This archive report was first published on 19 July 2019.
Celebrities Who Have Openly Talked About Suffering Miscarriages ¶
Miscarriage is a painful and often stigmatized experience that many people face. However, some celebrities have bravely spoken out about their own experiences with miscarriage, helping to raise awareness and reduce the stigma surrounding the issue.
In 2018, Size 8 suffered a miscarriage at just five weeks pregnant, leaving her and her husband DJ Mo heartbroken. Speaking to Word Is at the time, DJ Mo said,
My wife was five weeks pregnant before the miscarriage,” DJ Mo told Word Is. Miscarriage can be caused by so many things, like stress. Others may fail to adjust with the body, but we are doing well.
He added that the best way to overcome such an incident is to love each other, saying,
If you love each other, that is a small thing. All you need is to encourage each other and it passes.
In September 2018, DJ Creme and his wife Denise lost their unborn child while she was six months pregnant. DJ Creme revealed that he couldn’t forgive himself for being miles away when his wife was going through the ordeal, saying,
I Won’t Lie, It tore me to pieces because I couldn’t forgive myself for being miles away and yet my wife was going through this alone.
In January 2019, Nick Odhiambo and his girlfriend Janet lost their unborn son. Taking to Instagram to share the sad news, he wrote,
The countdown to your birthday cut short… Sometimes life just throws you a curve ball!!! but it is what it is…lil’ J’lani R.I.P. My son didn’t make it to see this beautiful world.
Former America’s first black first lady Michelle Obama has also spoken about her own experience with miscarriage. In her book Becoming, she writes about how she and her husband Barack used in-vitro fertilization to conceive their daughters Malia and Sasha. In a past interview with ABC News, Obama said,
I felt lost and alone, and I felt like I failed. I didn’t know how common miscarriages were because we don’t talk about them. We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken.
Akothee has also spoken about her experience with miscarriage. In 2016, she collapsed at a train station in Geneva, Switzerland and was rushed to a nearby hospital. Unfortunately, none of her unborn babies survived.
