The moment Obama catches pregnant woman as she faints behind him during healthcare speech and jokes, 'that's what happens when I talk too long'

Prospective Affordable Care Act beneficiary Karmel Allison became wobbly towards the end of Mr Obama's 25 minute speech at the White House today

Just in time, the President turned around and caught her before she fainted

'I got you. You're OK,' Mr Obama told her and made a joke that he had been speaking too long

Allison was invited to the event because she is a long-time diabetes sufferer who has struggled to find affordable healthcare until the ACA

She later tweeted: 'I'm ok world- just got a little lightheaded.Thanks, @BarackObama for catching me'

She told CNN dehydration may have caused the turn because she had tried not to drink before the speech so she wouldn't need to bathroom

Health scare: President Barack Obama reaches out to help Prospective ACA Beneficiary Karmel Allison, center, who began to faint during the president's speech about healthcare today

Shaky: Allison, in red, looks visibly woozy as she grips the hand of the woman next to her and the President dives to help her during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013

Diabetes: Allison, center, was invited to the event because she has suffered diabetes since age 9 and struggled to get affordable health cover

Unstable: Allison, left, becomes unsteady as Mr Obama discusses the health care reforms

Just in time: The President turns around and catches Allison just as she's about to faint, and the man standing behind her grabs her shouldersv

Help: Allison is then escorted away. She later tweeted that she was feeling OK now and thanked Mr Obama

'I got you. You're OK,' Mr Obama told her. The woman was escorted away for medical assistance as the crowd applauded Mr Obama's quick reaction.

President Barack Obama caught a pregnant woman who began to faint during his speech about healthcare reforms today and then joked: 'That's what happens when I talk too long.'

Mr Obama reached out to help prospective Affordable Care Act beneficiary Karmel Allison who was standing directly behind him as he discussed the glitches of the new healthcare website in the Rose Garden of the White House.

Around 25 minutes into the speech, Ms Allison became unsteady and started to lose consciousness but the President, and other attendees, turned around and grabbed her before she fainted.

Ms Allison was invited to the event at the White House because she has suffered Type 1 Diabetes since she was nine years old and has always struggled to find affordable healthcare.

She said she was lucky to have insurance already when she was diagnosed and stayed on the same plan, despite constantly rising costs, because she was scared another insurer would reject her due to her pre-existing condition.

She said she recently began researching her options on CoveredCA and was elated to find she could now qualify for low-cost insurance despite her diabetes. She said she finally feels equal to others, including her healthy husband, when it comes to accessing coverage.

A few hours after her turn, she told CNN she was 'feeling much better' and that she thought dehydration may have caused her to feel lightheaded during the event.

'I'm 20 weeks pregnant at this point and I hadn't had that much to drink that morning because I was worried about possibly needing to go to the bathroom during the speech,' she said in a phone interview. 'And as the sun hit me, I got a little lightheaded.'

Ms Allison said she was treated by the White House physician.

'Now I get to say that ACA got me care by the White House medical professional,' she joked.

Ms Allison, who represented the American Diabetes Association, said she was honored to attend the event.

'It was an honor to be there and I'm rather sorry I fainted in the middle of the speech, but I was really happy to be able to be on stage at that moment,' she told CNN.

According to a biography on website A Sweet Life, to which she contributes as science editor, Ms Allison was born in Southern California, and went to UC Berkeley graduating in 2006 with a B.A. in Linguistics.

She now lives with her husband in San Diego where she works in computational biology at the University of California. Michael is chief technology officer and co-founder at Nulu and founder and chief technology officer at Minute7.com. The couple also have a computer company, Arcaio Inc.

She writes in her biography that she 'is loving the sunshine (in San Deigo) ... and learning to use the active voice when talking about her diabetes.'

In her spare time, she says she enjoys 'people, Milan Kundera, rock climbing, and the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.' 

However, it didn't take long before skeptics started suggesting the health scare was a fake and Ms Allison was planted there by the Obama administration.