Myleene Klass shared a photo of herself in her iconic white bikini as she claimed she gets ‘more done in swimwear than MP’s do in power suits.’
The former Hear’Say singer, 45, made history in July by changing pregnancy loss laws, with changes meaning women will no longer have to wait until after three miscarriages to receive medical help and pre-conception advice.
She has spent four years campaigning for changes to UK miscarriage laws with Labour MP Olivia Blake.
Sharing a video to Instagram on Friday, Myleene defiantly said ‘it’s not what you wear but what you do while wearing it,’ as she hit back at critics who slammed her for the swimwear.
She wrote: ‘Don’t let the Bikini fool you. This has blown up on my stories and your DMs have me lolling, (except the Rishi in a bikini DM), so have put it here too.’
Famous: Myleene Klass, 45, shared a photo of herself in her iconic white bikini as she claimed she gets ‘more done in swimwear than MP’s do in power suits’
Amazing: The singer made history in July by changing pregnancy loss laws, with changes meaning women will no longer have to wait until suffering three miscarriages to receive help
Myleene continued: ‘Trigger: Business woman and MUM in a bikini. I fought to change the law for women and won. I beat Athletes and Olympians to be crowned jungle legend, donating £100k to @savethechildren.
‘I wrote a Sunday times best seller that continues to empower our children and save lives.
‘I’ve seen first hand what happens in parliament and how people conduct themselves and it’s pretty depressing and actually surprising anything gets done tbf!
‘I hold the longest running celebrity brand in the UK, I sell 1 item every 35 seconds (smashed the 45 secs record) giving others jobs and as the breadwinner for my kids, security…and its my body so criticise me all you want, I get more done in a bikini than MPs do in their sudo ‘power suits’.
‘It’s not what you wear, it’s what you do whilst you’re wearing it.’
Myleene recently recalled her experience suffering four ‘torturous’ miscarriages as she changed pregnancy loss laws and told of her delight as a string of changes were approved.
The changes were unveiled in the long-awaited Pregnancy Loss Review – an independent report on NHS miscarriage care and how it can be improved, which came after campaigning from baby loss charity Tommy’s, who Myleene works with.
Speaking about the milestone exclusively with MailOnline, Myleene bravely reflected on own devastating experience losing four babies and told how the changes would have helped her.
Inspiration: Sharing a video to Instagram on Friday, Myleene defiantly said ‘it’s not what you wear but what you do while wearing it,’ as she hit back at critics
Amazing: She has spent four years campaigning for changes to UK miscarriage laws with Labour MP Olivia Blake
Myleene detailed the ‘barbaric’ trauma she went through each time she had a miscarriage, telling how she was left ‘shaking with fear’ after being given the devastating news.
She explained how, soon after being told she had lost her child, she had to decide what she wanted the hospital to do with the foetal remains, detailing the trauma of the moment.
Detailing what changes needed to be made, she told MailOnline: ‘You’re standing there in your surgical socks shaking with the fear of it all and the upset, with your dead baby on the scan, and you’ve got to decide, “do I commit them to ashes at the tick of a box, or do I put them into a slide?”‘
‘How do you refer to the baby that’s been lost in the paper work you have to fill in? It’s torturous,’ she went on.
‘The products of pregnancy, “how would you like them to be disposed of? Would you like ashes and prayers or would you like slides and scientific contribution?”.
‘It’s barbaric and it’s all going to stop now. The fact I’ve been campaigning for it for years and now I’m actually saying there’s a full stop, it’s incredible.’
Myleene also recalled how she was expected to walk through a waiting room full of expectant mothers after being given the heartbreaking news of her miscarriage.
She said: ‘That suffering, sitting in a room and being told there’s no heartbeat and having to exit through a room of expectant mothers holding their scan photos, it’s barbaric!’
She told how charity Tommy’s will offer support after a first miscarriage and better mental health support.
Myleene was left heartbroken by her miscarriages, and described the experience as ‘isolating’ due to the ‘taboo’ surrounding baby loss, with women feeling unable to talk openly about it – despite it affecting one in four women, according to Tommy’s.
She confessed that for a long time, she felt unable to say the word ‘miscarriage’ and struggled to vocalise her experience, even while in the process of filming her 2021 Sky documentary, Miscarriage & Me.
‘On my first day of filming my miscarriage documentary, I couldn’t say “I’ve had a miscarriage”,’ she said.
‘I couldn’t say the word, they just kept the tape rolling until I could say the word miscarriage.
‘Even the terminology around women’s health and reproduction and sexual health, it’s so negative. A “mis-carriage” or a “failed pregnancy”, everything is already written to fail for us.’
Myleene praised the results of the review as she confessed she had ‘no clue’ what to do after her first miscarriage, criticising the taboo around baby loss.
‘I had no clue what to do after my first miscarriage, none,’ she admitted.
‘We discovered the women who miscarry have the same levels of PTSD as a soldier returning from Afghanistan nine months later – the cruel irony of nine months!
‘We’re letting women out there – who are more susceptible to suicide, who are extremely vulnerable, we’re not giving them a single pathway. This new 24/7 care will make sure they’re not sent to the wrong place.’
Myleene also detailed how ‘isolated’ she felt amid her miscarriages, telling how she felt she was left with nothing to hold on to from the pregnancy.
Upset: Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Myleene bravely reflected on own devastating experience losing four babies and told how the changes would have helped her
Family: Myleene has two daughters Ava, 15, and Hero, 12, with her ex-husband Graham Quinn and had ‘rainbow baby’ Apollo, three, with her fiancé Simon Motson after four miscarriages
‘The thing with miscarriage is it’s extremely isolating because you don’t have anything but a scan or a pregnancy stick or whatever you’ve built in your head,’ she said.
‘You don’t even have the memories to look back on, it is the memories that never were, you don’t have anything tangible, which is why it’s easier for many people to lock that pain away and expect women to disappear.’
Detailing how alone she felt after each of her four miscarriages, Myleene told how it was her friends and family who helped her through the difficult time.
She told how DJ Lauren Laverne was there for her, while she also reached out to Amanda Holden, who recommended her own midwife to help Myleene throughout her pregnancy with her ‘rainbow baby’ Apollo, now three.
