Chloe Fisher went for a routine scan, unaware she was carrying twins. Then the room fell silent.

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For years, Chloe Fisher has been known as the woman living what looks like a sun-soaked fairytale.

She's the glamorous wife of Grammy-nominated DJ Paul Fisher.

The entrepreneur hopping between the Gold Coast, LA and Ibiza.

The woman whose life — from backstage parties to beach days — seemed to unfold in perfect, glossy snapshots on Instagram.

But off-camera, Chloe was fighting a very different battle.

First listen to No Filter: She Lost Five Babies. Now Chloe Fisher Is a Mum and Pregnant Again.

Behind the big shows, the travel and the bright public love story was a private battle that consumed four years, five miscarriages, eight rounds of IVF, and more grief than she ever imagined she'd survive.

Today, Chloe is the mother of baby daughter Bobbi and pregnant again.

She told Mamamia's No Filter podcast, the happiness she now holds was built on heartbreak, fear, resilience and a decision she made early in her fertility journey: to talk about it — even before she knew if her story would end with the family she always dreamed of.

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'I didn't think it was going to happen.'

Chloe always knew she wanted to be a mum, and had written in a time capsule that she thought she would be one of the first of her friends to have children.

"It was a no-brainer," Chloe told No Filter host Kate Langbroek.

"It was something that every single one of my friends, they were like, 'Yeah, Chloe.' Like, I'm not career driven, but I always knew I just wanted to be a mother."

Chloe with her husband Paul and baby Bobbi. Image: Supplied.

She and Paul fell pregnant 48 hours after their wedding in Bali. Days later, Chloe's grandmother, died suddenly in an ambulance.

Soon after, Chloe miscarried for the first time.

"I was like, 'that's so weird. I'm so young. Why am I having a miscarriage'?" she recalled.

More miscarriages followed. Then IVF. Then procedures, surgeries, answers that never arrived, and the quiet torture of hope rising and collapsing again and again.

"There were times I thought, 'It's not going to happen,'" she said.

"I had a deep-down belief that it would, but never in a million years did I expect the road that I travelled."

'As the room goes a little bit silent, you know.'

Perhaps the most devastating moment in the interview comes when Chloe recounts the day she learned she had lost twins.

She'd walked into the scan room with Paul by her side, unaware she was carrying two babies, let alone there were no heartbeats.

"I still remember that, that moment so vividly," she recalled.

"I actually didn't go in thinking that there was anything wrong. I actually didn't even know there were twins at that point.

"We were sitting in there. You just know, as soon as the room goes a little bit silent, you know."

The one comfort Chloe takes from that day, is that they had each other.

"It's like, so sad, because it still makes me really upset, but the two of them were, like, right next to each other, and it was like they were cuddling," she said.

"And I thought: life can't be this cruel."

She doesn't remember how she got back to the car.

"It's very foggy," she said. "I felt like that wasn't me.

"I can't believe that person went through that."

All of Chloe's lost pregnancies were baby boys. It's something she's still processing.

"Maybe I couldn't carry boys," she said. "Bobbi, I was convinced was a boy, and then she came out a girl. And I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I got my little girl.' That was a surreal moment."

Bobbi Maree Fisher was welcomed into the world June, 2024. Image: Supplied.

Paul's grief, and the moment he broke the silence.

The journey wasn't only Chloe's. Paul, whose social media presence is built around humour and chaos, was devastated too.

After the loss of the twins, he cancelled an international run of shows. And then he did something no one expected: he told his two million followers the truth.

"He actually was debating whether to talk about it on social media, and he was like, 'oh my god, do I do this?'" Chloe recalled.

"People are almost embarrassed to talk about it in a way. And we both just decided, 'nah, what's the worst that's going to happen here?'"

At Chloe's urging, Paul decided to talk. The response floored him.

"He'd never experienced outreach like it from other men," Chloe said.

"[They said] 'thank you for talking about this. I've been through this as well, and I haven't told anyone about it.'

"It's so amazing to see people in public, a public figure like yourself, talking about these real life, raw, vulnerable moments that not many people talk about. Usually you see the highlights, but you don't see the low lights."

The birth that nearly cost her life.

Even Bobbi's arrival, the miracle Chloe had fought years for, was marked by trauma.

30 minutes after birth, Chloe began to haemorrhage.

"The room went from calm to emergency in seconds," she said. "Paul was told, 'Give her a kiss, give the baby a kiss, we have to go.' I remember thinking: I'm going to die here."

She was rushed to surgery, lost litres of blood, and needed multiple transfusions.

"I expected childbirth to be crazy, but not like that," she said. "Recovering from it… it was almost as bad as the labour."

For weeks, she battled physical pain and a frightening emotional spiral she didn't recognise at first.

"There is something wrong, obviously, but I've got this beautiful, healthy baby who I'm trying to keep alive while keeping myself alive," Chloe said.

"It wasn't full blown depression. It definitely wasn't that.

"But I definitely had a period of maybe a couple of weeks where I 100 per cent had this thing called baby blues, I guess you could say, and it eventually lifted.'

How a friendship — and a baby named Minnie — helped keep her afloat.

Throughout the chaos of IVF, loss, and public scrutiny, one bond anchored Chloe: her friendship with Darling, Shine! co-host Ellidy Pullin, who lost her partner, snowboarder Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin, before falling pregnant with his daughter via post-mortem sperm retrieval.

Their grief stories were intertwined and became the foundation of their podcast.

"We were recording everything in real time," Chloe said. "I had a miscarriage, we'd get on the record an episode the next day and record that heaviness.

"It was Ellidy trying to support me. I'm trying to support her through grief. And it just became this. It became us."

Ellidy's daughter, Minnie, became a shining light in Chloe and Paul's life.

Chloe's friendship with Ellidy Pullin and her daughter Minnie helped anchor the family through grief. Image: Supplied.

"Minnie saved us in so many ways," Chloe said. "All I wanted after one miscarriage was Minnie, literally I didn't want to see anyone.

"She is still one of the biggest joys in our life."

Chloe believes the timing of everything — even her losses — made space for her to be there for Ellidy in a way she couldn't have if she had been caring for a newborn herself.

"If we had our baby then, there's no way we could have been there for Elle or Minnie the way we were," she said.

'Grief is not linear.'

What is most striking about Chloe Fisher is not the pain she has lived through, but the clarity with which she speaks about it.

"Grief is not linear and people grieve in different ways," she said. " It hits you at the weirdest times. And you could be having the best day of your life, and you will see something."

If she could go back to her past self, the Chloe kneeling on the sand, laying down two white roses for the twins she lost, she knows exactly what advice she'd give.

"Don't give up," she said. "Just keep putting one foot in front of the other, because it is going to work out in the end."

Chloe Fisher with her family. Image: Supplied.

Today, she finally has the family she fought for.

She finally sees the light she once doubted she'd ever reach. And she is still choosing to tell her story, because so many others are living their own versions silently.

Talking, she said, is what saved her.

And it's what might save someone else, too.

If Chloe's story resonates, her memoir Always You offers comfort, honesty and a companion for anyone navigating fertility struggles.

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