Ashley Graham almost died while giving birth to her twins in January. She said she “blacked out” and suffered a “severe” hemorrhage.
The 34-year-old model was at home when she welcomed her baby boys, she said in a Glamour essay on Friday.
Twin sons Malachi and Roman were delivered while Graham was on the toilet and in the bathtub before she “blacked out.”
The “A New Model” author felt “a light touch” on her cheek, but it was actually “someone smacking the crap” out of her, PageSix reported.
The mother, who was with “a team of skilled, intelligent, and trained professionals,” and her husband Justin Ervin only remembers “seeing darkness and what seemed like stars.”
When the “American Beauty Star” host finally woke up, she “saw blood everywhere,” and she later learned that she’d “lost liters.”
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model explained, “They didn’t want to tell me that one of the midwives had to flip me over, press her finger down right above my vagina bone to try and stop the bleeding.”
“And they didn’t want to tell me that the vein in my arm kept collapsing, and they couldn’t get the needle in for the Pitocin, so they’d had to put it in my hand.”
While Graham and Ervin’s twin boys were “fine,” the former “America’s Next Top Model” judge laid in bed “for four straight days” and “couldn’t walk for a week.”
She spent close to two months at home.
Graham also hinted at a difficult birth in her announcement tweet, saying, “I’m taking some time to heal up and connect with my husband and three boys, but I truly cannot wait to share more with you all.”
She shared a picture of the twins on Instagram in February, telling her followers: “This has not been easy, but it’s so worth it.”
Graham is also the mother of son Isaac, 2.
