MAFS: Martha Kalifatidis cries ‘I can’t do this’ as she suffers pregnancy sickness

Martha Kalifatidis‘ fiancé Michael Brunelli has shared more details about her debilitating pregnancy sickness.

In a heartbreaking Instagram post on Tuesday, the 31-year-old personal trainer offered a glimpse of Martha’s struggles at the peak of her illness.

The influencer, 34, has been suffering from a severe case of hyperemesis gravidarum, which left her so sick she could not leave her bed for months.

In one clip, the MAFS couple are seen talking to each other in a room about Martha’s excruciating pain as she starts to doubt herself.

‘I don’t know, Michael, if I’m going to survive,’ she says, to which her husband-to-be replies: ‘You will.’

‘I don’t know. I don’t know if I wanna do it. I don’t know if I can,’ Martha continues.

Michael continues to comfort her before she cries, ‘I can’t, babe. I cannot do this for another f**king… I can’t do this for another 10 days let alone another f**king three months!’

Michael then pleads with his fiancée to stay positive and to get through the night before they visit a doctor the next day.

‘I don’t know how you’re feeling,’ he says. ‘But we’re gonna get through it.’

In his caption, Michael expressed his heartache and admitted he’d been feeling ‘completely helpless’ during Martha’s sickness.

‘The past few months have been tough,’ he began.

‘I watched Martha go from enjoying a holiday, to nervously celebrating a new stage in our life, to moaning in pain for hours and days on end.⁣’

He said Martha had spent the ‘best part of the last 10 weeks in bed 24 hours a day, dehydrated, nauseous, vomiting, restless, tired, anxious, fatigued and unable to properly sleep or eat’.

And despite visiting the hospital on multiple occasions, receiving medical advice and being prescribed different medications, she has still be suffering with the sickness.

‘But she is a f**king warrior! And so is every other woman that is diagnosed with HG [hyperemesis gravidarum] or any pregnancy-related condition,’ Michael added.

‘I can’t begin to imagine what it’s felt like for her, and while I’ve tried to help as much as I can, at times I’ve just felt completely helpless.⁣

‘I think about all the times she grabbed my hand and said, “Babe, please help,” knowing full well I couldn’t do anything more for her, and it absolutely rips my heart out.’

The Tu Fit founder went on to explain the reason for his post was to raise awareness and ‘show what pregnancy can look and feel like with hyperemesis gravidarum’, noting that it ‘may be triggering for some’.

‘To show that you don’t always have to love your pregnancy to love your baby,’ he concluded his caption.

Other footage from his post showed Martha laying in a hospital bed, as well as Michael documenting times he would try to find medication for her while overseas.

Martha and Michael announced on Monday they were expecting their first child together and explained the reason for Martha’s absence from social media was because she was so sick with hyperemesis gravidarum, which causes persistent and excessive nausea and vomiting in pregnant women.

The reality star disappeared offline for several weeks, leading to concerns for her well-being.

The couple explained they had to wait until Martha was feeling better and had reached a safe point in her pregnancy before sharing their news.

‘We wanted to explain our situation and make a little bit of an announcement. Martha is pregnant,’ Michael said in the video.

‘It hasn’t been this exciting, wonderful time for us. I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining,’ Martha added.

‘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.

‘We have been in and out of the emergency room and hospital’.

Martha then said she was feeling better thanks to a doctor she visited in Melbourne.

‘She has given me some medication which has literally been life-changing. It is helping me feel human again,’ she said.

Michael then added: ‘It was too early to share as well. We had to disappear offline and give a few excuses.’

Speaking on the Kyle & Jackie O Show on Tuesday, the influencer explained she’d started growing hair on her body where it wasn’t there before as a result of losing so much weight.

‘I think due to like losing so much weight so drastically, and just being so malnourished, I’ve literally grown this layer of fur over all of my body. It’s disgusting,’ she told hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson.

‘It’s so weird because, like, I’ve obviously had my whole body lasered and I hadn’t had any hair on my body for years and all of a sudden I’m like a marsupial.’

Michael also admitted on air that it had been ‘tough’ watch Martha ‘in pain for so many months’.

The couple announced their engagement on their respective Instagram pages in December, with Martha proudly showing off her diamond engagement ring.

‘Mrs B,’ Martha and Michael captioned their posts, allowing the prized bling to take centre stage.

Their relationship has gone from strength to strength after they found love on Married At First Sight in 2019.

In a recent unfiltered interview with Stellar, they admitted they weren’t each other’s type when they first met at the altar.

During the interview, Michael also professed his love for his girlfriend, adding: ‘She’s the person I go to whenever there’s a problem. I can trust her opinion with every decision I make. Things couldn’t be better.’

They are now influencers and film, edit and produce each other’s content.

The couple earn their full-time income via sponsored fashion and makeup posts, fitness videos, cooking tutorials and other branded content, mostly all created from the comfort of their Sydney home.

Martha told Daily Mail Australia last year that ‘never in her wildest dreams’ did she believe that creating sponsored posts at home would become her full-time job, and expressed her surprise at how financially viable it is.

‘It is surprising. I worked as a makeup artist for so long and I knew that big brands turnover so much. And the number one thing that they all invest in is marketing,’ she said.

Although Martha did not reveal the exact figure she charges for branded content, it’s estimated she makes anything up to $3,000 for a single sponsored selfie.