Emma Waymouth is Britain's first ever mixed race marianist now living on a 160 million pound EST state after marrying into the aristocracy but despite her glamorous lifestyle Private health woes left her in agonizing pain Strictly Come Dancing 2019 star Emma Waymouth struggled to hold back tears before embracing model Abby Clancy as she opened up on her terrifying Health Battle during pregnancy one which she is unsure if she'll ever recover from talking to Abby Clancy on her celebrity home show the 37-year-old confided that something had gone severely wrong with her pituitary gland when I was pregnant I had these severe headaches to the point where I was lying in bed on my side braced in pain in agony like there was a knife in my head I was in so much pain she winced my pituitary gland had swollen up and had had a bleed so that's why it was so painful and obviously your pituitary gland is a master gland so the longer it's swollen up the longer it's inflamed and malfunctioning the more dangerous it is for you Emma continued that shed feared for the life of her baby while Medics were concerned about her personally I am trying to save my baby and they're really trying to save me and it was a whole emotionally terrifying thing she recalled laughing hysterically for a moment before apologizing and trying to stop herself from crying covering her hands with her eyes she exclaimed I don't want to cry and ruin my lovely makeup but it's all good to share those stories because in Sharing someone shares back Abby who is also 37 looked concerned as she mused people take it for granted how easy it is to have kids Emma concluded I don't think it'll ever recover from my pregnancy illness actually that's why I am so grateful for my child life is so precious the pituitary gland is a small psize gland found at the base of a person's brain which controls various hormones affecting functions such as human growth and Metabolism according to the Medscape website it usually increases in size during pregnancy due to an elevated blood supply but its function tends to remain normal in Emma's case it didn't and rare conditions such as hypophysitis which she was diagnosed with can cause severe pain and ill health Pacific pituitary Disorder Center clarifies that hypophysitis typically results in varying degrees of pituitary gland failure the experience which took place during her first pregnancy with son John in 2014 was so difficult that she was advised it would be too dangerous to attempt another natural birth