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MAFS star Martha Kalifatidis "devastated" when she found out the sex of her baby

"It took me a few days to come to terms with it."

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Married At First Sight star Martha Kalifatidis has admitted that she was "devastated" when she found out the sex of her baby.

Martha is expecting her first child with fiancé Michael Brunelli, who she met on the sixth season of MAFS Australia.

However, the reality star says she was "convinced" that she was having a baby girl, so she wasn't too pleased to learn that she was, in fact, having a boy.

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Speaking on KIIS FM's Will & Woody, Martha said: "I'll be so honest with you guys, at the beginning I was devastated. I was so upset, it took me a few days to come to terms with it.

"I was 100% sure I was having a girl, like I had only opened girl clothing tabs on my phone, I was so convinced," she continued.

"There was no chance in my mind it was going to be a boy, I had planned my whole life for this girl."

Martha announced her pregnancy on Instagram back in September, along with the news that she had been diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, a disorder that causes severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.

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"We are so excited, we are so happy, it was a complete surprise. But at five weeks I was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum," she explained.

"I literally didn't get out of bed for two months. I was so sick. I could not eat or drink anything. There were days I didn't even get up to pee. I lost ten kilos in five weeks."

Fortunately, Martha's situation improved once she started seeing a doctor in Melbourne, as she added: "She has given me some medication which has literally been life-changing. It is helping me feel human again."

Married at First Sight UK airs on E4 in the UK. Married at First Sight Australia airs on Nine Network in Australia and E4 in the UK.

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