Jennifer Lawrence Reveals She’s Had Two Miscarriages
In a new Vogue cover story, Jennifer Lawrence opened up about motherhood, pregnancy, and abortion, revealing that she had two miscarriages before giving birth to her son earlier this year.
The first time, Lawrence said she got pregnant in her early 20s and planned to have an abortion before she miscarried, which she said happened when she was “alone in Montreal.” The second, she said, happened after she and her husband, Cooke Maroney, whom she married in 2019, were ready to have a baby. She had to undergo a D&C procedure while filming Don’t Look Up to remove the tissue from her uterus.
Lawrence, who brought up her miscarriages while speaking about the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade, also spoke about feuding over politics with her conservative family members in Kentucky, where a trigger law recently banned abortion. “I remember a million times thinking about it while I was pregnant. Thinking about the things that were happening to my body,” she said. “Every single second of my life was different. And it would occur to me sometimes: What if I was forced to do this?” Later, she expressed anger that poor women would be most affected by the Dobbs decision. “It’s too personal to a female’s existence to watch white men debate over uteruses when they from the bottom of their hearts can’t find a clitoris.”
Lawrence gave birth to a baby boy earlier this year and revealed to Vogue that she named her son Cy after Cy Twombly (Maroney is a gallerist). “It’s so scary to talk about motherhood,” she said, “because it’s so different for everybody.” She confessed that she told one of her friends before giving birth, “Everyone keeps saying that I will love my baby more than my cat. But that’s not true. Maybe I’ll love him as much as my cat?” But she felt “like my whole life had started over” after giving birth. “I also fell in love with all babies everywhere,” she said, calling newborns “these pink, swollen, fragile little survivors … Now I hear a baby crying in a restaurant and I’m like, Awwww, precioussss.”
In the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Jennifer Lawrence shared her own story with Vogue about how she herself almost got an abortion in her early 20s. The actress revealed that she ultimately needed to undergo a D&C procedure, where tissue is removed from the uterus, following a miscarriage that she had while shooting Don’t Look Up, when she and her husband Cooke Maroney had been trying to start a family.
Lawrence got pregnant in her early 20s and “one hundred percent intended” to get an abortion then, Vogue wrote. But before she could go, “I had a miscarriage alone in Montreal,” she said.
Years later, Lawrence had a second miscarriage while shooting Don’t Look Up and needed to get a D&C.
The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade deeply enraged her. “I remember a million times thinking about it while I was pregnant,” she said. “Thinking about the things that were happening to my body. And I had a great pregnancy. I had a very fortunate pregnancy. But every single second of my life was different. And it would occur to me sometimes: What if I was forced to do this?”
Lawrence grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, in a conservative family. The 2016 election created a rift that she is still working to heal from.
“I just worked so hard in the last five years to forgive my dad and my family and try to understand: It’s different. The information they are getting is different. Their life is different,” she said. “I’ve tried to get over it and I really can’t. I can’t. I’m sorry I’m just unleashing, but I can’t fuck with people who aren’t political anymore. You live in the United States of America. You have to be political. It’s too dire. Politics are killing people.”
“I don’t want to disparage my family, but I know that a lot of people are in a similar position with their families,” she added. “How could you raise a daughter from birth and believe that she doesn’t deserve equality? How?”
'I had a miscarriage alone': Jennifer Lawrence details her two experiences of baby loss - revealing she suffered one in her 20s and one she 'very much wanted' while married
Speaking to Vogue for their October 2022 issue, the Oscar-winning actress reflected on her pregnancy with her son Cy, who she welcomed in February
She explained how throughout the pregnancy she found herself considering the changing landscape of women's rights
Jennifer explained that she had her first miscarriage in her early 20s and had 'one hundred percent' intended to get an abortion
She had another loss a couple of years ago while shooting Don't Look Up in late 2020/early 2021
She told Vogue that she found it difficult to fathom young women with limited options forced into unwanted pregnancies
