Charlotte Crosby suffers silent miscarriage just five months after her last

Charlotte Crosby has revealed she has suffered a silent miscarriage just five months after another pregnancy loss.

The former Geordie Shore star, 36, who shares daughters Alba and Pixi with her fiancé Jake Ankers, admitted she felt like her heart had been “ripped” out as she told fans about the devastating news.

Charlotte, from Sunderland, wrote on Instagram: “Last month, we got the news we’d been hoping for. We found out I was pregnant.

“There are no words to describe how happy we were. Being a mother is, without a doubt, the greatest gift life has ever given me.

“Nothing brings me more happiness than being a mam, and so the thought of growing our family filled Jake and I with so much happiness and excitement.

“Especially after experiencing a silent miscarriage earlier this year, this pregnancy came with a lot of mixed emotions and nerves. It was a combination of happiness and fear at the same time.

“I continued testing and the excitement I felt when the weeks kept going up was an indescribable feeling.”

Charlotte later shared an ultrasound image and added: “This was our six weeks five days. The moment we had been waiting for - that little heart beat.”

The influencer said her most recent pregnancy did not reach that far and so both she and Ankers “relaxed a little”.

She added: “We started really envisioning life as a family of five, a future with three kids.

“The nerves were still there deep down, as they are with every pregnancy, and to be honest those nerves never go. Even when your baby is in your arms.

“But we kept ourselves busy between the six and eight-week scans, filling our days with lots of fun adventures with the girls.

“Jake was our rock, as always. He held the fort, looked after us all, and filled the house with laughter and fun.”

But at her eight-week scan, Charlotte was told her baby’s heart had stopped beating.

She wrote: “Unfortunately on our eight week scan our world came crashing down, as we got the news we’d been petrified of all along, that the baby’s heart has stopped beating.

“It felt like someone had ripped our hearts out of our chests. We lost another baby, another silent miscarriage.”

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Charlotte then shared a photo of her two daughters and wrote: “We are incredibly lucky, and I can’t even explain how tight I’ve held these girls this last week.

“I love you both so much. My precious girls. Seeing them as big sisters was something me and Jake were made up about. They’d be the best most caring big sisters.

She added: “Last night was The Wave of Light, a global event held to mark the end of Baby Loss Awareness Week.

“And last night, everything just felt so heavy. The sadness felt heavy. The heartbreak felt heavy.

“I realised that maybe I haven’t really allowed myself to process everything.

“We would absolutely love to grow out family, however the fear of feeling this heartbreak again is terrifying.”

In May, Charlotte revealed she had another silent miscarriage, calling it “a pain and devastation that hurt so much”.

According to the NHS, a silent miscarriage, also called a missed miscarriage, is one that comes with no symptoms and is only discovered at a pregnancy scan.