Reality TV star Tori Spelling, weeks after giving birth to her fourth child, revealed that she was in in a fight for her life due to a threatening condition known as placenta previa during her latest pregnancy, Us Weekly reported.
Placenta previa is a complication of pregnancy in which the placenta grows in the lowest part of the uterus and covers all or part of the cervix, leading to internal bleeding.
Spelling, already mother to three children was diagnosed with the deadly disease only twenty weeks after conceiving her fourth child. The 39-year-old actress, stood between life and death underwent 10 weeks of treatment in the hospital and was on bed rest for four months.
"I just remember thinking, I can't leave three children behind," Spelling told Us Weekly.
The condition was caused partially by her unplanned fourth pregnancy, just one month after the birth of daughter Hattie and undergoing C-sections thrice.
"It was the second biggest shock of my life. The first was when they said [5-month-old] Hattie was a girl when she was born, because we thought she was going to be a boy," Spelling told People magazine after announcing her fourth pregnancy. "And the second was that I was pregnant after my newborn had just turned one month old. We were shocked."
The actress, who experienced nine massive bleeds, however welcomed her fourth addition, a baby boy named Finn Davey McDermott Aug.30.
"When they put him in my arms I was like, 'We made it.''" she told Us Weekly. "We have an insane bond. We've been through hell and back."
Three weeks after Finn's birth, the actress was rushed back to the hospital after her C-sections scars opened. She underwent successful emergency surgery.
"The Craft Wars" host's first marriage was with actor and playwright Charlie Shanian in 2004. Separating from Shanian, the actress married Dean McDermott in 2006. Apart from Finn, the couple have three children together: five-year-old Liam, four-year-old Stella (4) and 10-month-old Hattie. McDermott has a son, Jack from a previous marriage.
