Motherhood is a new chapter in a woman’s life and a different (in some cases, special) experience. But it’s not always a good experience. Many a time, pregnancy ends in a painful heartbreak. Miscarriages are more common than we’d like to accept and yet not many people talk about it but over the years, there has been a shift in the thinking. This is probably why we have many celebs coming out in the open and talking about taboo topics like abortion and miscarriages because the fact is that it’s real and it’s painful. Plus it’s nothing to shy away from or feel ashamed about. Recently, actress Sharon Stone opened up about suffering miscarriages and how women feel about losing a baby.
Commenting on an Instagram post by People, Sharon Stone shared that women don’t have a safe space to discuss the “profundity” of a miscarriage. Revealing that she has lost 9 children by miscarriage, the award-winning actress said that women are made to feel that miscarriage is something that they’re supposed to bear alone and in secrecy “with some kind of sense of failure”. She went on to add that instead of the compassion, empathy and healing that women need, they’re made to feel like failures. “Female health and wellness left to the care of the male ideology has become lax at best, ignorant in fact, and violently oppressive in effort,” read her comment.
Earlier in 2017, in an interview with EXTRATV, Sharon Stone had revealed that she had a genetic blood condition that prevents her from carrying a child to term. The actress left this comment under a post shared by People featuring an exclusive interview with Dancing with the Stars performer Peta Murgatroyd. In the interview, the star had spoken about losing a pregnancy Maks Chmerkovskiy was in Ukraine.
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And we totally agree with Sharon Stone. Time and again, miscarriages are treated as a woman’s failure and not like a loss that has taken a toll on her body and mind. I believe this comes from a place of misogyny as, for a very long time, it has been considered a woman’s duty to bear kids and to not be able to do that is looked down upon even today in 2022. It’s heartbreaking that even today women don’t receive the respect that they should as human beings and are still treated as baby-making machines.
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