Celebrities who opened up about their miscarriages

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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Céline Dion - The singer struggled with fertility before giving birth to her premature twins, Eddy and Nelson.

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Céline Dion - Céline 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 - 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 - Elvis Presley's only daughter tried to conceive for two years before giving birth to her 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 - Jaime King 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, 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, who is mother to 17-year-old son Cooper, 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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