Chrissy Teigen fans are sharing their heartbreaking experiences with pregnancy loss after she posted about losing her son
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are "shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about" after their pregnancy loss, the model and entrepreneur wrote on Instagram and Twitter Wednesday night.
Teigen, 34, who'd been pregnant with the couple's third child, was put on bed rest in early September and then hospitalized earlier this week for severe bleeding related to a weak uterus.
"Bags and bags" of blood transfusions "just [weren't] enough" to save the pregnancy, she wrote.
"On this darkest of days, we will grieve, we will cry our eyes out," she wrote. "But we will hug and love each other harder and get through it."
Fellow celebrities, fans, and women who've experiened similar losses responded in the comments with love, support, and personal stories of their experiences with miscarriage and stillbirth.
One Instagram user shared a poem she wrote on what would have been her son's 10th birthday.
"There's a box inside my closet; where half my heart belongs. It's filled with clothes you never wore, with lullabies and songs," it begins. "You were just around the corner, I'm a half a second late. Still trying to win a race against this unforgiving fate."
Another wrote, "Oh, momma. It hurts. I've been there. My Maya's birthday is Monday, stillborn at 21 weeks. Breathe, hug Miles and Luna, lean on your people. Sending you love and healing."
TV host and author Kelsey Nixon wrote "It's unbearable pain and feels terribly unfair. I've also been there, losing my son Leo who was born far too early thanks to a poorly functioning placenta."
She added that she's "seen countless blessings and gifts" she believes came from him, and is sure Teigen and Legend will "witness the same from your sweet Jack's short, yet meaningful life."
Another follower shared a saying — "grief is just love that has nowhere to go" that helped her understand her grief after her pregnancy loss. "Now, I have days where that love rests in my heart peacefully, and days where it still flows down my cheeks in my tears," she wrote.
One woman shared her own post on Instagram, saying last month she was supposed to be a part of a joint baby shower, but instead planned only for her friend's.
Another wrote she understood Teigen's pain.
"You go home with no baby but a breast full of milk. You feel the reminders of the birth. You question what did I do wrong and you ask God why," her Instagram post says. "Time does not heal the brokenness from the loss of a child time only allows you to formulate a plan on how to function with a void."
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