I’m A Celebrity’s Oti Mabuse particulars the vile abuse she obtained from ‘mum-shaming trolls’ after she returned to Dancing On Ice following the beginning of her child daughter

I’m A Celebrity‘s Oti Mabuse opened up about the vile trolling she received after appearing on Dancing On Ice following the birth of her baby on Saturday night’s show. 

The professional dancer, 34, revealed to her fellow camp mates that she felt she had been ‘mum-shamed’ after she returned to work eight weeks after welcoming her daughter. 

Discussing starting a family with Coleen Rooney and her other campmates, Oti said she had found the decision to go back to work really difficult but didn’t regret it. 

She added, however, that she will soon have to put her career on the back burner because she wants to be there for her little one.    

Sat around the campfire, Oti and Coleen discussed starting their families.

Oti explained: ‘Because I’m a dancer, it was really difficult to say when I would start having a family because my body is my job and also you have to be financially ready.’

Speaking of her work, she said: ‘Eventually I’ll have to give all of this up and just dedicate my life to them because I want to be there, I want to do the school run.’

Coleen said of motherhood: ‘You can still be a strong individual, dedicating your life to that.’

Oti agreed: ‘I think there’s this preconceived notion that when you’re a housewife you’ve got no ambition.’

As Coleen admitted: ‘I come across a lot of women who find it easy to come to work and find it hard being a mum.’

This then prompted Oti to open up about her own experience, as she shared: ‘When I had my daughter, I went back to work, I did Dancing on Ice and she was 8 weeks and the amount of messages and trolling from women who were like ‘stay home with your baby’ ‘why are you out?’ and I was just like, it’s my choice.’

Oti said in the Bush Telegraph of the trolling she experienced: ‘I find it very difficult to not let those comments get to me, because I’m human.’

Coleen reassured her: ‘On the outside world you can’t win, everyone has got an opinion. I always say don’t take it to heart because every individual is different.’

In November, before the dancer headed Down Under, she revealed the ‘traumatic’ birth of her daughter, that left her battling sepsis and diabetes, as she appeared on Loose Women.

The former Strictly Come Dancing professional joined panellists Judi Love, Charlene White, Coleen Nolan, and Brenda Edwards to discuss the health woes she faced after welcoming her first child prematurely last year.

Oti and her husband Marius Lepure, 41, became parents in November 2023 after their newborn was born prematurely with an infection and spent six weeks in intensive care.

Oti also found out she was pre-diabetic and was diagnosed with gestational diabetes at 28 weeks, before also experiencing complications after the birth when she contracted sepsis.

Gestational diabetes is when you have high blood sugar during pregnancy, whereas pre-diabetes is when blood sugar levels above the normal range, but not high enough to be diagnosed.

Oti added: ‘When I fell pregnant I got gestational diabetes and we have diabetes in the family but I didn’t really know what happens after you give birth.

‘Does it go away? Do you have to keep working? Years ago I would see pictures of models who would have a baby and within three weeks they’re back and walking the runway.

‘I’m in the bathroom, I’m crying, I probably haven’t washed in like three days. How am I going to snap back?’

‘It’s so difficult and my sister and I talk about this all the time. It’s really about being healthy.’

She revealed: ‘My reason for getting back into fitness was that I found out I was pre-diabetic actually.’

Shocked, Charlene quipped: ‘Really?’ to which Oti responded: ‘Yeah I am still pre-diabetic and it’s about trying to get back to a point where I feel strong, I can handle my food, my sugar levels are right.’

Discussing her daughter’s birth, which came eight weeks early, the TV personality recalled walking to the shops with her husband when her waters broke out of nowhere.

‘I was like “something is happening” and he thought I was joking,’ she told the panel, ‘he thought I was pranking him.’

Oti gave birth naturally and said she was ‘singing Chicago the whole time,’ with the problems arising afterwards.

She explained: ‘Once I gave birth to her it became more traumatic, I had sepsis and I didn’t know. I had all these things, I had the diabetes, I had pelvic pain so turning and getting up and walking was very painful.

‘Then I found out that I had sepsis. It was one thing over the other. We spent 10 minutes together and she was taken away with my husband and the doctors.

‘She was in the incubator and that was the first time we actually saw her. She was covered up and she had all these machines and wires and everything covering her face….

‘This premature world only comes to light when you’re going through it…. It was a really, really scary time.’

Oti has always been candid about her birthing struggles and last month admitted she feels ‘very lucky’ that her baby daughter survived.