Former Little Mix star Jesy Nelson gives birth to premature twins after complicated pregnancy
18 May 2025, 11:00 | Updated: 18 May 2025, 12:18
Jesy Nelson has announced she has given birth to twins named Ocean and Story at 31 weeks after an induced labour in a London hospital.
Listen to this article
Loading audio...
Nelson said in a joint post on Instagram with her partner, Zion Foster, at 10am on Sunday morning: "Our beautiful baby girls decided to come at 31weeks plus 5 days. It all happened so quickly, but we are so blessed that they are here with us, healthy and fighting strong!"
"We've never felt so in love."
The twins are named Ocean Jade Nelson-Foster and Story Monroe Nelson-Foster.
The babies were born on Thursday May 15.
Read More: Made In Chelsea star welcomes baby boy and reveals new name
Nelson has been open online about the complications she experienced during pregnancy. She explained the twins were 'living off one placenta' due to pre-stage TTTS (twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome).
Her partner Zion Foster took part in the London Marathon in April 2025 to raise money for Twins Trust charity.
Nelson rose to fame as a member of girlband Little Mix after the group were formed on the eighth series of The X Factor.
She has been open online about her struggles with body image, mental health and online bullying.
Nelson said in March that she had undergone a "successful" operation to prevent complications related to twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), which affects identical twins who share a placenta.
She had said: "Hey guys, so we just wanted to give you guys an update, because we know it's been a while.
"I don't know if you can see, we are still in hospital so I've been recovering, but we have some amazing news.
"The TTTS has cleared up, the operation was a success, which is just absolutely incredible. We are so, so lucky to have the most amazing doctors.
"Basically, the situation we're in now is my cervix is very, very short, so I can't leave the hospital because my waters could break at any point and I'm still very, very early.
"I can't leave the hospital until I'm a certain amount of weeks, so every week we're just like, 'please, please, please, stay in there'."
Nelson announced her pregnancy in January.
She has previously said her twins were monochorionic diamniotic (MCDA), meaning they share a single placenta but have their own separate sacs.
According to the NHS website, TTTS affects 10 to 15% of identical twins who share a placenta, and it "can have serious consequences".
The condition is caused by abnormal connecting blood vessels in the twins' placenta which leads to an imbalanced blood flow from one twin, known as the donor, to the recipient twin, leaving one baby with a greater blood volume than the other.
The singer left Little Mix in December 2020 after nine years in the successful girl group, which was formed on The X Factor in 2011, and also featured Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall.
After she left, Nelson released her first solo single, Boyz, featuring Nicki Minaj, in 2021, followed by Bad Thing in 2023.
