Celebrity1 min(s) read
Published 12:04 12 Oct 2020 GMT
Chrissy Teigen took to Instagram on 1 October to share the devastating news that she and her husband John Legend had lost their unborn child, whom they had named Jack.
Teigen was believed to be halfway along in her pregnancy.
The 34-year-old, who has two other children with Legend - four-year-old Luna, and two-year-old Miles - had been updating her 31.5 million followers on the progress of her pregnancy, which became more complicated in recent weeks.
Alongside several black-and-white candid photos - which showed the aftermath of her miscarriage in an incredibly raw manner; one of her in tears, her head bowed on a hospital bed, and another of her holding the child in a bundle of blankets, with Legend's face resting on her shoulder - Teigen wrote:
"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."
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Now, Teigen has returned to social media for a much-needed laugh.
For the first time since sharing her loss, Teigen has returned to Instagram, leaving a comment on a photo on the @betches Instagram account.
The post was a screenshot of a tweet that read: “Just booked an eyebrow waxing appointment and I‘m excited I’ll be wearing a mask so I don’t have to hear ‘moustache too?’”
The cookbook author left a reply on the post: "Finally, a giggle. Thank you."
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Her response garnered hundreds of well wishes from fans.
Per the NHS, miscarriages are much more common than most people realize.
The website details that amongst women who are confirmed to be pregnant, it is estimated that around one in eight pregnancies will end in miscarriage. And 1% - approximately 24,000 pregnancies each year - end after 20 weeks in stillbirth.
