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Gabrielle Union is an actress that is married to NBA basketball player Dwayne Wade. Gabrielle has written a memoir called We’re Going to Need More Wine. In an excerpt released online, Gabrielle talks about her struggles with infertility. She never wanted kids until she fell in love with her husband and his two boys and nephew. She then began to explore IVF and has had 8 or 9 miscarriages. Gabrielle goes on to share that her body has been a prisoner to the trials of trying to get and stay pregnant. Over the last 3 years, Gabrielle has either been getting ready to start IVF, in the middle of a cycle or just ending one. All of the hormones have left her constantly bloated, but not defeated. Despite all of the struggles Gabrielle and Dwayne are determined as ever to make a baby.
Despite miscarriage still being a topic that a lot of women don’t openly discuss, Gabrielle is not the only celebrity that has opened up to the public about her struggles with infertility and pregnancy loss.
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Mara Lane
Mara is married to actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In September she shared on Instagram that the couple was expecting a second child but that she had a miscarriage. She also revealed that Jonathan, who is a recovering alcoholic took the news very hard and had a relapse. Currently, Jonathan has been unable to get into a rehab facility and so is living with a sober companion to help him deal with the relapse and the loss.
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Beyoncé
In 2013 Beyoncé did a documentary on HBO titled Life Is But A Dream. In the documentary Beyoncé, then already a new mom to 13-month old Blue Ivy, spoke about the miscarriage that she had two years before that. After she found out about the miscarriage Beyoncé channeled her pain into her new album and wrote the song “Heartbeat.” After Blue’s birth, Jay-Z released a song called “Glory” where he references the miscarriage as well and again on his newly released song “4:44.” In that song he mentioned feeling responsible for the miscarriages that Beyoncé suffered because he wasn’t there for her and implied that the one before Blue was conceived was not the only loss they experienced.
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Mark Zuckerberg
The man behind Facebook and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan announced that they were pregnant, on Facebook of course, with their first child. In the Facebook announcement, Mark shared that the couple was extremely excited and hopeful. But he also revealed that the couple had been trying to get pregnant for several years and during the process had suffered three miscarriages. It was an important moment for the Dad-to-be because the loss of a pregnancy is often suffered alone and often men don’t speak up about it.
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Giuliana Rancic
Giuliana has gone through a lot of medical issues over the last several years. In 2010 Giuliana and her husband Bill were excited to find out they were pregnant after just one round of IVF. But just nine weeks after announcing the pregnancy on their E! reality show the couple found out that they had miscarried. During the process of trying to get pregnant, Giuliana found out she had breast cancer. The couple eventually decided to use a surrogate to conceive their son Duke who was born in 2012. In 2014 the couple used two embryos and implanted them into the same surrogate who carried their son, but sadly she miscarried. Again, in 2015 the couple used their last embryo but the surrogate miscarried again.
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