Before Courteney Cox and David Arquette welcomed their daughter Coco in 2004 with the help of in vitro fertilization, the couple went public about Cox suffering multiple miscarriages. Only after they tried to conceive for several years did doctors discover that Cox had a blood-clotting disorder called Antiphospholipid syndrome, which is known to cause problems for pregnant women. When Cox and Arquette announced their separation in October 2010, it was speculated that they had suffered yet another miscarriage in their attempt to have a second baby.
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Following Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt’s separation in January 2005, rumors alleged that their marriage was over because Aniston wanted a film career instead of kids. But in his book, The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Ian Halperin released a new account that claimed that Aniston had suffered two miscarriages—one in 2003 and another in 2004, which shed light on the Aniston-Pitt separation. While Aniston has not admitted to having miscarried during her marriage to Pitt, in a 2005 Vanity Fair interview, she declared, “I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!”
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After years of failed attempts to conceive naturally, singer Céline Dion and husband René Angélil opted for the help of IVF treatments, which led to the birth of their first child, Rene-Charles, in 2001. In February 2010, Dion revealed to Oprah Winfrey that, in hoping for a second child, she and Angélil had tried IVF numerous times again, which resulted in Dion having suffered a miscarriage in 2009. But the couple maintained high hopes for a successful term pregnancy, and in October 2010, the 42-year-old Dion gave birth to fraternal twin boys, Eddy and Nelson.
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This past October, 41-year-old Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon announced they were expecting a baby. In the same statement, they also revealed having gone through the disappointment of a miscarriage two years prior. About the previous miscarriage, Carey told Access Hollywood, "It kind of shook us both and took us into a place that was really dark and difficult... I wasn't able to even talk to anybody about it.”
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This month, 25-year-old British pop singer Lily Allen suffered her second miscarriage after a viral infection sent her to the hospital. The singer, who was six months pregnant at the time of her most recent miscarriage, had experienced a previous miscarriage in 2008 with then-boyfriend Ed Simmons of the electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers. Of her first miscarriage, Allen told ABC News, “I was really depressed because of the miscarriage and I'd kind of lost the plot a bit."
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Tori Amos suffered a miscarriage in 1996 at the age of 33, almost three months into her pregnancy. She has since spoken out about the experience and wrote about it in her 1998 album, “From the Choirgirl Hotel.” She said at the time of the album’s release, “I lived with the feeling [of being pregnant] and got attached to the soul that was coming in. And then at almost three months, I miscarried. It was a great shock to me, because I really thought I was out of the woods....” Two years later, Amos and her husband, sound engineer Mark Hawley, had their first and only child, daughter Natashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley.
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Before giving birth to her third child, daughter Sailor Lee, at the age of 44, Christie Brinkley suffered three miscarriages with her then-husband, architect Peter Cook. After her first miscarriage, Brinkley told Good Housekeeping, “I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.”
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In a 2007 interview for Marie Claire, Nicole Kidman explained that she and then-ex-husband Tom Cruise had gone through a “miscarriage at the end of [their] marriage,” which came in 2001 following Cruise’s divorce filing, “[but] an ectopic pregnancy at the beginning.” She continued: “It was incredibly traumatic.” The couple eventually adopted two children, Isabella Jane and Connor Anthony. But all hope of having a natural-born child would not be lost for Kidman. In 2006, she married country singer and fellow Aussie Keith Urban, and in 2008 the couple had a daughter, Sunday Rose.
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Actress Jane Seymour had already given birth to two children in the ‘80s, but after marrying actor James Keach in 1993, she wanted one more child. In a 2009 interview, promoting her appearance on Dancing With the Stars, Seymour revealed she had experienced a miscarriage on live TV in 1993, while hosting the New Year’s Day Rose Parade in Pasadena, though no one knew about it at the time. Two miscarriages in total and several IVF treatments later, Seymour welcomed twins, Johnny and Kris, at the age of 45. During the pregnancy, Seymour suffered from an extreme rise in blood pressure and induced hypertension called pre-eclampsia, which is a potentially fatal medical condition.
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Following Brooke Shields’s surgery for pre-cancerous cervical dysplasia in 2000, she and her husband, television writer Chris Henchy, decided that turning to IVF treatments would lead to the best outcome for a healthy pregnancy. For months the couple tried to conceive. Shields underwent a series of infertility injections, and it’s been reported that she suffered multiple miscarriages. Then in 2003, Shields gave birth to her first daughter, Rowan Frances. And after publicly struggling with postpartum depression, and writing about it in her book Down Came the Rain, Shields and Henchy welcomed their second daughter, Grier Hammond, in 2006.
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