Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has revealed in an emotional essay published in The New York Times that she had a miscarriage in July. She said she is sharing her experience to help others.
The duchess wrote that she “knew, as I clutched my firstborn son, that I was losing my second.”
Markle and her husband, Great Britain's Prince Harry, are parents to 18-month-old Archie.
The 39-year-old wrote, one morning she felt a sharp cramp while changing her son’s diaper, and while humming a lullaby to try to keep both her child and herself calm, she realized that she was having a miscarriage. Hours later in the hospital, she shared that while holding her husband’s hand, her “eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we’d heal.”
Markle said she wrote the article to help break the silence about a phenomenon that is “experienced by many but talked about by few.” Between 10 to 20 women in a room of 100 will have experienced a miscarriage, “yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo,” Markle wrote, “perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning.”
In sharing her story, Markle said she hopes to give license to others to do the same. “In being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing,” she wrote, asking that people commit themselves this Thanksgiving to reaching out and asking others if they are doing okay.
“As much as we may disagree, as physically distanced as we may be, the truth is that we are more connected than ever because of all we have individually and collectively endured this year.”
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