Lauren Goodger has revealed her family have tested positive for Covid-19.
The reality star took to her Instagram Stories on Saturday to share the news that she had contracted the virus, along with her boyfriend Charles Drury and their baby daughter Larose.
Sharing a video of her baby girl, the 35-year-old wrote: “My unwell baby. Us 3 are all sick with covid.”
She also posted a photo of three positive antigen tests, writing: “This Covid got us 3.”
Earlier this year, Lauren sparked serious backlash online after saying she wouldn’t get vaccinated against the virus.
In an Instagram Live, the former TOWIE star said: “I am more scared of the vaccine than I am of the virus. I will start imagining that I am dying.”
“I am terrified. I don’t like taking medicine. I don’t like taking antibiotics. OK, I do do aesthetics and even now I am still nervous of that – I am like that in general. Even with a facial I want to know what is in it. That is my anxiety over the years.”
Lauren continued: “I just feel that it hasn’t been around long enough and we don’t know enough about it. I think I have had Covid and if I was to get ill I would treat it how I would treat it. I didn’t die from it. It is like getting it a cold. I wouldn’t get the flu jab either.”
“I don’t want to inject myself with something I don’t know the longterm effects. I have heard all the different things that are in it and I think I have had Covid already and I have coped with it.”
The mum-of-one said: “I am not going to say you should not have it. Each to their own. Good luck. That is my personal opinion though. At the end of the day I am not going to talk about it as I know what I know. You can catch a cold, you can catch anything.”
Lauren also claimed she is “exempt” from wearing a face covering, and said: “I don’t believe in masks.”
“When I have a mask on and I walk I can’t wear one as I get into a panic. I do have an exempt card but I don’t use it as it is a bit muggy,” she added.
Following her comments, Piers Morgan said on Good Morning Britain: “Lauren Goodger, who I’m informed is a TOWIE babe, has gone public having a go about the Covid vaccine on the day we discovered a million people in this country have the virus and we’re obviously in a desperate situation.”
“She said she’s terrified of the vaccine and has already had Covid and didn’t die, so obviously it’s not a problem.”
“She said I don’t like taking medicine or antibiotics. Lauren said: ‘I’m more scared of the vaccine than I am the virus’… really? She said: ‘I don’t like taking medicine, I won’t take antibiotics but I do do aesthetics’… what?”
Piers went on to question what Lauren has been “shoving in her face” over the past few years, referring to her cosmetic enhancements.
“Where does that come from, Lauren? What have you been injecting into those lips? Did you check where it came from or check what it is?”
The GMB host added: “These people are absolute half-wits. They’re quarter-wits. They are getting attention on social media. They are already giving their views to millions of impressionable people and they’re not getting challenged.”
“My point is these reality stars are stuffing their faces with plastic fillings, surgery and injections and so on and then banging on about vaccines. It’s ridiculous. Do not listen to these imbeciles. It will cost lives.”
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