Radio host Rebecca Judd opens up about numb C-section scar

RADIO host Rebecca Judd says she’s still recovering from her caesarean 18 months on, and says the skin on her stomach once got caught in a zipper.

Rebecca Judd says her C-section scar lost feeling.

RADIO host and mother-of-four Rebecca Judd says she still suffers from numbness on her stomach 18 months following the birth of her twin boys, Tom and Darcy.

Speaking on her radio show, The 3pm Pickup on KIIS, the former model told co-host Katie ‘Monty’ Dimond that her caesarean scar is still so numb, she once got the skin caught in a zipper while getting dressed and didn’t even know.

“I’ve worn this dress and it’s got the zip from the bottom hem all the way up to the neck [at the front],” she explained. “So I’d zipped it up all good, and I’m moving around and putting my shoes on, and I can feel this weird tugging like [the dress] wasn’t sitting right.

“When I looked down, there was a little patch of blood. I’ve zipped up the skin around my caesar scar into the zip and not even realised.”

Bec Judd said the scar tissue from her caesarean once got caught in her zipper, and she didn't even know because her stomach is still numb.

Judd, who gave birth to her boys in September 2016, said she had to slowly unzip the dress over her skin.

“It was just a tiny bit, but I’ve not even realised because I’m numb there — completely numb,” she said.

“I had to unzip it, and as I was taking the zip down and getting close to the skin I was like ‘Ahh’, but then I rolled over the skin and didn’t feel it.”

Bec Judd gave birth to her twin boys via C-section in September 2016.

Judd said it made her realise how careful she needs to be of the wound in future, which is still healing.

“I could be leaning on a hot tong and not even know,” she said. “Singe off everything and not even know.

“I do feel like it was a lot number, and now it’s only a little bit numb.”

According to the Mayo clinic in the US, recovery time for C-sections varies from woman to woman, and that numbness is more common than not.

The reason for the loss of sensation is the transection, or the cross-section cut, of small sensory nerves at the level of the skin. According to the clinic, muscle function is not affected as these are not sensory nerves, and the feeling usually comes back within six to 12 months.

Bec Judd said she still has numbness at the site of her C-section.

Last week, the mother-of-four said how curling her eyelashes once left her looking like a “plucked chicken”.

During a modelling job when she was just 19, Judd said a simple elbow slip in front of a mirror resulted in a horror accident that left her in tears — and without her own lashes.

“This one time I was modelling in Hong Kong, and I was curling my normal lashes,” she explained.

“I was leaning on my elbow as I was curling them and my elbow slipped as I pushed down on the clamp.

“All of my lashes came out just before the job. I screamed ... I called my mum and I cried.

“I looked like a plucked chicken,” she said.

“There was like random little ones and I was clinging on to them for dear life. But it took a good two or three months for them to grow back.”

The 3pm Pick Up airs weekdays from 3 — 4PM on the national KIIS Network.