Sharon Stone Reveals 'Lost Nine Children By Miscarriage'

Sharon Stone has mostly been cast as a "strong woman" in her 100+ movie credits, to the extent of playing a femme fatale or even a woman with negative shades to her character.

In her personal life too, she has had to remain strong, considering an auto-immune disease and endometriosis rendered her unable to have biological children. In a comment to a story about Peta Murgatroyd suffering a miscarriage while Maks Chmerkovskiy was in Ukraine, Stone opened up on her nine miscarriages. Here's what the "Casino" actress had to say.

While Stone has had many high-profile relationships before, she married Phil Bronstein in 1998, only to get divorced in 2004. But in 2000, they adopted a son, after Stone suffered many miscarriages because of health issues brought on by an autoimmune disease as well as endometriosis. The couple adopted their son, Roan Joseph Bronstein in 2000, and initially, custody remained with Bronstein, with Stone having visitation rights.

Stone adopted another boy, Laird Vonne in 2005, and finally her third son, Quin Kelly Stone in 2006. She moved to a home once owned by actor Montgomery Clift with all three sons in West Hollywood, California, and rarely, lets her fans have a peek into her personal life. Like this:

She also stated in a 2018 interview, "They’re at a wonderful age when we don’t have to have a nanny living with us anymore. I can wake up on a Saturday and I come downstairs, and they’re playing and we hang out. We swim, play basketball, we watch movies. We have such a lovely family dynamic."

Her eldest, Roan has graduated culinary school and Stone could not be prouder.

People Magazine recently did a cover story on Peta Murgatroyd suffering a miscarriage while Maks Chmerkovskiy was in Ukraine. The two have been trying to expand their family for a while now but Murgatroyd is familiar with the loss, having suffered miscarriages twice before.

Stone commented on the Instagram post, "We, as females don’t have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss. I lost nine children by miscarriage. It is no small thing, physically nor emotionally yet we are made to feel it is something to bear alone and secretly with some kind of sense of failure."

Fans immediately responded to Stone, thanking her for her honesty, and writing, "Very true. I've experienced 3 pregnancy losses in 1 year, all during the pandemic. The mental and physical toll of the 3rd loss almost broke me and I'm still recovering almost a year later. If it weren't for 1 friend who shared her losses openly, I would have thought I was completely alone in this. As I've shared my losses with others I was surprised to find almost every woman I spoke with had experienced at least 1 loss herself."

The mother of three is clear about the need for better women's support and is unafraid to voice it. Plus, she's also happy to go at it in the kitchen, with her second son, Laird.

The 64-year-old "Basic Instinct" actress also had choice words for the way men treat women's reproductive health, writing, "We definitely need to talk about these things more. Too many of us suffer in silence when we could be grieving and healing together. Instead of receiving the much-needed compassion and empathy and healing which we so need. Female health and wellness left to the care of the male ideology have become lax at best, ignorant in fact, and violently oppressive in the effort."

Instagram concurred, with comments like: "Agreed. Being able to amplify the lived experiences of women is the first step towards creating necessary change."

As Murgatroyd puts it, a miscarriage on top of having Covid was the pits: "I had no strength. I couldn't open a dishwasher. I couldn't open the fridge to feed Shai, to get him some toast. It got so bad that my breath was starting to be affected. It was really dramatic."

Fans sympathized both with the pro dancer and the 64-year-old actress.

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