Perrie Edwards breaks down over devastating baby losses
The singer has shared an emotional account of pregnancy loss, motherhood and the fears she faced before welcoming her second child with footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Perrie Edwards has spoken through tears about the two miscarriages that shaped her journey to motherhood.
Describing the loss of a baby at 24 weeks as “traumatic” and recalling the heartbreak of “having to give birth to a child that you can't take home”, the singer, 32, opened up about her experiences during an appearance on Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast.
The former Little Mix singer shares son Axel, four, and daughter Alanis Valentine with footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, with the couple welcoming Alanis in January 2026 after enduring two pregnancy losses, including one less than a year after Axel was born.
Speaking to Jamie, Perrie explained that her two experiences of baby loss felt very different, saying: “I know that sounds awful. Then it kind of freaked me out moving forward. My whole pregnancy with Axel I was scared to get attached.”
Reflecting on the pregnancy that followed, Perrie said she gradually became more confident after reaching key milestones.
She added: “That got me feeling a bit more positive, I was like, ‘right, I can do this. I've birthed a human. I've done it once. I can do it again’. And then we got pregnant again.”
The singer explained she became pregnant for a second time while Little Mix were on their farewell Confetti tour in 2022. By that stage, she said, she felt secure in the belief that everything would be fine.
Perrie said: “We'd named him. And again, I was attached. But because I just had Axel, I wasn't living in the headspace of, ‘oh, something could happen’. I was just like, ‘I've just done this and I'm doing it again. And I love it’.
“So I wasn't even thinking anything was going to go wrong until it went wrong. And that was traumatic.”
As she became emotional during the interview, Perrie stressed no miscarriage should be viewed as easier than another.
She said: “I feel like when you're that far along and you have to have the procedure, it's just different. No way to have a miscarriage is easy. If it happens at the beginning, it's not easier than it happening further down the line.”
The singer then broke down while recalling the reality of losing a baby so late into pregnancy, recalling the horror of “having to give birth to a child that you can’t take home”.
Perrie also explained the experience left her fearful about trying for another baby.
She said: “It took me a while to want to go again. And I always knew I wanted more children... I wanted Axel to have siblings but I just didn't have it in me to get pregnant again.
“I was just terrified, I thought it’s probably best to just leave it so that’s why there’s such a big gap now between like Axel and Alanis.
“It’s not a huge gap but it's not the gap I wanted, it took me a lot to get over what happened to try again.”
The singer also revealed the trauma affected her most recent pregnancy, despite her long-standing love of being pregnant.
Fighting back tears, she said: “That upsets me because I love being pregnant. I love the feeling of it. I love carrying a baby. I feel powerful. I feel like untouchable. It's wild how you feel that I'm sad during the pregnancy, I didn't get to enjoy it fully until the very end really.”
Perrie and Alex announced the arrival of Alanis in January, marking a joyful new chapter after years of personal heartbreak and recovery.
The singer has previously described Axel as her “rainbow baby” after suffering an earlier miscarriage, and in recent months has been balancing motherhood with her solo music career following Little Mix’s hiatus.
The singer remains best known as one-quarter of Little Mix alongside Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Jesy Nelson, with the group becoming one of Britain’s most successful pop acts after winning The X Factor in 2011.
