By Allyson Chiu, Washington Post
The series of black and white photos appeared on Chrissy Teigen’s Instagram account last fall. Teigen, a mother of two, had been actively documenting her third pregnancy on social media, providing updates even when complications landed her in the hospital.
The photos shared on Sept. 30, though, were unlike anything Teigen had posted in the past.
In one image, Teigen could be seen sitting hunched over on a hospital bed with her hands clasped in front of her face. Tears were visible on her cheeks. Another photo captured Teigen cradling a small blanket-wrapped bundle with her husband, singer John Legend, close by.
January is Sanctity of Human Life month. It also happens to be the month that I lost my first child to miscarriage eleven years ago. My husband, Dan, and I had just set out on a new adventure the last day of 2009. After much prayer, we decided to move from Detroit to Peoria, Ill. We spent New Year’s Eve driving through a blizzard with a full moving truck, two Golden Retrievers, a baby in my belly, and the promise that God would never leave us nor forsake us.
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Three days after arriving in Peoria, I miscarried, and my entire world fell apart. I questioned whether God was as good as my Christian faith had always told me He was. Did He really love me any longer? Was anything I formerly thought to be true really true? My new year, my fresh start, had suddenly turned into a nightmare.
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Sharing miscarriage publicly
Chrissy Teigen is a high-profile and active user of social media. So when she and her husband John Legend lost their third child to miscarriage in September, it s not surprising that she shared the devastating news with her Instagram followers. We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn t enough, Teigen wrote of her loss at 20 weeks of pregnancy. To our Jack I m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn t give you the home you needed to survive. We will always love you.