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Reports Say Jesy Nelson and Zion Foster Have Split, Co-Parenting to Continue

Sources describe a cooperative co-parenting approach during their twins' treatment for spinal muscular atrophy.

Overview

  • Multiple outlets on Jan. 18–19 report the engagement has ended, citing unnamed sources with no official confirmation from representatives.
  • Reports say the pair remain friends and are "fully united" in raising their eight-month-old daughters, Ocean and Story.
  • The twins have Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 and recently received a one-off gene therapy infusion at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
  • Doctors have warned of likely severe motor limitations; Jesy has said one twin uses a night-time breathing machine and both have feeding tubes.
  • Nelson is campaigning to add SMA to the UK newborn blood spot screening, noting Scotland plans to introduce screening and a national review is under way.