Natalie Joy, wife of “The Bachelor” star Nick Viall, is opening up after having suffered a second miscarriage.
In a heartbreaking Instagram story on Sunday, Joy shared that after having a miscarriage earlier this year, she “quickly and very unexpectedly” found out she was pregnant again. But she told followers that “this past week I miscarried again.”
“I underwent a D&C this time which was harder than I imagined,” Joy wrote. “It’s going to take some time for me to feel like myself again and honestly I may never will but I hope to keep y’all involved in whatever that may look like.”
According to the Cleveland Clinic, a dilation and curettage, or D&C, is a procedure to remove tissue from the uterus, which may be done after a miscarriage.
Viall, star of the 21st season of “The Bachelor,” has been married to Joy since April. They welcomed their first child together, River Rose, in February 2024. In a Mother’s Day post last year, Joy reflected that she has “always said I was put on this earth to be a mom and now that I am one it’s beyond anything I could’ve dreamt,” adding that “being River’s mom is my proudest accomplishment.”
Joy shared news of her first miscarriage in January in an emotional episode of the “Viall Files” podcast titled “Our Miscarriage Story.” She tearfully told listeners that “currently as I sit here today, I’m actively miscarrying our second child, and it has been the biggest heartbreak, I think, of my life.”
“I’ve never experienced something where I feel so empty inside,” she added, continuing that it would take “a long time to heal from this.”
In her post on Sunday, Joy said that it “took some time for me to accept what had happened only to be handed another chance so easily and so fast.” But “eventually I found so much happiness,” she wrote. “We were finally in a place of complete and utter gratitude.”
She concluded her Sunday post by saying she would be “going back to squeezing my husband and my sweet angel River Rose who are truly the reason I have survived this time and time again.”
In February, Joy revealed that she and Viall received matching tattoos of angel wings, hers on her neck and his on his hand, after her miscarriage. “With me forever my sweet angel baby,” she wrote.
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