Myleene Klass felt "outraged" by NHS

Myleene Klass has revealed that she felt "outraged" over how she was treated by the NHS after giving birth to her first child.

The TV personality and her partner Graham Quinn welcomed the arrival of baby girl Ava at the private Lindo wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London in August last year. She then used a false name, Angela Quinn, because she "wanted to be treated like everyone else".

"When I got home we were back into the normal NHS system. But for six days after Ava was born no one came to see us, not one midwife," Myleene told The Sun. "She was three weeks premature and had jaundice and an eye infection and we rang for a midwife every day.

"I didn't want to sound like a panicking first-time mum, but even Gray was ringing - we just got lost in the system. A woman would ring back and say 'We're too busy, someone will come tomorrow', and this kept on happening."

She continued: "I felt so low, like I'd been abandoned. They're supposed to check on mum and baby. I felt outraged. I'm not knocking the NHS, my mum was a nurse. I know they get just as frustrated.

"But what made me sad was that as soon as the Lindo called up on behalf of Myleene Klass I had two midwives on my doorstep immediately. What about all the other Angela Quinns out there?"

Klass recently posed without make-up for a special Heat magazine photoshoot.