The View host Meghan McCain announced in a new op-ed that she had a miscarriage “a few weeks ago.” She wrote, “I missed a few days of work. It wasn’t many, but given the job I have, it was enough to spark gossip about why I would be away from The View.” The 34-year-old explained that she had wanted her grief to “remain private,” but that she wanted to speak out to alleviate some of the shame women experience around miscarriage.
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“This was not supposed to be public knowledge. I have had my share of public grief and public joy,” Meghan wrote in the
New York Times. “I wish this grief — the grief of a little life begun and then lost — could remain private.”
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“I am not hiding anymore. My miscarriage was a horrendous experience and I would not wish it upon anyone,” she said.
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“Miscarriage is a pain too often unacknowledged. Yet it is real, and what we have lost is real. We feel sorrow and we weep because our babies were real,” the former Fox News contributor continued.
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Meghan explained that after her miscarriage, she blamed herself. “Perhaps it was wrong of me to choose to be a professional woman, working in a
high-pressure, high-visibility, high-stress field, still bearing the burden of
the recent loss of my father and facing on top of that the arrows that come with public life,” she said.
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“I blamed my age, I blamed my personality. I blamed everything and anything a person could think of, and what followed was a deep opening of shame,” Meghan continued. “Yet it is not my fault. Fault and blame are not at work here.”
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She wrote in the Times, “When my father passed, I took refuge in the hope that someday we would be united in the hereafter. I still imagine that moment, even as I trust that a loving God will see it happen. Now I imagine it a bit differently. There is my father — and he is holding his granddaughter in his hands.”
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Meghan is married to
Ben Domenech, a conservative writer who publishes
The Federalist. They married in 2017.
“This was not supposed to be public knowledge. I have had my share of public grief and public joy,” Meghan wrote in the
New York Times. “I wish this grief — the grief of a little life begun and then lost — could remain private.”
“I am not hiding anymore. My miscarriage was a horrendous experience and I would not wish it upon anyone,” she said.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“Miscarriage is a pain too often unacknowledged. Yet it is real, and what we have lost is real. We feel sorrow and we weep because our babies were real,” the former Fox News contributor continued.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Meghan explained that after her miscarriage, she blamed herself. “Perhaps it was wrong of me to choose to be a professional woman, working in a
high-pressure, high-visibility, high-stress field, still bearing the burden of
the recent loss of my father and facing on top of that the arrows that come with public life,” she said.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“I blamed my age, I blamed my personality. I blamed everything and anything a person could think of, and what followed was a deep opening of shame,” Meghan continued. “Yet it is not my fault. Fault and blame are not at work here.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Photo credit: Getty Images
She wrote in the Times, “When my father passed, I took refuge in the hope that someday we would be united in the hereafter. I still imagine that moment, even as I trust that a loving God will see it happen. Now I imagine it a bit differently. There is my father — and he is holding his granddaughter in his hands.”
Meghan is married to
Ben Domenech, a conservative writer who publishes
The Federalist. They married in 2017.
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