Jesy Nelson issues plea for help after car containing daughters’ medical equipment was stolen

Jesy Nelson has begged the public for help after her car containing hospital equipment used to treat her twin babies was stolen.

The Little Mix star, 34, welcomed daughters Ocean Jade and Story Monroe with now ex-fiancé Zion Foster in May last year.

After being born prematurely, the girls were kept in hospital for three months, with Jesy going on to reveal earlier this year that they’ve both since been diagnosed with the rare genetic condition known as SMA, which causes progressive muscle wasting.

In a tearful video shared on social media, Jesy shared that medical professionals said that her daughters would have died without urgent medical care, but that they are still unlikely to survive beyond a few years.

Since then, she’s continued to share updates on their condition but has now revealed how their treatment has been thrown yet another curveball.

Posting on Instagram on Sunday morning, Jesy explained: ‘My car got stolen off my driveway in the early hours of this morning, if anyone sees a black Defender reg plate JJ73SSY.

‘Please, if any of you have seen or know of any information can you DM me or contact the police.

‘I have so much of my girls’ hospital equipment in that car that’s really needed.’

She went on to share another post that specified the car was stolen from Brentwood in Essex.

Jesy rose to fame as part of the girl group Little Mix, who were formed on The X Factor in 2011. However, she later left the band in 2020 due to ‘medical reasons’, later saying she’d begun suffering panic attacks when performing and wasn’t enjoying it anymore.

Just weeks after publicly revealing her twins’ devastating health diagnosis, it was revealed that she’d also split from her partner – whom she’d begun dating in 2022.

At the time, in January, a source said: ‘She and Zion remain friends and are fully focused on their daughters.

‘They are fully united in co-parenting. Their priority continues to be the well-being of their daughters.’

After speaking out about her daughters’ health condition, Jesy also admitted the past few months had been ‘the most heartbreaking time of my life’.

Not long after she gave a sit-down interview, in which she detailed how her mother actually noticed something was wrong with the girls, adding they were left facing a ‘life or death’ situation.

In an interview on Sky News’ The UK Tonight programme, the former girl band star explained how there were missed chances to pick up on symptoms during early check-ups of her daughters.

‘The fact that there were healthcare visitors around my house a lot and we took them to the GP and not one of them saw any of the signs,’ she shared.

‘Thank God for my mum, because I dread to think what position I’d be in now if my mum hadn’t have said anything to me.

‘It’s one of them things that I constantly go over, and I have to sometimes stop myself from doing it because I will drive myself insane.’

The singer then spoke about her heartbreak over concerns her daughters may not live a ‘fulfilled life’.

‘I don’t want people to think that if you’ve got disability that that defines you because it definitely doesn’t,’ she said.

‘But I’ll openly say if I could have it the other way, I definitely would. Why wouldn’t I want my children to walk and live a fulfilled life?

A few weeks earlier she’d also broken down in tears on This Morning explaining how she would ‘never be able to get over it or accept’ her daughters’ condition.

‘When you know that there is something that could be done about it and it’s life changing, that’s something I cannot accept,’ she shared.

‘I’m still struggling. I just want to be their mum, I don’t want to be a nurse.’

In recent months she’d been campaigning for the UK to include SMA screening in the routine newborn heel prick test, which screens for serious health conditions.

A petition she began then secured more than 100,000 signatures, which means it will be considered for a debate in the House of Commons.

Last month Scotland confirmed it would become the first UK nation to screen babies for SMA, however Jesy admitted it felt like a ‘bittersweet moment’.

‘I will never be able to understand why we still do not test for it here in England,’ she explained.

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