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Jesy Nelson Brings Her Twin Babies Home After 3 Months in Hospital

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Jesy Nelson and her twin girls have finally made it home, just in time for her 34th birthday, after she and the babies collectively spent three months in the hospital
“My babies made it home for my birthday 🥹🤍,” Nelson wrote on Instagram, alongside a black-and-white photo of herself gazing at her daughters
The Little Mix alum and boyfriend Zion Foster welcomed their twins, Ocean and Story, on May 15, weeks after Nelson was admitted to the hospital in March due to her high-risk pregnancy

Jesy Nelson and her baby girls have finally made it home!

On Saturday, June 14, the Little Mix alum shared in an Instagram post that she and the twin daughters she shares with boyfriend Zion Foster — named Ocean and Story — were discharged from the hospital, just in time for Nelson’s 34th birthday.

“My babies made it home for my birthday 🥹🤍,” Nelson wrote, alongside a black-and-white photo of herself gazing at her daughters.

The news came after Nelson spent months in the hospital during her pregnancy after her doctors discovered the twins were monochorionic diamniotic (MCDA), meaning they shared a single placenta.

The baby girls were eventually born at 31 weeks on May 15, the singer previously announced, and had been in the hospital since then.

Nelson first revealed her pregnancy on Instagram on Jan. 12, sharing a Polaroid-style photo of herself and her musician boyfriend with the caption: “She’s eating for 3 now 👶👶.”

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Months later, in March, Nelson spoke about the twins’ medical condition, explaining in an emotional video at the time that “one baby might take all the nutrients” from the placenta, or “the other might, which — really awful to say — could lead to both babies dying.”

A few days later, Nelson shared an update in which she revealed she was experiencing symptoms that doctors had advised her to “watch out for,” including her stomach tightening and difficulty breathing. She captioned the video “TTTS update,” referring to twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.

After a checkup at the hospital, Nelson said doctors determined that “they have to perform [a] procedure” to fix the twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome — “which is obviously not what we wanted to happen.” She added, “But it’s necessary because it’s going to give our babies the best chance of surviving.”

In April, Nelson shared an update on her emergency procedure on her Instagram Stories, filmed from her hospital room.

“We just wanted to come on here because we are another week further along and we feel so grateful and blessed that these little babies are still going strong,” she said at the time.

Jesy Nelson and Zion Foster with their twins.

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The “Boyz” singer finally revealed in a May 18 Instagram post that she had welcomed her twins.

“So … Our beautiful baby girls decided to come at 31 weeks plus 5 days,” she and Foster wrote in the caption of the joint post. “It all happened so quickly, but we are so blessed that they are here with us, healthy and fighting strong! We’ve never felt more in love 🥹.”

“Everybody, meet Ocean Jade Nelson-Foster and Story Monroe Nelson-Foster. Born on 15.05.2025 🌊📖,” the proud parents added.

Nelson has shared a few updates since then, including another lengthy Instagram post in which she opened up about what it was like to watch her children stay in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for weeks on end.

“Nothing or no one will ever be able to prepare you as a parent for NICU,” she wrote in part on May 25. “It’s the most scary overwhelming feeling of emotions not being able to feel like you can protect your babies.”

“But slowly as the days go by and they get stronger and wires start to come away, moments like this feel like a dream,” she continued. “Having them reunited for the first time ever today was the most magical feeling I will never be able to describe 🥹 the strongest little girls I’ve ever known who really do have the most inspiring story to tell 🤍.”

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Author Cheryl Strayed reveals husband Brian Lindstrom has ‘serious, fatal illness’

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Author Cheryl Strayed has revealed that her husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, has been diagnosed with a “serious, fatal illness.”

The 57-year-old writer, whose memoir “Wild” was adapted into a 2014 film starring Reese Witherspoon as Strayed, apologized to fans as she was forced to cancel her upcoming appearances amid her husband of 25 years’ health battle.

“My beloved husband Brian has been diagnosed with a serious, fatal illness,” she wrote on Instagram on Thursday.

“For that reason I had to cancel my writing workshop at Kripalu and also my appearance at Hunter College this week,” Strayed added.

“My apologies to those of you who made plans to be there. I simply cannot do anything but be with my family right now and see to our broken hearts.

“I ask that you hold us in your thoughts, prayers, light and love.”

Strayed said it may feel “emotionally dissonant” to see her posting “cheerful clips” from her podcast, “Mind Over Mountain,” amid the news.

“Those interviews, which I loved doing, were recorded previously, in easier, happier times,” she clarified.

Strayed is the author of “Torch,” “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail,” “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar” and “Brave Enough.”

“Tiny Beautiful Things,” based on her advice column, was adapted into a 2023 Hulu series starring Kathryn Hahn, while “Wild” earned Witherspoon an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Strayed during her Pacific Crest Trail hike.

Documentarian Lindstrom is known for directing 2013’s “Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse” and 2022’s “Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill.”

He and Strayed also co-directed the 2019 film “We Are Forbidden.”

The couple met in 1995 and shares two adult children, Bobbi Strayed Lindstrom and Carver Strayed Lindstrom.

“Met this beautiful man 27 years ago today — literally half my lifetime ago,” Strayed wrote in a 2022 Facebook post.

“The next day I wrote in my journal: ‘I met a man named Brian Lindstrom last night. I don’t know who he is, but I think he’ll be someone to me.’ Little did I know how right I’d be. And how lucky.”

Strayed has frequently spoken about her husband’s support throughout her career.

“There’s no doing it without him,” she told The Great Discontent in 2012.

“When I was writing ‘Torch,’ he believed in me more than I believed in myself. He’s always, always, always been there for me, every time I needed him. He encourages me. He believes in me.”

“He’s an amazing person and an amazing filmmaker,” she added.

“Many people ask us if we’re jealous of each other or competitive because we’re both artists. We’re always mystified by that because we support each other in every way.”

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Patriots QB Drake Maye finally breaks silence on Mike Vrabel, Dianna Russini photo scandal

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New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has finally broken his silence on coach Mike Vrabel’s photo scandal with sports reporter Dianna Russini.

“Yeah, we’re here for Coach, we love Coach,” the athlete told WHDH-TV 7News in Boston Wednesday. “What he does for us, what he’s done for us this past year, you can’t speak into words, and just thankful he’s our head coach.”

Maye, 23, added that although he knows Vrabel is “dealing with some stuff off the field and out of the coaching world,” he and his teammates are “here for him.”

“I know he’s gonna come back,” he shared.

The NFL star’s comment comes nearly a month after Page Six released exclusive photos of Vrabel, 50, and Russini, 43, holding hands and hugging at a luxury resort in Sedona, Arizona.

The coach and the sportscaster — who are both married to other people — insisted they were joined by other friends at the resort, despite multiple eyewitnesses disputing their claims.

“These photos show a completely innocent interaction and any suggestion otherwise is laughable. This doesn’t deserve any further response,” Vrabel told us in a statement at the time.

Russini said in her own statement, “The photos don’t represent the group of six people who were hanging out during the day. Like most journalists in the NFL, reporters interact with sources away from stadiums and other venues.”

Despite their denials, Russini was sidelined by the New York Times and then resigned from her position as senior NFL insider at the Athletic.

For his part, Vrabel announced that he would not be with his team for Day 3 of the 2026 NFL Draft to focus on family and personal matters and seek counseling.

A day later, Page Six published photos of Vrabel and Russini cozying up together at a dimly-lit New York City bar in 2020 — six years before their Arizona resort outing.

“They were kissing and they were all over each other,” an eyewitness told Page Six. “He had a ring on.”

At the time, Mike was already married to his wife, Jen Vrabel, while Russini was set to say “I do” to her now-husband, Shake Shack executive Kevin Goldschmidt, just six months later.

Following the release of the latest batch of photos, Russini deleted her social media accounts.

Page Six also exclusively reported that the pics prompted Mike and his wife, Jen, to have an emergency 24-hour marriage summit in Park City, Utah.

Mike and Russini each share two children with their respective spouses.

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