Charlotte Crosby, the 36-year-old Geordie Shore star, has described a beach near Newcastle as having sands so white it feels "as if you were in the Maldives." Speaking on The Travel Diaries podcast, Crosby highlighted South Shields beach, just 25 minutes from Newcastle, as a local gem.
Beach Comparison to the Maldives
When asked which part of her local area she would recommend, Crosby praised the region's beaches. She said: "All of our beaches are absolutely gorgeous… [A] beach that I actually absolutely love because the sands are basically white, they’re not like browny muddyish. It’s not a pebble beach, but we have got a pebble beach, but South Shields has got white sands like basically it’s as if you were in the Maldives. I might be exaggerating a little bit, but it’s white in comparison to other UK beaches and it has the best fairground. All year round."
Personal Health Journey
Earlier this year, Crosby, a mother-of-two, revealed she experienced a silent miscarriage eight weeks into her pregnancy with her third child. According to the charity Tommy's, a silent or missed miscarriage "happens when your baby dies in your womb, but you don’t have any symptoms of miscarriage, such as bleeding or pain." They added that it takes longer for pregnancy hormones to drop, delaying physical symptoms.
Speaking on ITV's This Morning, Crosby described the fear during the wait after an ultrasound: "In those two weeks, it was the worst fear….I would go to bed and I would kind of think, 'oh, what if it's going to happen? I've never had a miscarriage.' I would go to bed thinking it might happen through the night and I was worried about the pain."
Call for More Support for Men
Crosby also addressed the impact on her fiancé Jake Ankers, emphasizing the need for more support for men in such situations. She said: "It really affected him quite badly. He was really sad for a long time and would just cry quite a lot. I felt bad for him because I think for men, you don't really, I think there needs to be more for men who take things like that quite.. (they need) more support."
Statistics indicate that around one in four pregnancies in the UK ends in miscarriage each year.
