How These Stars Overcome Loss of Pregnancy?

In 2020, actress Zulay Henao was just a few weeks into her second pregnancy when she hurried to the hospital under the impression that her water had burst. In an interview with E! News, she said, "There was a lot going on with my body. "And I was like, 'This isn't normal. Like, I haven't felt this before.'" She began voicing her concerns around 7 p.m. that night and, after hours of scouring the Internet and reading "all these things I shouldn't have," she recalled, "I was, like, shaking inside of my body, shuddering inside of my body." That's when boyfriend Kevin Connolly made a call: It was time to go to the hospital. After a thorough check, Zulay got an all-clear from the doctors. "They're like, 'No, you're fine. It's just, you know, your body is going through all these changes,'" she continued. Which is precisely when she broke down: "I remember sobbing in the hospital room, like, 'How am I going to get through the next, like, seven months of this in one piece?'" This is what it feels like to experience pregnancy loss. It's a situation so common that there's likely no way it hasn't affected at least someone you know. But up until quite recently, miscarriages were rarely discussed, expectant moms instead following the well-meaning, but ultimately incredibly isolating, guidance that they keep their pregnancy under wraps lest they have to talk about such an unpleasant situation. As with so many other things, that particular tide seems to be changing, with everyone from Chrissy Teigen to Meghan Markle to Michelle Obama revealing that they have experienced the loss that affects one in four pregnancies. Each hoped that by sharing her story, she could help others feel just a little bit less alone. "We have learned that when people ask how any of us are doing, and when they really listen to the answer, with an open heart and mind," Meghan wrote in her searingly raw New York Times op-ed in 2020, "the load of grief often becomes lighter—for all of us. In being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing." And so the retired actress turned duchess and outspoken activist spoke in detail about that otherwise unremarkable July morning that saw her get now-3-year-old Archie Harrison from his crib only to experience the sharp cramp that brought her to her knees, letting her know "as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second." For Chrissy, that same realization came 20 weeks into her third pregnancy, in the hospital room she'd inhabited for days doing all she could to keep son Jack alive. But, she shared in a tragic September 2020 update, "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."