Malin Andersson candidly shared a health update in an emotional Instagram post on Wednesday morning.
The former Love Island star, 31, who has always been open with her followers, revealed that she was feeling lonely as she struggled to sleep with a health complaint.
While posing with no makeup and messy hair, the star shared the reality of being a mother as she sat on her bed, exhausted, after battling with her child to bed.
Malin has spent the last year focusing on her health and ‘internal healing’, after welcoming her daughter, Xaya, in January 2022.
In the very honest post, she looked away from the camera as she smiled sarcastically in her red, white and green reindeer pyjamas as she revealed she has been suffering from a hernia.
She captioned the post: ‘Wow look at that face.
‘Tired Ma with a hurting hernia.
‘I am posting on instagram at 3-40am so see if there are any mums up. it can feel sooooooooo lonely especially in the middle of the night. Throw Christmas into the mix with lack of sleep and Hermione the hernia it’s a no brainer.
‘So it took Xaya 2 hours to get to sleep.. and now she’s been up since 3am screaming to sleep in my bed. Now she’s in my bed because I’m so tired and have work to do tomorrow she isn’t sleeping she’s finding it so funny.
‘Is this a sleep regression or what the heck is it feel like I’ve gone back in time she’s 2 next month.
‘Anyways this one’s for my Mumma’s. I see you. The beauty I take from this is the gratitude to have Xaya in my life – especially over a period where grief hits me HARD!
‘Love you all x.’
Her almost 700,000 followers flooded her comments with support and stories of their own as parents from across the country sympathised with the doting mother.
One fan commented: ‘I feel you. Mine is 2 next month and the last 2 weeks he’s been so bad at going down for a nap and nighttime. We sleep trained before so he was really good at going down but this regression has by far been the worst.
‘2 weeks in and apparently this one can last up to 6 weeks… he went down at 7pm lash night after falling asleep during his milk (wouldn’t nap during the day) then was awake at 10pm for an hour and then 2am for an half hour. It’s so hard.
‘We both work FT and we’ve tried to co sleep but we can’t do it. I feel you but remember this will pass xxxx’
Another penned: ‘Never have to justify bringing little one into bed. Work or no work the next day, always do what you have to do to get through. Mummyhood is hard. Single-mummyhood is hard. We tend to go into justification mode because society judges. It’s hard not to. All that matters, though, is you and your little one.
‘And don’t spend too long worrying about whether it’s regression or what. They’re humans and go through phases. Each phase passes and you will both be fine. Again, just do what you need to get through.’
The update came after the TV personality went radio silent for weeks after she announced she was having a mammogram on her right breast.
Malin has since embarked on a healthy lifestyle and has spoken about the brutal trolling she received on Instagram following her recent weight loss, despite being clear about doing it healthily and feeling better than ever.
The brunette beauty recalled that she has ‘never known anything like it’ since making a healthy lifestyle change.
Her first daughter Consy was born seven weeks premature in December 2018 and was treated at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, but sadly passed away on January 22, 2019.
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