LOVE Island star Anna Vakili has opened up about her secret abortion.
The 31-year-old revealed her accidental pregnancy for the first time as she told how her parents banned her from sex education at school.
Anna, who was 21 at the time, said she “learnt from her mistake” after having unprotected sex.
Admitting she found it difficult to talk about, Anna told The Celeb Report: “I feel really scared to open up about this, but I think it’s important to do it because I learnt from my own mistake, and if other people can learn from my mistake then it’s the best thing to come from this.
“When I was younger – about 21, I was having unprotected sex – I don’t know what I was thinking. I wasn’t thinking, and I ended up pregnant.
“Obviously I was really young and I wasn’t ready, and I had an abortion.
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“At that age you don’t think what can happen and I have deep regrets that I did end up pregnant.
“I didn’t wish to be pregnant and have to get an abortion – I don’t like that. So if you can avoid that – do.”
Anna opened about being let “traumatised” when she was pulled out of sex education class at school because her parents didn’t sign a consent form.
It meant she missed out on being taught at a young age about the importance of using protection.
“Ever since then I’ve practiced safe sex and I’m now on the coil,”
“In school the teachers sent a letter home for our parents to sign to say if it was ok for us to sit in sex education, and my parents didn’t sign it and it was the most embarrassing thing ever because the teacher took me out of the class when they did sex education.
“I was the only person, apart from one other Asian or Middle Eastern person. I’ll never forget that – it was so traumatising.”
