A social media influencer has opened up about her ‘nightmare’ airplane trip with her baby when returning home after a vacation in The Maldives.

Billie Faiers, best known for her appearance on ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ reality show, shared the moment she was forced to carry her 5-month-old baby for 12 hours.

Talking about what happened on her podcast, she claimed she was denied an in-flight bassinet for her daughter Margo because the only available one was broken.

“I had a nightmare. We get on the plane and going out there we had the bassinet for Margot, which is what you get when you have a young baby,” she shared.

“Going out, it’s great because where the bassinets are you get the legroom as well, so you know with a baby you’ve got all the stuff and you’re always in and out of the baby bag.

“Anyway, we get on the flight and they’re like ‘really sorry the bassinet’s broke’. One bassinet on the whole flight.”

The reality star, who also shares two older children Arthur and Nelly with her husband Shepherd, went on: “So I had to hold Margot in my arms for 12 hours – Greg and mum helped as well. I just thought ‘please don’t do this to me’.

“She’s at the age now – she’s five months – she doesn’t want to be restricted in my arms for 12 hours, but we had no choice.”

Sam, Faier’s sister, also shared how she took a flight back to the UK with her son Edward.

“No bassinet at all and Edward is 11 months and he’s heavy. Paul and I had to hold him the whole flight because the bassinet seat was taken,” she shared.

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