Celebs break taboo sharing their pain after miscarriage
SINGER John Legend and his supermodel wife Chrissy Teigen have been left devastated after they lost their third child following pregnancy complications.
Taking to Instagram with a series of heartbreaking black and white pictures, the couple shared their news with fans.
One photo showed Teigen, 34, crying as she held their baby, who they named Jack, with Legend tenderly kissing her shoulder while in her hospital bed.
She wrote: “We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before.
“Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever.”
In taking to social media, Teigen joined a growing list of celebrities who have broken a social taboo in recent years to speak out about pregnancy loss.
Others include the former first lady Michelle Obama, the singers Beyoncé and Celine Dion and actors Hugh Jackman, Brooke Shields and Kirstie Alley.
“What nobody tells you is that miscarriage happens all the time, to more women than you’d ever guess, given the relative silence around it,” Mrs Obama wrote in Becoming, her 2018 memoir.
“I learned this only after I mentioned that I’d miscarried to a couple of friends, who responded by heaping me with love and support and also their own miscarriage stories.”
Whereas some critics have turned their noses up at such disclosures saying it makes them feel “uncomfortable”, the openness of the celebrities has been a huge comfort to thousands of other women.
I’m no friend of social media, too often people use it for their anger and hate, but history has shown only when we see for ourselves the cruelties of the world, do we gain a better understanding for all.