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Jesy Nelson and Zion Foster Reportedly End Engagement as They Focus on Co-Parenting

Nelson is pressing to add SMA to UK newborn screening, meeting the health secretary on air after revealing her twins’ diagnosis.

Overview

  • Multiple outlets, citing an unnamed source in The Sun, report the couple have separated, with both said to remain friends and committed to co-parenting their daughters; representatives have not publicly confirmed the split.
  • The twins, Ocean and Story, have been diagnosed with SMA Type 1; Story requires nighttime ventilation and both receive intensive care at home.
  • Nelson says the girls received a one‑off NHS‑approved gene therapy infusion at Great Ormond Street Hospital that can prevent further muscle loss but cannot restore function already lost.
  • Appearing on ITV’s This Morning on January 20, Nelson discussed her screening campaign with Health Secretary Wes Streeting and urged faster action to include SMA in the heel‑prick test.
  • Foster shared an emotional poem calling for universal SMA testing at birth and later posted a video praising Story’s efforts, while Scotland plans to start SMA screening in spring and the UK screening body is reassessing the case.