{"id":312468,"date":"2024-05-16T17:08:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=312468"},"modified":"2024-05-16T17:07:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:07:47","slug":"maya-henry-fiancee-payne-pressured-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/maya-henry-fiancee-payne-pressured-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Henry, former fianc\u00e9e of Liam Payne, says she was once pressured into abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former model and author Maya Henry has revealed<\/a> in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE that an unnamed ex pressured her into having an abortion. Some media outlets are presuming that the ex in question is her ex-fianc\u00e9e Liam Payne, a former member of One Direction, but that is unclear. She also discussed how she had a harrowing experience taking the abortion pill.<\/p>\n

“Inspired by true events”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Her new novel, “Looking Forward,” tells the story of a young aspiring model named Mallory and her romance with pop star Oliver. It seems to parallel her own relationship with Payne.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the book is fiction,\u201d Henry told PEOPLE, but it’s “definitely inspired by true events… [The main character] Mallory is very similar to me, and that\u2019s why it was very easy for me to write her character and put the emotion in there. I\u2019m just grateful that I have this opportunity and platform to really help be a voice for women.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the book, Oliver becomes abusive and at one point pressures Mallory into an abortion by giving her an ultimatum: the baby or him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI drew inspiration [from my real life], and I wanted to include a scene like that in the book because while not everyone dates a pop star, I feel like everyone dates someone like Oliver,\u201d she said of a moment when Oliver shatters a light fixture in anger. \u201cI feel like it was just important for women to be seen in that way, and can relate and not feel like they\u2019re alone in whatever they\u2019re going through.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I did have to go to the hospital alone…”<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the book, Mallory goes through with the abortion but suffers severe complications and must go to the hospital for hemorrhaging. Henry said the abortion experience she wrote for Mallory is similar to her own experience with the abortion pill.<\/p>\n

She also noted that her feelings and experiences related to the abortion were downplayed… by men<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I went through in real life is very similar to what Mallory went through in the book. I definitely did have some complications, and I did have to go to the hospital alone,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was very lonely, having these men tell you, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s going to feel like a heavy period, it\u2019s not going to be that painful, it\u2019s going to be easy.\u2019 But I\u2019m like, you\u2019ve never even gone through anything like [this], so how would you know to tell me? That\u2019s why I wanted to include it in the book, because I\u2019ve seen so many people online talk about taking the abortion pill and it was the most painful thing for them. It\u2019s just mind-boggling to me that you could tell a woman how they\u2019re going to feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet, Planned Parenthood itself describes a chemical abortion in the exact same way<\/a>. “It’s kind of like having a really heavy, crampy period, and the process is very similar to having an early miscarriage,” their site says<\/a>.<\/p>\n