Pregnant Charlotte Crosby breaks down in tears after family heartache and ‘very little sleep’

PREGNANT Charlotte Crosby has been seen breaking down in tears after suffering a family heartache and “very little sleep”.

The Geordie Shore star took to her Instagram stories to detail how she had suffered four sleepless nights over her dog, Banana.

Charlotte, 32, revealed that she had been trying to train her dog to sleep in a crate ahead of the arrival of her first baby.

But it had meant that the expectant mother – who is soon due to welcome her baby girl with Jake Ankers – hadn’t been sleeping.

“I’m running on very little sleep and I’ve had a very long day,” she told her followers. “I look so tired, don’t I?”

Charlotte went on to explain that Banana had been crying and barking through the night, leaving her totally “exhausted”.

It has been a difficult time for the reality TV star – who recently revealed her family heartache when her mum Letitia was told she has breast cancer.

In an exclusive interview with The Sun, she revealed that Letitia, 53, was diagnosed with the disease after a routine check up.

“Mam had no symptoms,” she explained. “There were no signs.”

Letitia, who starts chemotherapy and radiotherapy in a fortnight, continued: “It was just a routine mammogram, I have never missed one. When they told me it was cancer I was floored.

“I no symptoms, no lumps, nothing. The mammogram has helped save my life – they should be inviting women of all ages to one every single year. Not just women over 50.”

Charlotte, along with her dad, Gary, 54, and little brother Nathaniel, 17, rallied around Letitia in the days which followed – including a series of painful biopsies and scans on the 11 millimetre tumour in her breast.

Charlotte discovered a lump just days after Letitia’s diagnosis.

She added: “I became so much more aware of my own body. And then I found a lump literally just after mum was diagnosed.

“I went to get it checked out straight away – it was nothing bad.”

It was only when Letitia called upon Charlotte’s boyfriend and the father of her child Jake Ankers to sit Charlotte down and explain that the news sunk in.

Letitia said: “It was so difficult to tell Charlotte I had cancer.

“We had all the happy news a couple of months before that she was having the baby.

“We were all so happy. We had so many things to look forward to.

“So telling her I had cancer when she was pregnant was so hard. All I was thinking about was my first grandchild and then you get the diagnosis and it just overshadows it.”