Jesy Nelson breaks down discussing daughter's need for breathing machine

Jesy Nelson was overwhelmed with emotion and broke down in tears whilst revealing that one of her daughter now requires a breathing aid to sleep.

Over the weekend, the former Little Mix member disclosed that her seven-month-old twins Ocean Jade Nelson-Foster and Story Monroe-Nelson-Foster have been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and will "probably never walk".

At the time, she posted a video on Instagram, informing her followers that Ocean and Story have the most severe form of the condition, which causes muscles to deteriorate over time, and that she has now become a carer to the twins.

The pop star appeared on Wednesday's (7 January) edition of This Morning with presenters Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard, where she confessed that her "life has completely changed".

Speaking candidly in her first television interview, she said: "If you came to my house, it looks like a hospital. My whole hallway is filled up with medical stuff, and it's just crazy how you can go from one extreme to the next."

Clearly emotional, she disclosed: "Bless little Story [her daughter] she has to be on a breathing machine at night, because she isn't strong enough to breathe by herself at night."

"They have to have cough machines to help them cough, I have to put feeding tubes down their nose to get secretions off their chests.

"I've had to learn this literally in the space of a few days of getting their diagnosis and it's just so much to deal with while you're also trying to deal with this horrendous thing that's just happened."

In an emotional moment, she broke down in tears as she confessed: "I'm still struggling with it. I just want to be their mum, I don't wanna be a nurse and it's hard. I just want to reiterate that if this is caught from birth, it's just life changing."

The star subsequently disclosed that her twins had early symptoms of SMA, but she wasn't quick to recognise them as she was unaware of what they signified.

She explained: "That is the part that frustrates me the most. I knew and saw all of the signs before I knew what SMA was. It was weird because from when I was in NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit).

"The way they used to lay on my chest, they would have frog leg position. I did say to my mum, 'Isn't their belly an unusual shape? They breathe from their belly.'"

"That's what's frustrating - for me, if these were the cards I was always going to be dealt and there was nothing I could do about it, it would be easier for me to accept.

"But when you know there is something that can be done about it and it is life changing to your child, that's the bit that I cannot accept."

This Morning airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1 and ITVX.