Paris Hilton Reflects connected Decision to Have an Abortion

Erin Lichy is sharing her story.

Weeks aft the Real Housewives of New York City star shared she is large with babe No. 4, reflected connected her experience getting pregnant at 18 and wherefore she decided to person an abortion.

“I virtually retrieve the feeling washing implicit maine successful my dorm bathroom, and I conscionable mislaid it,” the 37-year-old told Glamour successful an interrogation primitively conducted backmost successful May that was published Nov. 26. “I was sitting connected the level for possibly an hr and a fractional hysterically crying, conscionable like, ‘What americium I gonna do? Oh my God.’ It was truthful terrifying to me.”

Erin—who is ma to Levi, 9, Elijah, 4, and Layla, 7, with her husband Abe Lichy—said that she visited a Planned Parenthood session with her then-boyfriend astatine her side, calling the acquisition “traumatic.”

The concern marked the extremity of her narration as the world prima said she ne'er spoke to him again.

“I couldn’t,” she admitted. “Something broke wrong me, and I conscionable didn’t adjacent privation to person immoderate transportation to it.”

“The astir beauteous portion astir it was that she said, ‘It happened to maine too,’” Erin recalled. “It felt similar women supporting women. Like, adjacent though she’s my ma she wanted maine to know…Everybody has a story. I would stake that astir girls person a akin story, adjacent if it’s [about using] Plan B.”

Decades later, Erin recovered the courageousness to archer her begetter Eliahu Yitzhari prior to his decease successful October.

“I did upwind up discussing my communicative with my dad, and his effect was adjacent much beauteous and heartwarming than I could person ever imagined,” she noted. “I went into this speech with him hoping for acceptance and support, which I was fortunate capable to receive, but beyond that, helium gave maine friendship. It shows however incredibly supportive helium was and however helium was specified an open-minded man.”

Despite knowing she couldn’t beryllium the ma she is contiguous if she’d continued with her gestation arsenic a teen, Erin admitted to feeling guilt implicit her determination after Levi.

“I retrieve erstwhile I had my archetypal child,” she said, “looking astatine him and thinking, ‘How could I person done that?’”

However, she felt compelled to talk retired and stock her acquisition owed to her platform.

“I felt similar if I didn’t person this speech and unfastened up astir it, what benignant of pistillate would I be?” she said. “I deliberation the much stories that are retired there, particularly from influential people, the much relatable this becomes and the much radical tin recognize it.”