Jesy Nelson is celebrating after her twin daughters successfully had their feeding tubes removed from their faces.

The former Little Mix star took to her Instagram page to tell fans she was "terrified" about 14-month-old Ocean and Story having the procedure to remove their Nasogastric (NG) tubes.

The tubes are often used in the case of muscle weakness, if the subject finds swallowing difficult or unsafe, and particularly in the case of the genetic condition Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 - which Jesy's twin daughters both have.

Before the operation, she wrote on Instagram: "Today is the last day of my baby girls having [their] NG tubes on their faces.

"I've honestly forgotten what it feels like to cuddle them and not worry about pulling their tube out [their] nose or plasters [off] their face."

Jesy added that she couldn't wait to see her daughters' "little dimples", which have been hidden by the plasters holding the tubes in place for months.

She added: "It really is the littlest things we take for granted as parents."

Jesy later returned to Instagram to reveal that the procedure had gone well, sharing a video of Ocean and Story both sleeping soundly - with the plasters and tubes missing from their faces.

She called the pair the "bravest little girls I've ever known", and added that it "feels like a dream" seeing their faces without the tubes in place.

Story and Ocean, whose dad is Jesy's ex-fiancé Zion Foster, were diagnosed with the genetic disorder in January 2026 - with the weeks before and after the diagnosis documented in new Amazon Prime series Jesy Nelson: Life Changing.

Jesy previously headed to Britain's Houses of Parliament in London to witness a debate over SMA testing after she managed to gain more than 150,000 signatures on a petition to trigger a parliamentary debate on the subject.

The pop star has called for all babies to be given a simple test which could pick up the condition at an early stage, and had reason to celebrate when it was confirmed the NHS screening of newborns for SMA would be rolled out nationwide by 2027.

In a tearful post on her social media after the news was confirmed, Jesy called it a "day of hope".