Ashanti's little sister Kenashia "Shia" Douglas is a public figure herself, keeping nearly 200,000 followers entertained on a daily basis with her regular social activity. Celebrating her thirty-first birthday this week, Shia decided to look back on all that has happened in her life to transform her into the woman she is today. Not all of it was pretty, and she was brave enough to let the public in on those moments too.
Shia took to Instagram to celebrate her birthday, sharing a video of all the transformative moments in her life, from the moment she was born to her thirty-first year. After the one-minute mark, things turn dark.
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Showing off a baby bump and a sonogram, Shia speaks of sacrifice and heartache before photos flash on the screen that show her with a black eye and a bloody mouth. Since Douglas does not have any children, this would also be her official reveal that she had a miscarriage, suggesting that domestic abuse played a part in the loss of her baby.
It takes a lot of courage to share something like this so let's all send love and light her way. Watch the video below and send her a nice message in the comments.
View this post on InstagramHalsey’s Miscarriage Was "The Most Inadequate" She’s Ever Felt
Halsey opened up about the miscarriage she suffered in 2015 while on tour, calling the devastating experience “the most inadequate I’ve ever felt.”
Halsey has been super candid in the past about the miscarriage she unfortunately suffered back in 2015, but in her recent interview with The Guardian, she got even more honest, confessing that the tragic experience was “the most inadequate I’ve ever felt.” Halsey has opened up about suffering a miscarriage at 20 years old while she was on tour many times, noting that the miscarriage actually occurred while she was on stage. As if the experience wasn’t upsetting enough, Halsey became the victim of online vitriol for sharing her struggle. Now, Halsey has dropped her new single, “More,” in which she expresses her desire to have a child. However, she admits that she was afraid of releasing it due to the abuse she faced online as a result of talking publicly about her miscarriage.
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“It’s the most inadequate I’ve ever felt,” she said. “Here I am achieving this out-of-control life, and I can’t do the one thing I’m biologically put on this earth to do. Then I have to go onstage and be this sex symbol of femininity and empowerment? It is demoralizing.” Halsey also talked about her struggles with endometriosis, a uterine condition and reproductive illness that poses a difficulty for conception. After receiving her diagnosis in 2017, Halsey decided to freeze her eggs, and now, she says that her most recent prognosis is looking positive. She told The Guardian that motherhood is “looking like something that’s gonna happen for me. That’s a miracle.” Happy for you, girl.
Kim Kardashian Thought She Had A Miscarriage While Pregnant With North
Kim Kardashian opened up about her miscarriage scare back when she was pregnant with North and her fears that the news would leak to the public.
Kim Kardashian revealed recently that when she was pregnant with her daughter, North West, back in 2013, she briefly thought she had suffered a miscarriage. Paying a visit to celebrity divorce attorney Laura Wasser on her All’s Fair podcast, the reality star and mother of four opened up about her scare during her pregnancy with her oldest daughter. Kim discussed the uncertainty surrounding her relationship with Kanye West at the time, as they had yet to tie the knot.
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“At the time, I didn’t know — Were we gonna get married? Were we gonna have this baby? It was all new territory to me and I was so scared,” Kim shared. “I thought I had a miscarriage because I was really heavy bleeding and in so much pain in Miami. I went in because you have to go and do a D&C to clean out a miscarriage. It was Thanksgiving morning and my doctor said, ‘Come in in the morning and we’ll do it Thanksgiving night so no one will see you.'” Kim was terrified that the public would somehow catch wind of the news that she’d miscarried. “I was so worried people would find out,” she said. “It was the first time I ever was pregnant. I was so nervous.” Despite the fact that her doctor had told her she’d suffered a miscarriage, they thankfully found a heartbeat the next day, and on June 15th, 2013, Kim and Kanye welcomed North into the world.
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Kim has heavily discussed the complications she had during both her pregnancies with North and Saint. She and Kanye opted to get a surrogate for their two youngest children, Chicago and Psalm, in order to continue building the Kardashian-West family.