Fitness influencer reveals heartbreaking stillbirth: 'My life has changed forever'
WARNING: Distressing content
A popular fitness influencer has revealed she lost the baby she was carrying in a devastating Instagram update.
Sophie Guidolin, a self-described women's health and fitness expert, nutritionist and author who is based on the Gold Coast, shared the news in a series of posts and stories.
Sophie Guidolin has revealed she delivered a stillborn baby girl this week. Instagram
Guidolin, 33, who has four older children from a former relationship and recently found love again, said she delivered a stillborn daughter this week whom she named Pixie.
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Sophie Guidolin with baby daughter Pixie, who was stillborn. TikTok
Yesterday she shared the heartbreaking news, writing, "Trigger Warning. I know I have a lot of mums on my page and a lot of mums-to-be on my page.
"I cannot begin to articulate my pain, grief and despair through my entire soul. On Wednesday, January 25, a day I will never forget, my life was changed forever.
"I gave birth to a beautiful little girl, Pixie via C-section, stillborn."
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Sophie Guidolin and husband Dr Andrew Firgaira recently. Instagram
Guidolin continued, "I am trying to trust in God's timing and I have always believed that the universe has my back and no matter how confusing this all feels, I am trying to make sense of this grief with my faith."
She also admitted she felt "so guilty for my thoughts prior and I would do anything to have that pain, over this harrowing experience," — seemingly a reference to the difficult pregnancy she had as a result of a severe form of morning sickness.
She went on, "I don't even have the words on how to write or how to comprehend this," before she thanked her doctor and the team at the Gold Coast private hospital where she gave birth.
She also thanked family and friends for "literally dropping everything to fly to be with me in the hardest time of my life."
She ended the post, "Maybe some souls were always meant to be angels. Pixie, I love you."
Guidolin created a fitness empire THE BOD with former husband Nathan Wallace, who is the father of her four older children, before they split.
She told 9Honey recently she had been friends with her new husband, dentist Dr Andrew Firgaira, a father-of-two, for 10 years before they became a couple.
After a whirlwind romance, the pair married on November 11, 2022.
They announced they were expecting their first child together on December 18, 2022.