Celebrities Who Have Been Open About Pregnancy Loss: 'You Are Not Alone'

According to March of Dimes, 10 to 20 out of every 100 pregnancies end in pregnancy loss, and strong feelings of isolation are still very common after a pregnancy loss due to some of the completely unjustified stigma around it. "There's no open conversation about miscarriage," Christiane Manzella, clinical director of the maternal mental health organization the Seleni Institute, told The Washington Post in 2016. "There is no one way that women respond, and there are no ways that we really support women and their partners through miscarriage." According to Manzella, this is partly because of our "death-denying society." She added, "We don't even say the word 'death,' we say 'fetal demise.'"

Celebrities aren't immune to that statistic or to feelings of loneliness and isolation afterward, either. Fortunately, many stars, from Chrissy Teigen to Anne Hathaway, have used their platforms to openly discuss their own experiences with pregnancy loss over the years, all in an effort to destigmatize it and ultimately help others. And throughout all of their different stories is one resounding message: You are not alone. 

In September 2020, Chrissy Teigen was unabashedly open and honest when she announced her pregnancy loss with her husband, John Legend, due to a partial placental abruption at 20 weeks pregnant. In a raw Instagram post, complete with black-and-white hospital photos, she also shared her son's name. "He will always be Jack to us," Teigen wrote.

Since then, Teigen has become an unapologetic advocate for pregnancy loss and the many ways in which parents choose to grieve. After receiving backlash for publicly sharing the photos of her stillborn son, she wrote a blog post on Medium in defense of her decision. "I cannot express how little I care that you hate the photos. How little I care that it's something you wouldn't have done. I lived it, I chose to do it, and more than anything, these photos aren't for anyone but the people who have lived this or are curious enough to wonder what something like this is like," she declared before adding, "These photos are only for the people who need them."

In November 2020, Meghan Markle penned an op-ed for The New York Times titled "The Losses We Share," wherein she bravely revealed that she had suffered a pregnancy loss between the births of her other children, Archie and Lilibet. "I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second," she recalled about the devastating, life-altering moment she miscarried while in the midst of changing little Archie's diaper. And she didn't stop there. She was also careful to note the way in which society has built a wall around something that is unfortunately so common. "Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning," she wrote. 

Since then, Markle has continued to shed light on pregnancy loss, discussing it on her podcast, "Confessions of a Female Founder." In April 2025, Markle and guest Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, commiserated about their experiences with pregnancy loss. "I've spoken about the miscarriage that we experienced, and I think in some parallel way, when you have to learn to detach from the thing that you have so much promise and hope for and to be able to be okay at a certain point to let something go, something go that you plan to love for a long time," Markle told Saujani.

Anne Hathaway isn't just putting the over-40 baby boom back in the spotlight. In March 2024, the A-list actor also tackled pregnancy loss head-on during an interview with Vanity Fair. Hathaway recalled her own experience with pregnancy loss while lamenting the ways in which women are often made to carry this type of loss alone. "I thought, Where is this information? Why are we feeling so unnecessarily isolated? That's where we take on damage," Hathaway said. And from that moment on, she made it a point to speak out about it. 

It should also be noted that in 2019, while announcing her second pregnancy on Instagram, Hathaway was careful to include a disclaimer that she was "sending extra love" to anyone struggling to conceive or grieving a pregnancy, noting that her journey "was not a straight line either." Later, when asked about the move, she told the Daily Mail that "I just remembered how I felt when I was struggling myself."

Tragically, early pregnancy loss can happen to anyone, something that Kylie Kelce knows well. As the mother of four girls, one might never know that Kelce has experienced pregnancy loss. Alas, as it turns out, prior to having her four daughters, she miscarried during her first pregnancy. "I don't necessarily think that we should always have to be prompted to share what is very very normal in trying to grow your family," Kelce said while discussing how taboo the subject of miscarriage is during an October 2025 episode of her podcast, "Not Gonna Lie." Kelce went on to say that she sought solace in her mom, who had also experienced pregnancy loss. "I think it's important to have people around you that, that understand what you're going through and who are in on the struggles that you're having and feeling," Kelce added. 

However, even with support, she maintains that early loss had a trickle-down effect into her following pregnancies. According to Kelce, she carried an immense amount of fear into each subsequent pregnancy, oftentimes googling when her highest risk of miscarriage was – even with her youngest daughter, Finnley. "It never leaves you," Kelce said. 

Famous reality star Kourtney Kardashian and legendary drummer Travis Barker opened up about their heartbreaking pregnancy loss prior to having their son, Rocky, in the Hulu documentary "Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear." At close to three months pregnant with a baby girl they planned to name Tulip, they went in for an appointment, but sadly, the doctor wasn't able to find a heartbeat (via People).

During an interview on "The New York Times Popcast" in August 2026, Barker revealed that the couple ultimately came forward with their story about pregnancy loss to help others. "When there's things that can benefit people or help people relate to something, I think that's always like a green light," Barker said. "Our journey of miscarriages and then IVF and it's failed, resulting in us having a baby naturally — like I feel like that's a story that so many people can relate [to]."