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Melissa Rivers suffered a pregnancy loss before giving birth to her first born.
In June 2020, 'Dawson's Creek' star James Van Der Beek announced that his wife Kimberly had suffered yet another miscarriage. The child would've been their sixth. This is actually the third time Kimberly has suffered a miscarriage.
As mentioned, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen opened up about the loss of what would've been their third child after Teigen was hospitalized for "excessive bleeding."
"We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we've never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn't enough," wrote Teigen on Instagram.
Actress Kate Beckinsale spoke about her own experience as a way to support Chrissy Teigen. "Years ago, I lost a baby at 20 weeks," she wrote on Instagram. "I had managed to keep my pregnancy quiet and I absolutely collapsed inside and no one would have known. There is grief, shame and shock so often that come with an experience like this, plus the heartbreak of your body continuing, after the loss, to act as if it had a child to nurture. Your milk comes in, with no one to feed."
Meghan Markle penned a heartbreaking account of her miscarriage in the New York Times in 2020. The Duchess of Sussex said she felt a sharp pain while holding her son Archie, then she dropped to the floor and hummed a lullaby to keep them both calm. "I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second," she wrote. Markle added, “Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few.”
The singer-songwriter shared that she tragically suffered a stillbirth following pregnancy complications that had begun almost two weeks earlier. Perri had also previously suffered a miscarriage, and says she's been open with her struggles to "help change the story [and] stigma around miscarriage, secrecy and shame."
Just a few weeks after revealing that she was pregnant, Whitney Port suffered a miscarriage. The reality star and fashion designer shared the news on her YouTube channel and Instagram shortly after the tragic incident. She and husband Tim Rosenman recorded a video after returning from their doctor visit where they spoke about the miscarriage in tears, clearly shocked and devastated. "I don't even really know what to say here," Port wrote on Instagram.
British singer Jessie J, whose real name is Jessica Ellen Cornish, revealed in November that she had gotten pregnant and lost her baby. The 33-year-old explained that she decided to have a baby on her own because it's "all I've ever wanted and life is short." She was devastated to discover there was no longer a heartbeat at her third scan. "Yesterday morning I was laughing with a friend saying 'seriously though how am I going to get through my gig in LA tomorrow night without telling the whole audience I am pregnant.' By yesterday afternoon I was dreading the thought of getting through the gig without breaking down…" She decided not to cancel the concert because music has a therapeutic effect on her. Although she is grieving and in pain, she had a message of hope: I'm still in shock, the sadness is overwhelming. But I know I am strong, and I know I will be ok." She added, "I also know millions of women all over the world have felt this pain and way worse. I feel connected to those of you I know and those of you I don't."
Teri Hatcher is now thriving in her fifties and has a grown-up daughter called Emerson, who is following in her mother's acting footsteps. What no one knew until now is that Hatcher decided to try for a second child by herself when she was in her early forties. She candidly described her experience on an episode of E! News' Daily Pop: "It didn't work out for me, but I tried to have a second child by myself and I went through that, got a sperm donor. I actually had a miscarriage, unfortunately." She later added, "I mean, who knew I was going to say that story today, but I just did!"
Britney Spears and Sam Asghari announced that they lost their "miracle baby" just one month after revealing that they were expecting their first child together. The couple shared a joint post on Instagram on May 14 that began, "It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that we have lost our miracle baby early in the pregnancy. This is a devastating time for any parent."
They added, "Perhaps we should have waited to announce until we were further along, however we were overly excited to share the good news." The pair thanked people for their support and said that they're leaning on each other for support, and that they're going keep trying to expand their family.
Sharon Stone commented on People magazine's Instagram post in June which featured an interview with professional dancer Peta Murgatroyd, who had spoken about losing a pregnancy while her husband, Maks Chmerkovskiy, was in Ukraine. "We, as females don't have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss. I lost nine children by miscarriage," Stone wrote in the comments. "It is no small thing, physically nor emotionally yet we are made to feel it is something to bear alone and secretly with some kind of sense of failure. Instead of receiving the much needed compassion and empathy and healing which we so need. Female health and wellness left to the care of the male ideology has become lax at best, ignorant in fact, and violently oppressive in effort." Stone is a mother to three children by adoption.
According to research, 10-20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. Despite its frequency, the subject is still considered taboo to discuss in public. However, several celebrities have opened up about their experiences having one or multiple miscarriages.
Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander and her husband Michael Fassbender welcomed their first child in 2021, but she has now revealed that her journey to motherhood wasn't an easy one. Vikander recently spoke about her "extreme" and "painful" experience with miscarriage in an interview with The Times. "We have a child now, but it took us time," she explained.
Vikander and Fassbender met while filming 'The Light Between Oceans' in 2016, a movie about a couple who can't have children and adopt a baby they find lost at sea. Vikander told The Times that her experience with miscarriage gave the film a whole new meaning. "[The miscarriage] was so extreme, painful to go through and, of course, it made me recall making that film. That film has another meaning now.' Vikander also recently played the role of a pop star who is forced to go back on stage on and perform after suffering a miscarriage in the show 'Irma Vep.' Reflecting on the difficulty of carrying on in the public eye after something like that, Vikander said, "'Sometimes you go through things that are tough in life and if you have an office job you can step away for a bit. But there are times that myself or colleagues have been through something and, well, I can't understand how they went on to the red carpet afterwards."
In this gallery, we look at stars who broke the silence and talked publicly about their experience with miscarriage and infant loss. Find out what they had to say.
Alicia Vikander and other celebs who opened up about their miscarriages
Alicia Vikander opens up about "painful" miscarriage she suffered before the birth of her first child
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According to research, 10-20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. Despite its frequency, the subject is still considered taboo to discuss in public. However, several celebrities have opened up about their experiences having one or multiple miscarriages.
Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander and her husband Michael Fassbender welcomed their first child in 2021, but she has now revealed that her journey to motherhood wasn't an easy one. Vikander recently spoke about her "extreme" and "painful" experience with miscarriage in an interview with The Times. "We have a child now, but it took us time," she explained.
Vikander and Fassbender met while filming 'The Light Between Oceans' in 2016, a movie about a couple who can't have children and adopt a baby they find lost at sea. Vikander told The Times that her experience with miscarriage gave the film a whole new meaning. "[The miscarriage] was so extreme, painful to go through and, of course, it made me recall making that film. That film has another meaning now.' Vikander also recently played the role of a pop star who is forced to go back on stage and perform after suffering a miscarriage in the show 'Irma Vep.' Reflecting on the difficulty of carrying on in the public eye after something like that, Vikander said, "'Sometimes you go through things that are tough in life and if you have an office job you can step away for a bit. But there are times that myself or colleagues have been through something and, well, I can't understand how they went on to the red carpet afterwards."
In this gallery, we look at stars who broke the silence and talked publicly about their experience with miscarriage and infant loss. Find out what they had to say.