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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Holly Patrick

Ellie Goldstein’s mother reveals nurse’s shocking comment after traumatic birth

Strictly Come Dancing star Ellie Goldstein’s mother recalled a shocking remark a nurse made after she went through a traumatic birth.

Yvonne Goldstein told Paul C Brunson’s We Need to Talk podcast that Ellie was “completely purple” when she was born, with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, and that when doctors diagnosed her with Down syndrome shortly after birth, they declared she would “never walk, talk or go to university.”

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