"They could die before the age of 2!" Jesy Nelson talks about her daughters

Photo: Jesy Nelson, Zion Foster/ Instagram/ "Great Company Podcast"

During yesterday's episode of Jamie Laing's "Great Company" podcast, Jesy Nelson spoke a little more about her daughters' condition and explained their illness.

"So spinal muscular atrophy is a muscle-damaging disease, and it happens because they don't have a gene that we all have in our bodies. Because of that, their muscles are getting damaged and weakened. If you don't treat them in time, the muscles will totally weaken, which affects breathing, swallowing and everything else, and they can die before the age of 2," she said during the podcast.

Despite the difficulties, she said she was trying to accept the situation and do her best. The challenges are great, but she believes her daughters are very strong.

"I truly believe that they will defy any odds, because they already have. They were in my womb and they had TTTS (Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome)." 

Explanation: TTTS (Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome) is a condition where twins who share a placenta receive unequal amounts of blood and nutrients, compromising their development. 

"I see everything from a completely different perspective, they experienced TTTS and also had SMA, yet they continued to fight every challenge," the singer said of her twins.

Jesy Nelson and her ex-fiancé, Zion Foster, became parents to twin girls in May of last year. A month earlier, in an Instagram video, she revealed that her daughters had been diagnosed with SMA Type 1, the most severe form of the muscular disease that can affect a baby. She described the past three months as the most painful time of her life, but she was grateful that her girls were still alive.