Jesy's room of heartbreak

Documentary shows toys that her twin girls are unable to play with due to late SMA diagnosis

- BY MARK JEFFERIES Showbiz Editor

A SPARE bedroom in new mum Jesy Nelson's house tells a heartbreaking story.

It is half-full of the medical equipment needed to feed her twin daughters, with the other half taken up by toys they cannot play with.

The former Little Mix star gave birth last year to Ocean Jade and Story Monroe Nelson-Foster. They were later diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a rare condition that causes muscle wastage.

In a new documentary, Jesy’s mum Janice shows cameras the spare room and explains: “This is actually quite organised but it is all their stuff they can't use and all their medical stuff, their feeding tubes and stuff, but it upsets Jesy if she sees it downstairs, so we keep it up here.”

She then brings out a brand-new cuddly elephant rocking chair and adds: “It is all things we bought like toys, and nothing was suitable because everything has to be specialised because of their spines.

“I said, ‘you should donate them to the hospital and things, they need it’. Hopefully, someone else will get the benefit of them.”