People Are Praising Meghan Markle for Opening Up About Her Miscarriage
People Are Praising Meghan Markle for Opening Up About Her Miscarriage
Experts said her openness would help break down the stigma over discussing pregnancy and baby loss.
Meghan Markle's revelation that she suffered a miscarriage earlier this year is already having a profound impact on people.
Hours after her essay was published in the New York Times, people praised the Duchess of Sussex for her openness about her grief, and about an experience that many people often go through in silence.
On Twitter, writer Roxane Gay commended the "excellent and moving and sad" piece, while Monica Lewinsky tweeted the article, writing, "a private pain shared publicly may not help you, but it helps someone."
Chrissy Teigen and the Duchess of Sussex speaking openly about something that historically has given women so much pain, shame and trauma, is a game-changing step. I, and countless others, am so grateful to them. Beyond that, I simply want to tell them: I am so, so sorry. https://t.co/G7RNXKylco
— Elizabeth Day (@elizabday) November 25, 2020
When I had a miscarriage, I remember scouring the internet for articles by women who had been through the same thing. Because reading that you're not alone is helpful and it's comforting. So thank you to Meghan Markle for writing about something so difficult
— Anita Singh (@anitathetweeter) November 25, 2020
That Meghan Markle could write about her miscarriage knowing that it would add fuel to the fire of the demons who want her demise, makes her even more of a queen.
— Monisha Rajesh (@monisha_rajesh) November 25, 2020
This is quite excellent and moving and sad from Meghan Markle. https://t.co/I453YOwPM5
— roxane gay (@rgay) November 25, 2020
“what would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? the world would split open.”
-muriel rukeyser
a private pain shared publicly may not help you, but it helps someone. Opinion | Meghan Markle: The Losses We Share - The New York Times https://t.co/7Wzjscgt5m— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) November 25, 2020
Ruth Bender Atik, national director of the Miscarriage Association, which offers support services in the U.K., told New York Times that the duchess was "generous" to share experience, adding, "It can be very validating for people to hear the kind of feelings they’ve experienced are experienced by other people, too — no matter what their status is."
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The duchess is the latest public figure to speak out about experiencing miscarriage; in October, Chrissy Teigen wrote an essay about her pregnancy loss.
"Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few. 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," Meghan wrote in her essay. "Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning."
