Lisa Snowdon 'had to keep going' while experiencing miscarriage live on air
Snowdon joins fellow celebs Rachel Weisz, Meghan Markle and Myleene Klass - among others - in sharing her miscarriage experience.
Lisa Snowdon has opened up about having a miscarriage while live on air.
"I was on the radio and I went to the bathroom and I was bleeding," the 51-year-old presenter revealed on Lorraine. "It was at the beginning of the show and I thought 'I have to keep going'.
News first broke of Snowdon's miscarriage experience a few weeks ago, as extracts from her upcoming book - Just Getting Started - were revealed. The Sun reported that Snowdon reveals in the book that violent attacks from an ex boyfriend may have contributed to the miscarriage.
Today, Snowdon elaborated on the experience and how she's accepted not being a mother. "A lot of women have struggled with fertility and coming to terms with the fact they're not mums," Snowdon said. "There is hope – you have to look at the things you do have and the love you do have in your life.
"I have nieces and nephews and I get to do all the fun things [with them]."
Despite pregnancy loss being extremely common, there remains a stigma around the discussion of miscarriage and stillbirth. Here are some other celebs who have opened up to help change that.
Rachel Weisz
Earlier this month Rachel Weisz revealed she previously had a miscarriage, and was surprised by some viewers' negative reactions to the exploration of baby loss in her new TV series Dead Ringers.
Speaking on The News Agents podcast, the actor, 53, who plays twin gynaecologists in the series, said, "Women have miscarriages, I've had a miscarriage, so you suddenly see blood coming out of your body and these are just all part of a female experience of being alive.
"So we're not used to it. I think we're not used to seeing any of those things being represented cinematically or fictionally. So maybe this is breaking some new ground, this show."
Meghan Markle
Meghan Markle spoke in 2020 about her own pain after revealing she suffered a miscarriage that summer.
In a deeply personal New York Times article, she wrote: "In the pain of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered from miscarriage. Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning."
Myleene Klass
Myleene Klass publicly shared in 2020 that she had previously suffered four miscarriages. But the singer revealed she had been encouraged to share her experiences in the hope of helping "even one lost soul".
"I am Mama to seven babies, Ava, Hero, Apollo my rainbow baby and four little stars in the sky," she wrote at the time on Instagram on Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.
"I know after my own MC’s [miscarriages] how I scoured the internet for stories similar to mine for peace, reassurance. I hope this helps even one lost soul."
Michelle Obama
Ahead of the release of her memoir, Becoming, the former first lady revealed in an interview in 2018 with Robin Roberts that she had suffered a miscarriage 20 years earlier.
"I felt lost and alone, and I felt like I failed because I didn't know how common miscarriages were, because we don't talk about them," Obama said.
"We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken. That's one of the reasons why I think it's important to talk to young mothers about the fact that miscarriages happen."
The former First Lady went on to conceive two daughters, Sasha and Malia, with the help of IVF.
Beyoncé
In 2019 Beyoncé opened up about suffering multiple miscarriages, revealing it "taught [her] lessons".
In an interview with Elle UK, the singer said, "I began to search for deeper meaning when life began to teach me lessons I didn't know I needed. I learned that all pain and loss is in fact a gift. Having miscarriages taught me that I had to mother myself before I could be a mother to someone else.”
Beyoncé had previously spoken about experiencing a miscarriage two years before giving birth to her oldest child, daughter Blue Ivy, in 2012. She described it as “the saddest thing I’ve ever been through” in her documentary Life Is But A Dream.
Lily Allen
Mum-of-two Lily Allen has also spoken openly about her experience of pregnancy loss.
"I think it’s difficult for anybody regardless of what world they live in," the singer previously said on The Jonathan Ross Show.
She added, referencing the support of her partner at the time Sam Cooper, "There are many women – 17 stillbirths happen in the UK everyday – that go home and they don't have that support, they have to go home and deal with that on their own."
Amanda Holden
Also a mum of two girls, Holden spoke candidly about losing her son Theo, when his heart stopped beating seven months into her pregnancy in 2011.
In an interview with The Sun, the star – who is married to record producer Chris Hughes – revealed that she turned to hypnotherapy to cope with the grief of losing her little boy.
"There is not a day that goes by when I don’t think about Theo, especially when a new school year begins," she said.
"But after we first lost him, Chris and I were diagnosed with PTSD so we went and had some therapy about that, as anyone would..."
The star later launched the charity Theo's Hope, which aims to raise money to help support other bereaved parents.
Kelly Brook
The model and radio presenter has previously revealed she suffered the loss of a baby girl, with her then partner, rugby player Thom Evans, at five months pregnant.
"I tried to have a baby but it didn't work. You can feel quite a bit of failure if you go through miscarriage, but as much as it was a real loss and a difficult time, I got through it," she told Fabulous.
Tana Ramsay
The wife of celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay opened up in 2020 about the devastating pregnancy loss she suffered in 2016, reflecting on how "amazing" her husband was in helping her through her heartbreak.
"Gordon was amazing, and he’s always been one to talk about everything and he was very good at sort of talking it out of me and never making me feel that, ‘Oh, you know, maybe we shouldn’t talk about it,’" she told the Metro.