Nelson is hoping she can use her platform to drive \u201creal change\u201d.<\/p>\n
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: \u201cI\u2019m really proud to be working alongside the Mirror and SMA UK on this campaign and launching this petition. This is something that means a lot to me personally, and I\u2019m passionate about using my platform to raise awareness, support families affected and help drive real change.<\/p>\n
\u201cPartnering with organisations who care so deeply about this makes it even more special to be part of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nelson also took to Instagram to reveal her petition was live.<\/p>\n
She wrote: \u201cAs you all know, I\u2019ve been working hard to campaign for SMA to be added to the newborn screening heel-prick test here in the UK.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so happy and proud to finally share that my petition is now LIVE.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve popped the link in my stories bio. Any support, shares or signatures would mean the world to me and to so many other families\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Nelson told how she no longer has \u201ctime\u201d to make music.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston on Heart FM\u2019s Breakfast show, Nelson \u2013 who recently split from her daughters\u2019 father Zion Foster \u2013 said: \u201cLook listen I\u2019d never say never say never to music, but for me, my girls are my main focus, I\u2019ll be honest with you, I\u2019ve not got time, I really don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are my whole heart and soul and my main focus, and I want to continue advocating for them and getting this heel-prick test changed and getting them strong, that\u2019s my main focus.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause that\u2019s going to determine their future. That\u2019s my main focus right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelson is hoping she can use her platform to drive \u201creal change\u201d. She told the Daily Mirror newspaper:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[158287,74,111280,22059,6794,27703,20467,4190,156,71,266,132926,130,111279,91,29657,111,54769,139,69,90,24637,128,7565,5034,31706,64393,41114,46849,764,131,14005,90807,1613,1533,102],"class_list":["post-283700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-158287","tag-after","tag-atrophy","tag-babies","tag-baby","tag-born","tag-britain","tag-demand","tag-entertainment","tag-from","tag-government","tag-jesy","tag-more","tag-muscular","tag-nelson","tag-nelsons","tag-new-zealand","tag-newborn","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-parliament","tag-petition","tag-receive","tag-response","tag-signed","tag-sma","tag-spinal","tag-tested","tag-tests","tag-than","tag-times","tag-triggers","tag-uk","tag-will","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}