Ashley Graham revealed her husband Justin Ervin had a vasectomy after she nearly died of a horrible hemorrhage while giving birth to their twin sons last year.
The 35-year-old supermodel made the reveal on the Milk Drunk podcast as she opened up about raising three children under the age of four and her spouse, 34.
When asked if she actually plans on having a fourth child after joking about wanting another one this year, the beauty clarified that her husband is in “full vasectomy mode”.
“Thank god I don’t have to take a pill,” she gushed, before noting that the procedure was relatively painless for Ervin, who went shopping with her straight away.
While she didn’t reveal further what influenced her decision to have him operated on, the two already share sons Isaac, three, and Roman and Malachi, both one.
Full house: Ashley Graham revealed that her husband Justin Ervin had a vasectomy after she nearly died of a horrible hemorrhage while giving birth to their twin sons last year
No more birth control needed: The 35-year-old supermodel made the reveal on the Milk Drunk podcast as she opened up about raising three kids under the age of four and her spouse, 34, and “shooting brutes.”
In May, Graham, who suffered a devastating first trimester miscarriage just 11 months before giving birth to her twins, wrote a candid essay for Glamor about her complicated labour.
Shortly after the twins arrived, she recalled suddenly starting to bleed and quickly losing consciousness.
This forced her birth team into a desperate attempt to save her life.
Due to the horrific incident, she was bedridden for four days and unable to walk for a week.
She added that the aftermath of almost losing her life was “deeply overwhelming” and that the whole experience changed her relationship with her body once and for all, taking away the confidence and positivity that her career as a child needed the world’s first plus-size supermodel.
Family of five: When asked if she actually plans on having a fourth child after joking about wanting another one this year, the beauty clarified that her husband is in ‘full vasectomy mode’ may be.
“Thank god I don’t have to take a pill,” she gushed, before noting that the procedure was relatively painless for Ervin, who went shopping with her straight away
“I was bleeding the night I gave birth to the twins,” she recalls.
“It was 2am when my labor started. At 3:45 am I went to the bathroom thinking I needed the bathroom and Malachi came out just as my doula arrived, in time to deliver him.’
Roman was born two hours and seven minutes later, and initially Graham said she and her husband – who also shares son Isaac, two – and their “skilled” and “intelligent” medical team were “all celebrating”.
“We couldn’t believe my labor lasted only three and a half hours and I was so incredibly grateful to this team of qualified, intelligent and trained professionals around me who were there for me when I had Isaac and now, with me back for the twins,” she gushed.
However, their excitement soon turned to fear when Graham suddenly collapsed.
Scary birth: In May, Graham, who suffered a devastating first trimester miscarriage just 11 months before the arrival of her twins, wrote a candid essay for Glamor about her complicated birth (to be seen in 2019)
New mom: The star and her husband share sons Isaac, three, and year-old twins Roman and Malachi
“The next thing you know, I looked at my midwife and said, ‘I’m not feeling well. I think I need to lie down,” she recalled.
“All I can remember is feeling a light touch on my cheek which I later found out actually someone slapped the shit out of my cheek, someone held my hand, my husband Justin in my ear, praying, and someone pricked me with a needle in my arm.
“And I remember seeing darkness and what looked like stars. When I finally came to, I looked around and saw everyone.
“They kept saying to me, ‘You’re fine. You are OK. You’re fine.” They didn’t want to tell me that I’d lost gallons of blood.
“They didn’t want to tell me that one of the midwives had to turn me over and press her finger right over my vaginal bone to try and stop the bleeding.
“And they wouldn’t tell me that the vein in my arm kept collapsing and they couldn’t get the needle for the pitocin in, so they had to put it in my hand.
“But even though they didn’t want to go into detail at that moment, I looked around the room, saw blood literally everywhere, and let out this deep, visceral scream — an emotional release from the chaos I’d just experienced.”
Graham explained that she couldn’t even sit up – let alone walk – so doctors carried her to her bed on a sheet.
She stayed in bed for four days straight and didn’t leave her house for “almost two months.”
“The midwives asked me if I could get up and go to bed. I could not. I couldn’t sit up or even crawl,” she continued.
Terrifying: Shortly after the twins’ arrival, she recalled suddenly starting to bleed and quickly losing consciousness (seen in March)
“So they got a double bed sheet and rolled me on it and wheeled me down the hall to my guest room where I had a pull out bed that I could barely roll onto.
“Thank goodness the twins were fine while I was on this bed for four days. I couldn’t walk for a week. And I haven’t left my house for almost two months.’
However, the mother-of-three called it a time of “joy, learning and laughter, acceptance and recovery.”
She said: “It has been a time of joy to be with my husband and three sons, the rhythm of our new lives, learning and laughter, acceptance and recovery.”
Although she was thankful that she and her twins were okay, the mother admitted that she soon began to accept her body.
She admitted: “Like so many women, what I’ve been through with childbirth has changed my relationship with my body – and I say this knowing I’m the person who yelled at you all from the rooftops: ‘Love your skin’. pure.”
“We couldn’t believe my labor lasted only three and a half hours and I was so incredibly grateful to this team of qualified, intelligent and trained professionals around me who were there for me when I had Isaac and now, with me back for the twins,” she gushed
“But for me, the births of all three of my children threw a lot of that out the window.”
Graham said she was a “wreck” after recovering from the incident and “didn’t feel like herself physically or emotionally.”
She added that she had planned to return to work eight weeks after giving birth, but soon realized that would not be the case.
“I couldn’t walk properly for a long time, let alone exercise. I would shake, I didn’t feel like myself physically or emotionally,” she wrote.
“I had planned to go back to work after eight weeks but I was a wreck and when I looked at myself in the mirror I still felt like I was pregnant.
“I work in an industry that expects me to return to work in a body that’s ‘snapped back’ – a pressure no woman in any industry feels.
“I’ve always fought against unfair and unrealistic standards and yet, if I’m completely honest, I was here expecting to hit back. And fast.’
New parents: She, Justin and Isaac moved into her mother’s home in Nebraska after the pandemic, but she said it felt “really isolating and challenging” raising “a baby who doesn’t know anything” (pictured in 2019)
The TV host also recalled being “immersed in the postpartum experience” after the birth of her first son in 2020, admitting that while he was her “world,” the “physical and emotional aspects” of being a new mom ‘messy’ and ‘lots of hard work.’
She, Justin and Isaac moved into her mother’s home in Nebraska after the pandemic, but she said it feels “really isolating and challenging” raising “a baby who doesn’t know anything.”
She also struggled with her body image, adding, “I was also obsessed with those 20 pounds that just wouldn’t come off and it felt like my body wasn’t my own.
“I tried to brush it off and I was like, ‘Girl, you’re still fine, who cares.’ I got a few stretch marks and I had some really good howling sessions about the stretch marks.
“But looking back, if I’d known what I’d be going through — oh, it’s ridiculous what I’ve been stressing about.”