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People: 27 Celebrities Who Have Opened Up About Having Miscarriages
These stars have shared their experiences in an effort to end the stigma over pregnancy loss
Paula Faris
During a guest appearance on The View, the television journalist opened up about why she used her third miscarriage as a teachable moment for her 12-year-old daughter.
“I’m 44. I’ve always wanted four kids — maybe because I am the youngest of four. But that was my third miscarriage,” Faris began.
After having “three healthy pregnancies,” Faris “knew what was going on” this time around with the loss, which happened over Fourth of July weekend in 2019, while the family was on vacation in Maryland.
“I brought my daughter into the restroom with me,” she recounted. “I showed her what was going on and I said, ‘I just want to let you know, Mommy is … the baby is probably no longer viable. Mommy doesn’t feel any guilt. This is normal, it happens to so many women, it’s happened to me a couple of other times. When you get pregnant, it might happen to you, honey. And I want you to know there’s nothing you did wrong.’ “
“It’s important to grieve, but it’s also important to know that this happens to so many of us,” she continued. “She’s 12. She’s the perfect child, by the way,” she said, joking, “And then I have my boys, who are savages. God has a sense of humor.”
Hope Solo
The former U.S Women’s National Soccer Team goalkeeper detailed her story in the July 2019 issue of Elle. She explained that while running for president of the United States Soccer Federation (USFF), she miscarried and later learned that she was pregnant with twins.
“The doctor said I was hours from dying,” she told Elle. “They ended up having to remove my fallopian tube.”
Since that experience, Solo has not given up on having children and has begun the process of in vitro fertilization.
Dylan Dreyer
During April 2019’s National Infertility Awareness Week, Today‘s Dreyer shared that she had suffered a miscarriage while pregnant with her and husband Brian Fichera’s second child.
” ‘I think I lost the baby,’ ” Dreyer tearfully recalled of what she told her husband after she noticed “massive bleeding” five weeks after getting a positive pregnancy test, to which Fichera replied, ” ‘You didn’t lose the baby. It’s your body doing what it needs to do. You didn’t do anything wrong.’ ”
Her loss was confirmed after a visit to the doctor, which made things extra hard returning to work, where she had to mask what was going on.
“I’m devastated, and I have to go to work on the Today show and be happy and smiling and pretend like nothing’s wrong,” she said, adding that she did eventually tell her co-workers what had happened.
After revealing that she had her son Calvin after only trying to conceive one or two times, Dreyer admitted that the difficulties involving her second attempt at having another child, in addition to learning she had a low egg count, surprised her — she “didn’t know secondary infertility was a thing.”
The Today weather correspondent went on to say that she was starting the IVF process.
“God has a plan,” Dreyer said. “And I pray every night, ‘Just let me stay out of your way — you do what is best for us, and we’ll figure that out.’ ”
However, days before starting IVF, her doctor called to tell her she was pregnant again — her baby boy is due in January.
https://people.com/parents/celebrities-who-had-miscarriages/
This is a really poignant article I happened upon. Instead of doing the slideshow, you can click on the option to "view all." It takes a little while to load.
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