Nancy Kerrigan reveals 6 miscarriages: "It's devastating"

by Carolyn Robertson posted in Pregnancy
Skater Nancy Kerrigan's professional life has definitely made headlines over the years, but the Olympic medalist is now opening up about her personal struggles as well.
Nancy, 47, is competing on Dancing with the Stars this season, and in an emotional clip from the show she reveals that she suffered a string of six miscarriages in under a decade.
?I always wanted to have three kids by the time I was 30,? she says. "Sort of like what my mom had done."
At first, things seemed to be going according to plan: After marrying her agent Jerry Solomon in 1995, the newlyweds welcomed their first child, Matthew, just a year later.
Read this: Actress? powerful message on miscarriage: ?You are not broken? Nancy happily made the leap to motherhood, but she and her husband faced one heartbreak after another when they tried to grow their family further.
"Not long after having Matthew, we thought, we want to have more kids, so I got pregnant but... I had a miscarriage."
"It was pretty awful," she says. "You feel guilty and [wonder], what did you do wrong""
Tragically, that loss turned out to be the first of many as Nancy reveals that she suffered six miscarriages in eight years: "It was really hard actually," she recalls, breaking down in tears. "It felt almost shameful, I think, because I couldn't do it on my own."
As the miscarriages continued, doctors were unable to determine their...
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