Ashley James has told fans she has been for her flu and whooping cough vaccinations after receiving her advice from her midwife.
The former Made In Chelsea star, 33, who is currently 32 weeks pregnant with her first child, explained that she went for the jabs after learning it will help to protect her and her unborn baby.
She told her followers on her Instagram Stories: ‘So out of breath from walking to the doctors. But I decided to go and get a flu jab and hooping cough vaccination following recommendation from my midwife.’
Advice: Ashley James has told fans she has been for her flu and whooping cough vaccinations after receiving her advice from her midwife
Revealing why she went for the jab, she said: ‘[It’s the] first time getting a flu jab since I was a child and had no choice, but basically I was told by my midwife that it’s advisable for pregnant women because our immune system are very low.
‘It needs to be low otherwise our bodies would reject the baby, so if we were to get flu it can be more severe.’
Ashley explained that she was told whooping cough has come back into circulation due to people refusing to get the vaccine for it.
Motherly love: The former Made In Chelsea star, 33, who is currently 32 weeks pregnant with her first child, explained that she went for the jabs after learning it will help to protect her and her unborn baby
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Chatting: Revealing why she went for the jab, she said: ‘[It’s the] first time getting a flu jab since I was a child and had no choice, but basically I was told by my midwife that it’s advisable for pregnant women because our immune system are very low’
‘So between a baby being born and getting it’s vaccinations it could get whooping cough and it can be fatal.’
‘So if we [pregnant women] get it (I think from 31-34 weeks of pregnancy, but ask your midwife or look online) and then it’s passed to the baby and will protect them.’
Ashley recently joined forced with Roxie Nafousi for a new podcast on ‘The Moments That Made Me’, where she admitted that while she believed finding fame would be the key to her happiness, in actual fact, it brought her a lot of misery.
Ashley first burst onto screens in 2012 when she joined the cast of reality TV phenomenon, Made In Chelsea.
She said: ‘It was something that I thought would be such a life changer, in that it would bring me everything I’d ever hoped for in terms of positivity and money and fame and all the things that I thought would make me happy.’
With high hopes that her new career in TV would bring her happiness, Ashley said: ‘it definitely made me realise that a lot of the things that we think will make us happy definitely don’t, and I suppose it was the beginning of my journey to self-love’
Ashley added: ‘I guess it was like this glamourous world that I was entering into and it was actually the beginning of one of the hardest times of my life in terms of finances, self-confidence, body dysmorphia, relationships stress, just everything.’
‘I thought fame would bring me happiness’: Ashley claimed becoming a celebrity dented her finances, self-confidence, body confidence and relationships
Not so glam: Ashley first burst onto screens in 2012 when she joined the cast of reality TV phenomenon, Made In Chelsea (pictured on the show)
But the mother-to-be said she learned a lot from her time on reality TV.
She said: ‘Being famous doesn’t always equal wealth, and wealth certainly doesn’t always equal happiness.’
Having spent six years living the life of a single lady in London, Ashley is now in a relationship with boyfriend Tommy, and the pair have a baby on the way.
Ashley’s relationship, and journey to motherhood combine as one defining moment.
Good news: Having spent six years living the life of a single lady in London, Ashley is now in a relationship with boyfriend Tommy, and the pair have a baby on the way
She said: ‘quite quickly I entered into a relationship, but one that I felt was quite healthy for the first time.’
Talking about having a lifestyle previously where she was fiercely independent, and enjoying spending her single life surrounded by good friends.
Ashley said: ‘it really made me realise that I’d built my whole existence on being single, being the single person. It was hard to get my head around that change.’
Touching on how things are now, Ashley’s conversation with Roxie closes on a huge positive.
She said: ‘Now we’re in this amazingly strong place and have a baby on the way. I feel like life has 360-ed from this time last year.’
Ashley James appears on the latest episode of ‘The Moments That Made Me’ with Roxie Nafousi, out on Wednesday 11 November 2020.