Loose Women hosting shake-up as brand new star joins ITV panel - and reveals disgusting insult she received just minutes into show
The Paralympian, 55, who was born with spina bifida, joined Jane Moore, 62, Coleen Nolan, 60, and Katie Piper, 41, to chat about this week's newsworthy topics.
Right at the start of the episode the Loose ladies discussed how you prepare kids for a trauma, after Freddie Flintoff's wife Rachael revealed how she instructed their children to react when confronted with his injuries from his car crash in 2022.
During the chat, Tanni touched upon a moment that happened when she was just five years old that left the panel and studio in shock.
Tanni said: 'I know when I was young, I was five when I complete stranger stopped me in the street and asked me why my parents hadn't terminated the pregnancy.
'You don't really understand, my mum sat down with me and she talked through what that was and what it meant.
'She was really honest with me.
'When I was born, they were told if I had been born a couple of years earlier, I'd have been taken away, not fed and allowed to die.
'Again, she was talking about that. She was quite open with me.
'She said that if she'd known she was going to have a baby born with spina bifida, she might have considered termination.'
Jane chimed in: 'Because she didn't know you at that point.'
She continued: 'People get upset but she never said having had you, I would wish to terminate it.
'That open conversation, kids can be really accepting. They see what's in front of them.
'They learn to adapt. It's only later...'
Jane said: 'Just don't lie to them!'
Tanni is best known for her wheelchair racing career, being a politician and being on the TV.
She started her wheelchair racing career at the age of 13 and has gone on to win multiple medals.
Some include gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games for 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m.
She also won gold at the Sydney Games in 2000 for the same events.
Tanni also bagged gold at the 1998 World Championships.
Elsewhere in the episode Beyoncé's mother Tina Knowles fought back the tears as she recounted her 'devastating' breast cancer battle and divorce.
Tina, who is mum to the If I Were A Boy singer, 43, and Solange Knowles, 38, was recently diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer after doctors discovered two tumors during a mammogram appointment.
She appeared on the ITV chat show to talk to Charlene White, 44, and Jane Moore, 62, about her new book Matriarch, which was released earlier this week. Her recent diagnosis was touched upon after Charlene was keen to find out if she had a group of close pals that she could turn to in a time of need.
Tina said: 'Friendship with women is of the utmost importance to me, it's one of my biggest priorities to stay connected because when I went through that, I depended on my daughters.
'I didn't tell everybody in my friends group. I didn't have to tell them what was going on.
'I just went to Houston, gathered my girlfriends, we went to church, we went to lunch, we went parting at the club, dancing.'
As her emotions got the better of her and her eyes started to tell up, she continued: 'I just told them I don't want to talk about what's going on, but I need you right now.
'They were all right there with me. They've been a big part of my life, my whole life.'
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