Steven Spielberg’s stepdaughter Jessica Capshaw revealed the ‘deeply sad’ miscarriage she suffered eight years ago during Sunday’s episode of her iHeartRadio podcast, Call It What It Is.
The 47-year-old actress was responding to a listener when she detailed what happened when she tried to have a fifth child after welcoming her son Luke, 16; daughter Eve, 13; daughter Poppy, 12; and daughter Josephine, 8.
‘I got pregnant [at age 40] when Eve was 10 months old,’ Jessica recalled.
‘I got pregnant and I was so excited and I had never had any issues before getting pregnant. I was very lucky and I’m very grateful.
And then all of a sudden, at my 10-week appointment, [I] went in for the ultrasound, was by myself, totally unsuspecting, and there was no heartbeat.’
Capshaw called the loss ‘the most shocking and deeply, deeply sad thing’ considering she ‘came from a big family.’
The Missouri-born blonde went on to praise her husband of 20 years – The Honest Company co-founder Christopher Gavigan – for his support.
‘And then you know, life carried on,’ Jessica shrugged.
‘And I had a chance to take care of myself and my body and my relationship and my other children, and it was really incredible.’
Women are said to suffer miscarriages between 10 and 20 percent of the time, and 80 percent reportedly occur during the first trimester.
Jessica is the only child of retired actress Kate Capshaw and marketing manager Robert Capshaw, who ended their four-year marriage in 1980.
Capshaw was 15 years old when her 70-year-old mother wed three-time Oscar winner Steven Spielberg, who’s the ‘sweetest’ grandfather.
‘The kids talk about him all the time,’ the Brown University grad gushed on Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa last Tuesday.
‘They just think he’s the sweetest and the cutest, and they just are so proud of it.’
Jessica noted that her children understand ‘the bigness’ of the 77-year-old filmmaker, ‘but the value that he has to them as their grandfather clearly so far outweighs that, that it’s not the thing that they talk about. They really talk about how he makes them feel, which is, you know, he’s the best.’
Capshaw reprised her role as pediatric surgeon Dr. Arizona Robbins in the April 4th episode of ABC’s longest running medical drama Grey’s Anatomy – titled ‘Baby Can I Hold You.’
Last Wednesday, Jessica wrapped a mystery role in Rachel Israel’s comedy Miracle on 74th Street alongside Jill Kargman, Justin Bartha, David Krumholtz, Christine Taylor, Drew Barrymore, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Source: CNN
