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Jennifer Lawrence
- Jennifer Lawrence revealed to Vogue in a September cover story that she suffered two miscarriages before giving birth to her son. The first was when she had gotten pregnant in her early 20s and “had a miscarriage alone in Montreal” before she could get an intended abortion. The second was when she got pregnant during the filming of 'Don't Look Up' (2021), which required her to subsequently undergo a surgical procedure to remove tissue from her uterus. The Oscar-winning actress brought up her miscarriages while discussing her anger over the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which led to her home state of Kentucky banning abortions. Lawrence said the move only worsened the rift with her Republican, anti-abortion family, even though she herself was only able to have a healthy child because of a medical procedure that is now restricted across the country.
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Jessie J
- Jessie J opened up about her miscarriage, which occurred back in November 2021, in an interview with 'Dragons' Den' star Steven Bartlett on his 'The Diary of a CEO' podcast. The British singer opened up about the traumatic experience in-depth, explaining how she woke up one morning and realized: "I don’t feel right." "I just knew, something wasn’t the same," she recalled. She visited a doctor immediately to get an ultrasound to check on the baby. The doctor told her that her baby's heartbeat was very low and weak, and there was a ring which "often means your baby will have some type of disability or deformity." Jessie asked, "But it’s still there?" and the doctor replied, "Yeah, it’s still there." But the feeling of something being wrong hadn't subsided, so Jessie phoned around for another doctor to get a second opinion, and found one with just 10 minutes to spare. He did another scan, but didn't give her the news she wanted to hear. "He said, 'I’m really sorry there’s no heartbeat,'" Jessie recalled. "That [scan] was within three or four hours of the first one." The singer, who was previously told that she wouldn’t be able to conceive a baby, said the "worst moment" of the experience was realizing that "being a mother and having a child has been the biggest excitement of my life." She continued, "I felt like I’d been given everything I’d ever wanted and then someone had gone, 'but you can’t have it.'"
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Chrissy Teigen
- In February 2021, Teigen spoke to Ellen DeGeneres about the tragic pre-term loss of her baby boy, Jack. "But being Thai and being raised in a house that was very open about loss, I think it was really helpful," she said. "I see it as, it can be a beautiful thing, and it was a really transformative thing for me. In a way he really saved me because I don't think that I would have discovered therapy and then sobriety and this path of kind of really feeling good about myself and feeling like a new person." In a lengthy post shared to Instagram on August 22, she said she's been so busy with her third cookbook she didn't "really feel like I fully processed jack and now that I don’t have the alcohol to numb it away, things are just…there, waiting to be acknowledged."
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Hilaria Baldwin - "I want to share with you that I am most likely experiencing a miscarriage," Hilary Baldwin wrote on Instagram on April 4, 2019. "I want to be a part of the effort to normalize miscarriage and remove the stigma from it."
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Hilaria Baldwin
- In August 2021, two babies after her miscarriage, she wrote on Instagram for National Rainbow Baby Day about her gratitude, but also about the "sadness written permanently in the pages of my life's book." She wrote, "We open and heal out loud not only for ourselves, but to let our sisters know that they are not alone."
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Beyoncé - In her 2013 HBO special 'Life Is But a Dream', the singer spoke openly about her miscarriage before giving birth to daughter Blue Ivy.
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Beyoncé - She later said in an interview with Oprah that it was one of the hardest things she's ever been through.
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Pink - During an episode of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' Pink announced that she was pregnant, but didn't want to announce it too early because she has had a miscarriage before.
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Gabrielle Union - The actress discussed many subjects in her book 'We're Going to Need More Wine,' and one of them was about her having multiple miscarriages.
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Gabrielle Union - Union revealed she had suffered "eight or nine" miscarriages, writing, "for three years, my body has been a prisoner of trying to get pregnant." Today, she's the proud mom of baby Kaavia James, who she had via surrogacy.
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Gwyneth Paltrow - In an interview with 'The Mail on Sunday,' Paltrow opened up for the first time about her devastating miscarriage and described it as a "really bad experience."
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Michelle Obama - The former First Lady revealed in her memoir 'Becoming' that she used in vitro fertilization (IVF) after having suffered from a miscarriage.
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Michelle Obama - She later explained in an interview with Robin Roberts: "I felt lost and alone and I felt like I failed."
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Courteney Cox - Before giving birth to daughter Coco, the 'Friends' actress experienced fertility issues.
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Courteney Cox - "I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them," she admitted to People in 2004.
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Lily Allen - In 2010, Allen went through a stillbirth, two years after having a miscarriage.
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Lily Allen - In a tweet, she admitted that the song 'Something's Not Right' was written in memory of her stillborn baby.
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Nicole Kidman - Nicole Kidman opened up about suffering a miscarriage when she was married to Tom Cruise. They adopted their daughter Bella after their loss.
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Halsey - Singer Halsey found out she was pregnant while she was on tour. Unfortunately, she miscarried during a concert while on stage.
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Mariah Carey - Before getting pregnant with their twins, Monroe and Moroccan, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon lost a baby to a miscarriage.
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Mariah Carey - "It kind of shook us both and took us into a place that was really dark and difficult," Carey said in an interview that aired on 'Access Hollywood'.
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Brooke Shields - The actress wrote about her miscarriage after undergoing IVF treatment in her memoir 'Down Came the Rain' in 2006.
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Brooke Shields - "We were crushed. Up till then, I thought simply because it was time and I wanted to have a baby, it would work out. Maybe I’ll never know why it happened. But it made me understand the difference between wanting to have a baby and truly wanting to be a mother," she said to People magazine.
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Celine Dion - After having her older son, the singer struggled with fertility before giving birth to her premature twins, Eddy and Nelson.
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Celine Dion - Celine Dion revealed that she was originally carrying triplets, and that she lost one baby early in pregnancy. "He chose to let go to give space to his brothers to grow," she explained in an interview.
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Kirstie Alley - In her candid memoir 'The Art of Men,' the actress opened up about her miscarriage and its toll on her body.
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Kirstie Alley - She wrote: "When the baby was gone, I just didn't really get over it. Neither did my body. I so thoroughly convinced my body that it was still pregnant after nine months that I had milk coming from my breasts. I was still fat, I was still grieving, and I had just been told it was very possible I would never be able to have children."
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Giuliana Rancic - Giuliana Rancic became pregnant after turning to in vitro fertilization, but the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage just nine weeks later.
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Giuliana Rancic - In 2012, Giuliana and husband Bill Rancic became parents with the help of a surrogate mother.
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Christie Brinkley - Former model Christie Brinkley had not one, but three miscarriages. She later opened up about it in an interview and said: "After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body’s way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn’t meant to be, and that it was better for everybody. But after the second one, it was really devastating. Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you...thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies."
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Sophia Loren - The actress lost two babies to miscarriages before fulfilling her dream and having her son Carlos.
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Sharon Stone - Before adopting her three sons, the actress suffered several miscarriages due to a genetic blood condition.
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Whitney Houston - The late Whitney Houston suffered multiple miscarriages, and one of them was while filming 'The Bodyguard.' "It was very painful, emotionally and physically," she told Barbara Walters of the experience. "I was back on the set the next day. And it's over. But I had Bobbi Kristina one year later, and I am blessed."
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Barbara Walters - Barbara Walters suffered three miscarriages before she decided to adopt daughter Jackie.
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Wendy Williams - Wendy Williams had a hard time conceiving her only son, Kevin Jr. She talked about her loss of pregnancies in a PBS special 'American Masters: The Women's List,' where she said: "I suffered several miscarriages including two at five months. That’s when you have the clothes already picked out, the nursery is already painted. They ask you do you want a funeral or do you want the cremation."
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Eva Amurri Martino - Eva Amurri Martino shared her experience with miscarriage in a honest blog post, where she wrote: "At my next visit for a routine ultrasound, however, the baby’s heart was no longer beating. Just like that, it was all over. I remained in the office and went through the procedure to remove the baby from my uterus."
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Melissa Rauch - The 'Big Bang Theory' actress gave birth to her daughter Sadie in 2017, after having a miscarriage previously.
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Lisa Marie Presley - After having her two older kids, Elvis Presley's only daughter tried to conceive for two years before giving birth to twins Finley and Harper. She experienced several miscarriages, as she told People: "My blood was too thick and would clot, which caused several miscarriages."
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Lisa Ling - On an episode of 'The View', the TV presenter revealed her experience with a miscarriage during her first pregnancy.
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Lisa Ling - Ling said she felt like a "complete failure." She now has two children with husband Paul Song.
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Valerie Bertinelli - The actress suffered a miscarriage in March 1987, and spoke about her experience in an interview with People, saying that she was "still not over that one."
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Jaime King - The actress had a hard time carrying her pregnancies to term because she suffered from endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). She had five miscarriages.
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Leandra Medine - The fashion blogger gave birth to twin daughters in March 2018 after having a miscarriage in 2016. She opened up in an essay on her brand's website, where she wrote: "it is pain I don’t wish upon Hitler’s most devout follower. It felt impossible to deal with emotionally, but even harder to try and suppress, which I so wanted to."
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Nancy Kerrigan - The former figure skater always wanted to have three children, but after welcoming her first son Matthew in 1996, she endured six miscarriages in eight years. Eventually she went through IVF to get pregnant with her second and third child.
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Tamar Braxton - In an episode of 'Braxton Family Values,' the singer revealed to her eldest sister, Toni, that she suffered a miscarriage.
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Loni Love - During an episode of 'The Real,' the talk show host opened up about her miscarriage and said that's the reason why she never had children after that: "I had so much love for that baby. ... That’s why I don’t take it lightly. After that, I made sure that I would never get pregnant again, because I didn’t want to have to go through that. I felt like it was a person that I was letting down."
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Ali Wong - Comedian Ali Wong "joked" about her miscarriage in her Netflix special 'Baby Cobra': "And he [her husband] felt so bad for me. And I used it as leverage and held that s*** over his head for a month and got him to do whatever the f*** I wanted him to do for 30 days. He took me to see Beyoncé. He bought me a bike off of Craigslist. That’s my miscarriage bike, and I love it very much. For 30 days, I finally had the marriage I always wanted."
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Hillary Scott - The singer spoke publicly for the first time about her pregnancy loss on 'Good Morning America' in 2016. "I also feel like there's this pressure that you're just supposed to be able to snap your fingers and continue to walk through life like it never happened," she said.
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Lela Rochon
- Lela Rochon is mother to Asia and Brandon, but experienced infant loss before. "After that, the next pregnancy was pins and needles for me and everyone around me. Anytime relatives received a late-night phone call, they worried I had bad news," she said in an interview.
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Laura Benanti - In a poignant piece on The Huffington Post, the actress opened up about miscarriages and the taboo around it, which is the reason why she called her essay 'My Experience With the Voldemort of Women's Health Issues.'
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Amy Brenneman - After having her first child, actress Amy Brenneman and her husband had a hard time conceiving their second child and experienced a miscarriage.
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Melissa Rivers - Melissa Rivers suffered a pregnancy loss before giving birth to her first born.
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Evelyn Lozada
- Evelyn Lozada experienced a second miscarriage while filming her reality show 'Livin' Lozada' and celebrating Thanksgiving with her family.
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Jennifer Lawrence
- Jennifer Lawrence revealed to Vogue in a September cover story that she suffered two miscarriages before giving birth to her son. The first was when she had gotten pregnant in her early 20s and “had a miscarriage alone in Montreal” before she could get an intended abortion. The second was when she got pregnant during the filming of 'Don't Look Up' (2021), which required her to subsequently undergo a surgical procedure to remove tissue from her uterus. The Oscar-winning actress brought up her miscarriages while discussing her anger over the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which led to her home state of Kentucky banning abortions. Lawrence said the move only worsened the rift with her Republican, anti-abortion family, even though she herself was only able to have a healthy child because of a medical procedure that is now restricted across the country.
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Jessie J
- Jessie J opened up about her miscarriage, which occurred back in November 2021, in an interview with 'Dragons' Den' star Steven Bartlett on his 'The Diary of a CEO' podcast. The British singer opened up about the traumatic experience in-depth, explaining how she woke up one morning and realized: "I don’t feel right." "I just knew, something wasn’t the same," she recalled. She visited a doctor immediately to get an ultrasound to check on the baby. The doctor told her that her baby's heartbeat was very low and weak, and there was a ring which "often means your baby will have some type of disability or deformity." Jessie asked, "But it’s still there?" and the doctor replied, "Yeah, it’s still there." But the feeling of something being wrong hadn't subsided, so Jessie phoned around for another doctor to get a second opinion, and found one with just 10 minutes to spare. He did another scan, but didn't give her the news she wanted to hear. "He said, 'I’m really sorry there’s no heartbeat,'" Jessie recalled. "That [scan] was within three or four hours of the first one." The singer, who was previously told that she wouldn’t be able to conceive a baby, said the "worst moment" of the experience was realizing that "being a mother and having a child has been the biggest excitement of my life." She continued, "I felt like I’d been given everything I’d ever wanted and then someone had gone, 'but you can’t have it.'"
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Chrissy Teigen
- In February 2021, Teigen spoke to Ellen DeGeneres about the tragic pre-term loss of her baby boy, Jack. "But being Thai and being raised in a house that was very open about loss, I think it was really helpful," she said. "I see it as, it can be a beautiful thing, and it was a really transformative thing for me. In a way he really saved me because I don't think that I would have discovered therapy and then sobriety and this path of kind of really feeling good about myself and feeling like a new person." In a lengthy post shared to Instagram on August 22, she said she's been so busy with her third cookbook she didn't "really feel like I fully processed jack and now that I don’t have the alcohol to numb it away, things are just…there, waiting to be acknowledged."
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Hilaria Baldwin - "I want to share with you that I am most likely experiencing a miscarriage," Hilary Baldwin wrote on Instagram on April 4, 2019. "I want to be a part of the effort to normalize miscarriage and remove the stigma from it."
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Hilaria Baldwin
- In August 2021, two babies after her miscarriage, she wrote on Instagram for National Rainbow Baby Day about her gratitude, but also about the "sadness written permanently in the pages of my life's book." She wrote, "We open and heal out loud not only for ourselves, but to let our sisters know that they are not alone."
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Beyoncé - In her 2013 HBO special 'Life Is But a Dream', the singer spoke openly about her miscarriage before giving birth to daughter Blue Ivy.
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Beyoncé - She later said in an interview with Oprah that it was one of the hardest things she's ever been through.
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Pink - During an episode of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' Pink announced that she was pregnant, but didn't want to announce it too early because she has had a miscarriage before.
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Gabrielle Union - The actress discussed many subjects in her book 'We're Going to Need More Wine,' and one of them was about her having multiple miscarriages.
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Gabrielle Union - Union revealed she had suffered "eight or nine" miscarriages, writing, "for three years, my body has been a prisoner of trying to get pregnant." Today, she's the proud mom of baby Kaavia James, who she had via surrogacy.
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Gwyneth Paltrow - In an interview with 'The Mail on Sunday,' Paltrow opened up for the first time about her devastating miscarriage and described it as a "really bad experience."
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Michelle Obama - The former First Lady revealed in her memoir 'Becoming' that she used in vitro fertilization (IVF) after having suffered from a miscarriage.
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Michelle Obama - She later explained in an interview with Robin Roberts: "I felt lost and alone and I felt like I failed."
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Courteney Cox - Before giving birth to daughter Coco, the 'Friends' actress experienced fertility issues.
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Courteney Cox - "I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them," she admitted to People in 2004.
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Lily Allen - In 2010, Allen went through a stillbirth, two years after having a miscarriage.
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Lily Allen - In a tweet, she admitted that the song 'Something's Not Right' was written in memory of her stillborn baby.
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Nicole Kidman - Nicole Kidman opened up about suffering a miscarriage when she was married to Tom Cruise. They adopted their daughter Bella after their loss.
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Halsey - Singer Halsey found out she was pregnant while she was on tour. Unfortunately, she miscarried during a concert while on stage.
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Mariah Carey - Before getting pregnant with their twins, Monroe and Moroccan, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon lost a baby to a miscarriage.
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Mariah Carey - "It kind of shook us both and took us into a place that was really dark and difficult," Carey said in an interview that aired on 'Access Hollywood'.
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Brooke Shields - The actress wrote about her miscarriage after undergoing IVF treatment in her memoir 'Down Came the Rain' in 2006.
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Brooke Shields - "We were crushed. Up till then, I thought simply because it was time and I wanted to have a baby, it would work out. Maybe I’ll never know why it happened. But it made me understand the difference between wanting to have a baby and truly wanting to be a mother," she said to People magazine.
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Celine Dion - After having her older son, the singer struggled with fertility before giving birth to her premature twins, Eddy and Nelson.
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Celine Dion - Celine Dion revealed that she was originally carrying triplets, and that she lost one baby early in pregnancy. "He chose to let go to give space to his brothers to grow," she explained in an interview.
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Kirstie Alley - In her candid memoir 'The Art of Men,' the actress opened up about her miscarriage and its toll on her body.
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Kirstie Alley - She wrote: "When the baby was gone, I just didn't really get over it. Neither did my body. I so thoroughly convinced my body that it was still pregnant after nine months that I had milk coming from my breasts. I was still fat, I was still grieving, and I had just been told it was very possible I would never be able to have children."
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Giuliana Rancic - Giuliana Rancic became pregnant after turning to in vitro fertilization, but the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage just nine weeks later.
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Giuliana Rancic - In 2012, Giuliana and husband Bill Rancic became parents with the help of a surrogate mother.
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Christie Brinkley - Former model Christie Brinkley had not one, but three miscarriages. She later opened up about it in an interview and said: "After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body’s way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn’t meant to be, and that it was better for everybody. But after the second one, it was really devastating. Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you...thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies."
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Sophia Loren - The actress lost two babies to miscarriages before fulfilling her dream and having her son Carlos.
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Sharon Stone - Before adopting her three sons, the actress suffered several miscarriages due to a genetic blood condition.
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Whitney Houston - The late Whitney Houston suffered multiple miscarriages, and one of them was while filming 'The Bodyguard.' "It was very painful, emotionally and physically," she told Barbara Walters of the experience. "I was back on the set the next day. And it's over. But I had Bobbi Kristina one year later, and I am blessed."
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Barbara Walters - Barbara Walters suffered three miscarriages before she decided to adopt daughter Jackie.
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Wendy Williams - Wendy Williams had a hard time conceiving her only son, Kevin Jr. She talked about her loss of pregnancies in a PBS special 'American Masters: The Women's List,' where she said: "I suffered several miscarriages including two at five months. That’s when you have the clothes already picked out, the nursery is already painted. They ask you do you want a funeral or do you want the cremation."
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Eva Amurri Martino - Eva Amurri Martino shared her experience with miscarriage in a honest blog post, where she wrote: "At my next visit for a routine ultrasound, however, the baby’s heart was no longer beating. Just like that, it was all over. I remained in the office and went through the procedure to remove the baby from my uterus."
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Melissa Rauch - The 'Big Bang Theory' actress gave birth to her daughter Sadie in 2017, after having a miscarriage previously.
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Lisa Marie Presley - After having her two older kids, Elvis Presley's only daughter tried to conceive for two years before giving birth to twins Finley and Harper. She experienced several miscarriages, as she told People: "My blood was too thick and would clot, which caused several miscarriages."
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Lisa Ling - On an episode of 'The View', the TV presenter revealed her experience with a miscarriage during her first pregnancy.
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Lisa Ling - Ling said she felt like a "complete failure." She now has two children with husband Paul Song.
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Valerie Bertinelli - The actress suffered a miscarriage in March 1987, and spoke about her experience in an interview with People, saying that she was "still not over that one."
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Jaime King - The actress had a hard time carrying her pregnancies to term because she suffered from endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). She had five miscarriages.
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Leandra Medine - The fashion blogger gave birth to twin daughters in March 2018 after having a miscarriage in 2016. She opened up in an essay on her brand's website, where she wrote: "it is pain I don’t wish upon Hitler’s most devout follower. It felt impossible to deal with emotionally, but even harder to try and suppress, which I so wanted to."
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Nancy Kerrigan - The former figure skater always wanted to have three children, but after welcoming her first son Matthew in 1996, she endured six miscarriages in eight years. Eventually she went through IVF to get pregnant with her second and third child.
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Tamar Braxton - In an episode of 'Braxton Family Values,' the singer revealed to her eldest sister, Toni, that she suffered a miscarriage.
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Loni Love - During an episode of 'The Real,' the talk show host opened up about her miscarriage and said that's the reason why she never had children after that: "I had so much love for that baby. ... That’s why I don’t take it lightly. After that, I made sure that I would never get pregnant again, because I didn’t want to have to go through that. I felt like it was a person that I was letting down."
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Ali Wong - Comedian Ali Wong "joked" about her miscarriage in her Netflix special 'Baby Cobra': "And he [her husband] felt so bad for me. And I used it as leverage and held that s*** over his head for a month and got him to do whatever the f*** I wanted him to do for 30 days. He took me to see Beyoncé. He bought me a bike off of Craigslist. That’s my miscarriage bike, and I love it very much. For 30 days, I finally had the marriage I always wanted."
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Hillary Scott - The singer spoke publicly for the first time about her pregnancy loss on 'Good Morning America' in 2016. "I also feel like there's this pressure that you're just supposed to be able to snap your fingers and continue to walk through life like it never happened," she said.
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Lela Rochon
- Lela Rochon is mother to Asia and Brandon, but experienced infant loss before. "After that, the next pregnancy was pins and needles for me and everyone around me. Anytime relatives received a late-night phone call, they worried I had bad news," she said in an interview.
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Laura Benanti - In a poignant piece on The Huffington Post, the actress opened up about miscarriages and the taboo around it, which is the reason why she called her essay 'My Experience With the Voldemort of Women's Health Issues.'
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Amy Brenneman - After having her first child, actress Amy Brenneman and her husband had a hard time conceiving their second child and experienced a miscarriage.
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Melissa Rivers - Melissa Rivers suffered a pregnancy loss before giving birth to her first born.
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Evelyn Lozada
- Evelyn Lozada experienced a second miscarriage while filming her reality show 'Livin' Lozada' and celebrating Thanksgiving with her family.
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Celebrities who opened up about their miscarriages
Tony-winning actress Laura Benanti reveals she performed on stage during a miscarriage
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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.
Broadway star Laura Benanti recently took to Instagram on April 5 to share her painful and recent history of pregnancy loss. "On Monday April 3rd, I performed on stage for 2000 people while having a miscarriage. I knew it was happening. It started slowly the night before. If it had been our first loss, or even our second, I likely wouldn’t have been able to go on. But unfortunately, I am not a stranger to the pain and emptiness of losing a pregnancy." She went on to thank all of those who were around her as she went through that traumatic event, from the audience who "lifted me out of my grief for that Holy hour," to her band for "holding me, unconditionally, in your hearts," and to her producers, "who could give a masterclass on how to handle a personal emergency with empathy and compassion."
She concluded the heart-wrenching but beautifully worded post by saying that she was sharing her experience "to remind the many people and families who have and will suffer in this way that there is no shame in this kind of loss." She signed off, "My hand in yours, Laura."
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.
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HEALTH Behavior
Emotional overeating: why it happens, and how to deal with it
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HEALTH Men's health