For so long we've been invisible. Now we're front and centre

Myleene Klass talks to Psychologies editor Sally Saunders about miscarriage, her MBE, and breaking down taboos.

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There are a few times when I've pinched myself, metaphorically speaking at least, since working at Psychologies.

But perhaps none more so than when I sat discussing my two miscarriages with Myleene Klass. For one thing, I've probably only discussed those experiences in detail with a handful of people. I've tried to shield my two older children from it, and since we had the joyful good fortune of following two devastating miscarriages with two wonderful rainbow babies, I've felt forced to kowtow to the usual, sociallyaccepted narrative of keeping quiet, moving on, trying to leave that pain in the past.

But speaking to Klass, recounting my experience of first a chemical pregnancy (lost just a few days after a positive pregnancy test) followed, a few months later, by a truly heartrending missed miscarriage that wasn't picked up until our scheduled 12-week scan, it all came flooding back, I shared it with her, and now, with you. This is the power Klass has, and why she was recognised a few weeks ago in the New Year's Honours List with an MBE: she is bringing miscarriage out of the shadows and smashing the taboo around this most female of issues.

Of course, the classical musician-turned popstar-turned-campaigner wouldn't have chosen to become known for this subject at this stage in her career. 'I never set myself on this, this pathway. In fact, it was something I definitely shied away from at first,' she explains.

She first told us the story of her miscarriages, and the anxiety they added to her subsequent pregnancy back in 2021. She appeared in Psychologies back then, at the start of her campaigning journey, as she released her documentary, Myleene: Miscarriage and Me.

'I really had to think long and hard about if this was something that I could relive, retell, keep ripping that Band Aid off,' she explains now.