

“It is important for people to just think before you speak. Asking those kinds of questions when you just don’t know what someone is going through, or the affect it will have on somebody for the rest of their day,” she added.

 

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