Losing a baby is tough on both parents. It can be traumatic and the experience may never be erased from memory. Even though it gets suppressed, the one child that never was lives on as an experience for all time. It’s not just average people who suffer miscarriages or stillbirths or even a child’s death due to various causes. Celebrities too have had the same misfortune. Here are 15 celebrities’ who have lost children.
Jennifer Syme the girlfriend of Keanu Reeves gave birth to a stillborn baby in 1999 that they planned to name Ava Archer Syme-Reeves. But if this wasn’t tragic enough for Reeves, 18 months later, Syme also succumbed to injuries from a car accident.
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Joseph Simmons (AKA Rev Run) also was unfortunate to have a stillborn daughter Victoria Anne Simmons in 2006. His wife Justine was devastated but the couple pulled through and had issued this statement. "On September 26, 2006, Victoria Anne Simmons for some unknown reason chose to come early and unfortunately did not survive. We must accept whatever is there and once you accept unconditionally, then everything is beautiful. Every pain has a purifying effect."
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Yes! The late singer Prince and Mayte Garcia who was a backup singer had a son who suffered from Pfeiffer Syndrome. He was named Gregory and his condition resulted in a premature fusion of the bones of his skull. The couple lost him just one week after he was born on October 23, 1996.
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When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was married to Late President John. F. Kennedy, They gave birth in 1956 to a stillborn that they had named Arabella. That wasn’t the only tragedy. In August 1963, the couple suffered the loss of a second child Patrick who died when he was two years old. It was three months before Kennedy was assassinated.
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Katey Sagal was compelled to have a caesarian section just 7 months into pregnancy in 1991. The baby a girl was a stillbirth. She went on to have three more children, her daughter Sarah in 1994, son Jackson in 1996 and another daughter Esme in 2007 from a surrogate mother.
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Lily Allen contracted a bad infection in 2010 which affected her pregnancy causing a stillbirth at six months. Later she gave birth to two daughters Ethel in 2011 and Marne in 2003.
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The popular British singer Gary Barlow and his wife Dawn Andrews were unfortunate to suffer a stillborn child in 2012 whom they had name Poppy. The couple now has three children, Daniel, Emily and Daisy.
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Andrea Bernard, the wife of Ricky Schroeder delivered a stillborn child in 2004. However, moving on, they also have four children Holden, Luke, Cambridge and Faith.
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Kelly Brook, the famous model and actress also suffered a stillbirth in 2011.
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This Canadian singer was expecting twins who were both stillborn in 2011. That was a double tragedy in a single go. Fortunately, she had another child, son Shepherd in 2012.
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Michelle Duggar the star of "19 Kids and Counting" was unfortunate to have a stillborn daughter in 2011. The girl was to be named Jubilee. But!!Believe it or not, she has 19 more children choosing not to use contraception because of her religious beliefs.
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Supermodel Linda Evangelista gave birth to a stillborn child in 1990. However, she was blessed with a son in 2006 whom she named Augustin.
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Popular singer Marianne Faithful was also unfortunate enough to have stillborn daughter in 1968. She again gave birth to a boy Nicholas in 1965.
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Reality show judge Amanda Holden had a stillbirth in 2011 but she went on to have two daughters Lexi in 2006 and Hollie in 2012.
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Charlie Chaplin had a son in 1919 named Norman Spencer Chaplin. The boy sadly died after three days.
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