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I’m A Celebrity’s Oti Mabuse fights back tears over cruel trolling for leaving baby daughter to go to work
Oti was seen breaking down in tears over being separated from her premature baby daughter
I'M A Celebrity star Oti Mabuse fought back tears tonight over cruel trolling for leaving her one-year-old daughter for work.
Strictly pro Oti, 34, who welcomed a girl with husband Marius Lepure last December, opened up to Coleen Rooney about family life.
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Sat in camp, Oti said: "Because I’m a dancer, it was really difficult to say when I would start having a family because my body is my job and also you have to be financially ready.”
Speaking of her work, she said: “Eventually I’ll have to give all of this up and just dedicate my life to them because I want to be there, I want to do the school run.”
Mum-of-four Coleen said of motherhood: “You can still be a strong individual, dedicating your life to that.”
Oti agreed and said: “I think there’s this preconceived notion that when you’re a housewife you’ve got no ambition.”
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As Coleen admitted: “I come across a lot of women who find it easy to come to work and find it hard being a mum.”
This then prompted Oti to open up about her own experience with the trolling she received when she returned to the Dancing on Ice judging panel just two months after giving birth.
She shared: “When I had my daughter, I went back to work, I did Dancing on Ice and she was eight weeks and the amount of messages and trolling from women who were like ‘stay home with your baby’ ‘why are you out?’ and I was just like, it's my choice.”
Oti said in the Bush Telegraph of the trolling she experienced: “I find it very difficult to not let those comments get to me, because I’m human.”
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Coleen reassured her: “On the outside world you can’t win, everyone has got an opinion. I always say don’t take it to heart because every individual is different.”
Earlier this week, Oti was seen breaking down in tears over being separated from her premature baby daughter.
Oti was talking to Reverend Richard Coles, and during the exchange she revealed details about her daughter’s birth.
Oti gave birth to her daughter prematurely in December last year.
Her little girl arrived two months early and the Dancing On Ice judge endured a traumatic 16-hour labour.
The baby spent the next six weeks in neonatal care at University College London Hospital as she was born with an infection after Oti developed sepsis.
Discussing the ordeal with Richard, Oti fought back tears, as she said: “They find comfort in your voice. For two months, every single day we'd sing church music.”
Oti explained her daughter was in an incubator and she’d sign to her and use her voice in order to connect.
She went on: “My daughter was really, really tiny when she was born. It's hell. It's hell to be in the hospital, to hear those sounds, to not see your baby's eyes for a week, it's hell to constantly look for advice from the doctors.”
“Every night, you need to leave them, you need to leave your baby in someone else's hands,” she continued.
Pro dancer Oti then asked if Reverend Richard would say a prayer for her little girl.
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He replied: “I've already said a prayer for her actually,” and she thanked him with tears in her eyes.
In February, Oti thanked the NHS for saving her daughter's life and revealed to The Sun On Sunday that she and Marius were even given therapy because of their ordeal.
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