Jesy Nelson Shares Clip of Daughter with Feeding Tube After Revealing 8-Month-Old Twins' Severe Muscular Disease Diagnoses
- - Jesy Nelson Shares Clip of Daughter with Feeding Tube After Revealing 8-Month-Old Twins' Severe Muscular Disease Diagnoses
Escher WalcottJanuary 11, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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Jesy Nelson recently revealed that her twin daughters have been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Type 1
On Saturday, Jan. 10, she shared a video of one of her 8-month-old girls with a feeding tube on her Instagram Stories
The Little Mix alum shares her twin daughters, Ocean Jade and Story Monroe, with fiancé, Zion Foster
Jesy Nelson is spending quality time with her twin daughters after opening up about their rare health diagnoses.
On Saturday, Jan. 10, the Little Mix alum, 34, shared footage on her Instagram Stories of her playing with one of her baby girls. She shares her 8-month-old twin daughters, Ocean Jade and Story Monroe, with fiancé, Zion Foster.
Nelson is seen in the video sitting on the floor with one of her twin daughters opposite her in a baby chair. She playfully rubs her nose in her baby girl’s face as the infant lets out a high-pitched laugh in response.
“I’m so in love with her little laugh🥺,” Nelson wrote over the footage.
The clip came after Nelson recently announced that her twin daughters have been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Type 1.
SMA is a genetic neuromuscular condition that "causes worsening muscle weakness," according to the Cleveland Clinic. SMA Type 1 is diagnosed in 60% of cases, with symptoms arising within the first six months of life.
Nelson revealed that her twin daughters were diagnosed with SMA Type 1 in a video posted on Instagram on Sunday, Jan. 4.
The Little Mix alum — who welcomed her daughters with Foster, 27, on May 15, 2025 – said that the condition is “the most severe muscular disease that a baby can get." She said doctors told her that her daughters will “probably never gonna be able to walk,” and be “disabled” as a result.
“In the space of two weeks of getting their diagnosis … I have to put them on breathing machines and do lots of stuff that no mother really should ever have to do on their child,” she explained in the video.
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Jesy Nelson and Zion Foster with their baby daughters.
On Wednesday, Jan. 7, Nelson was interviewed for the first time since revealing her daughters' diagnoses on the U.K. talk show This Morning.
She spoke about feeling "overwhelmed" by the support she’s received since sharing her twins' conditions and that “my whole life has completely changed,” following their diagnoses, as they require 24-hour care from her and regular hospital visits.
She said that her twins, "have to have cough assist machines to help them cough, I have to put feeding tubes down their nose to like get out secretions off their chest.”
While on the talk show, she revealed that her daughter, Story, "has to be on a breathing machine at night because she isn't strong enough to breathe by herself at night."
"I've had to learn this within the space of a few days of getting their diagnosis, and it's just so much to deal with whilst you're also trying to deal with this like horrendous thing that's just happened,” said Nelson.
Nelson explained that she made a video about her twins’ diagnoses to raise awareness about SMA and hopefully encourage parents to detect the condition early and potentially save children’s lives.
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