Kate Beckinsale slams critics of Chrissy Teigen miscarriage photos, reveals past loss

Mike Stunson
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A day after Chrissy Teigen announced that she suffered a pregnancy loss, actress Kate Beckinsale said she previously lost a baby of her own.

Beckinsale wrote a lengthy post on Instagram Friday thanking Teigen for sharing intimate photos after her miscarriage, while also slamming her critics.

“I’ve noticed people criticizing @chrissyteigen for sharing deeply intimate photos of the loss of her baby,” Beckinsale wrote. “As if there’s some protocol during soul-scouring calamity that, if not observed, emboldens people who do not know her or her family to say how she should be handling the unimaginable.”

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I’ve noticed people criticizing @chrissyteigen for sharing deeply intimate photos of the loss of her baby. As if there’s some protocol during soul-scouring calamity that, if not observed, emboldens people who do not know her or her family to say how she should be handling the unimaginable. Years ago, I lost a baby at 20 weeks. I had managed to keep my pregnancy quiet and I absolutely collapsed inside and no one would have known. There is grief, shame and shock so often that come with an experience like this, plus the heartbreak of your body continuing, after the loss, to act as if it had a child to nurture. Your milk comes in, with no one to feed. It can be the loneliest, most soul destroying period of time, particularly if you are not in the position of having an emotionally connected, supportive partner like Chrissy has. I think it’s an honour to be allowed into another persons grief, especially with a subject like this which so often puts a woman into that hall of mirrors state of life continuing as if the world hasn’t, for you ,come to a bloody and terrible halt. Sending so much love to the Legend family, but also so much to the women and couples who have kept it quiet and suffered. I know there are so many. Thank you @chrissyteigen for making sure it is abundantly clear how devastating this is, and how life changing it can be without support. Let’s let the grieving decide what’s right for them. Send support or keep quiet . This is a really hard time to bear .Blessings and hugs to all x

A post shared by Kate Beckinsale (@katebeckinsale) on Oct 2, 2020 at 4:16am PDT

Beckinsale went on to say she lost a baby at 20 weeks “years ago.” The actress, who starred in “The Aviator,” “Van Helsing” and “Pearl Harbor,” said losing a baby can be“the loneliest, most soul destroying period of time.”

“There is grief, shame and shock so often that come with an experience like this, plus the heartbreak of your body continuing, after the loss, to act as if it had a child to nurture. Your milk comes in, with no one to feed,” she wrote.

Teigen was admitted to the hospital Sunday due to bleeding. She said doctors were unable to stop the bleeding despite numerous transfusions.

The model, TV personality and wife to singer John Legend shared multiple photos on Instagram after suffering her loss. She was seen crying in one photo and in others Legend was shown comforting her in her hospital bed.

Some people questioned on social media why Teigen would share such personal photos. Beckinsale fired back at those critics, saying “it’s an honour to be allowed into another person’s grief.”

“Thank you @chrissyteigen for making sure it is abundantly clear how devastating this is, and how life changing it can be without support,” she said. “Let’s let the grieving decide what’s right for them. Send support or keep quiet.”