Katie Hopkins Reveals Doctors Offered To Abort Her Autistic Daughter

Katie Hopkins today revealed that she was offered an abortion during her eighth month of pregnancy – because of doubts surrounding her daughter’s future quality of life.

The former Celebrity Big Brother contestant also admitted that she couldn’t go through with the procedure because she didn’t have ‘the courage’ to go through with it.

Doctors told Katie that something was seriously wrong with her daughter. Copyright: [Getty]

Speaking to The Sun ahead of the launch of her new show 'If Katie Hopkins Ruled The World’, the controversial columnist said that her daughter was now so severely autistic, she’d probably have to live at home for the rest of her life.

Initially, doctors where unsure what was wrong with her unborn daughter – but revealed that her kidneys were fifteen times their normal size.

She told the paper: “They didn’t know exactly what was wrong at the time other than her kidneys were 15 times normal size. I still have the letter at home that says she might not live one day or she might not live at all.”

“I decided to carry on because having a termination then means you have to give birth. I wasn’t brave enough. I just didn’t have the courage to have one.”

Katie’s daughter is missing the HFNIB gene – which means she struggles with severe autism, and according to her mother will not lead a 'normal’ life.

The former Apprentice star said she wasn’t ‘brave’ enough to terminate her pregnancy so late. Copyright: [Twitter]

Despite having problems with speech early on in her life as well as not being able to understand other people’s emotions, the former Apprentice star – who was accused of trolling an autistic child earlier this year – said that her daughter has an impeccable memory, and that she finds her condition 'interesting’.

“I think she’ll live with us forever, that’s what she says. That’s fine. That’s cute. This is why I say I’m really tolerant.”

“People assumed I had these perfect children because I was judging everyone else’s children - but of course that wasn’t the case, I think society will judge my daughter. My job is to help equip her with the things that can help her cope with life.”

"That’s why it [autism] is sort of a gift. It teaches you a different language.”