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Jessica Brown Findlay opened up about her heartbreaking journey to motherhood, revealing she suffered four tragic miscarriages during her IVF process – including one just two months ago.
The Downton Abbey star, 35, is a proud mother to twin sons, whom she welcomed via IVF with her husband, Ziggy Heath, in November 2022.
In a candid conversation on Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast, Jessica shared her struggles along the way to extending her family.
When asked about her losses, Jessica revealed: ‘Well, before the boys were born, I had three.
‘I had two with conceiving unaided and one chemical miscarriage that happened with IVF that we knew was going to happen because the bloods had come back with really low numbers.
‘They do a blood test and they want to see this number double, and it just wasn’t. And then one happened about three, no, two and a half months ago.
Jessica Brown Findlay opened up about her heartbreaking journey to motherhood, revealing she suffered four tragic miscarriages during her IVF process, including one just two months ago
The Downton Abbey star, 35, is a proud mother to twin sons, whom she welcomed via IVF with her husband, Ziggy Heath, in November 2022
‘So we… Maybe a bit more than that now. Yeah. I mean, we were kind of terrified but thrilled. And, you know, we went for a scan, we went back to our doctor, our amazing doctor who’d helped us get our twins.
‘And she was so funny. She scanned me. There was one. And she was like, okay, great. Cool, cool.
‘And she said, “oh, you’re much cheaper than your brothers”. She’s very true. And it felt like this joyful, just, you know, gift out of the universe.’
Jessica then explained how she went to a friend’s wedding and had a funny feeling in her gut that she was going to lose her unborn child.
She continued: ‘This kind of intuition. We have it in positive circumstances, but there’s also something […] This sense of dread, just this real kind of thing that you just know.
‘And I thought, okay, instead of me going to this wedding and googling wild theories and signs at 3am when I should be, you know, celebrating with our friends, I’m, I’m going to book myself in […]And I went the next morning and I went for a scan, and there wasn’t a heartbeat anymore.
‘And, and I’d gone on my own because I was like, ‘look, no, no, no, I’m fine. Because, you know, you’re working. We’ve got the boys.
“I’m just going to go and if everything’s okay, then I’ll just come home”. And if it’s not, you know, we always say, we’ll just cross the bridge, we’ll just cross the bridge when we come to it. Let’s just see what happens.
In a candid conversation on Giovanna Fletcher ‘s Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast, Jessica shared her struggles along the way to extending her family
When asked about her losses, Jessica revealed: ‘Well, before the boys were born, I had three’
‘And I kind of made I was obviously devastated, but I just very clearly, you know, the woman sort of said what I should do and that I should get myself to a hospital.
‘And I just kind of made a beeline for the hospital where the boys had been born because i wanted to be somewhere familiar.’
Jessica gave birth to her twins on Bonfire Night in 2022 after undergoing IVF treatment.
Reflecting on her pregnancy with the twins after suffering three miscarriages, she explained: ‘Every day I was pregnant, I just wanted to enjoy that day as it was. And that day, they were.
‘And at the end of this, they arrive—amazing. But right now, I am. And it made me really sit and be present and really try to enjoy what it is.’
Giovanna replied: ‘That makes me feel very emotional, Jessica. That’s such a lovely way of looking at it.
‘You know, because I think pregnancy after loss is such a tough thing. And you know, I’ve had three babies born after a loss, but even with the third, I was still looking back at the… you know, I had boys arrive, but still, you kind of can’t help but go, ‘Am I going to be caught out?”
Jessica said: ‘Yeah, is it today that I laugh and think I’m fine? Or the day that I didn’t think about it?
The actress married actor husband Ziggy in September 2020, after they met while filming the Hulu series Harlots in 2017 (pictured in September 2022)
‘So, obviously, it will happen that day. And all of these kinds of mind things. And I was just like… there is nothing you can do. And so the idea of just being. But I can allow myself to try and have today.’
Announcing the news of the arrival of her twins, Jessica shared a snap on Instagram cradling her newborns with the caption: ‘5.11.22. Our boys! Remember Remember.
The star confirmed her pregnancy during a red carpet appearance at the Venice International Film Festival’s closing ceremony in September 2022.
The actress previously revealed she had undergone four rounds of IVF treatment in the hope of having a child, and spoke candidly about her fertility struggles in a post earlier this year celebrating International Women’s Day, along with a video of her injecting hormones.
In the post, she injected the hormones into her stomach, which typically increases the number of eggs produced by the ovaries.
The star posted a caption reminding her followers that ‘their bodies are not the enemy’, adding: ‘Happy International Women’s day! We do hard things and then go dancing.
‘IVF has made me even more aware of just how much women are capable of and what we can achieve whilst going through pain and heart break.
‘Your body is not the enemy. Love it. No matter what. Sending love and support to every woman I have ever met and all the ones I haven’t but know what this is.’
The star’s acting career took off when she starred as rebellious aristocrat Lady Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey between 2010 and 2012 (pictured)
Jessica married Heath in a low-key wedding in 2020 with just 30 guests in attendance due to Covid restrictions, three years after meeting on the Hulu drama Harlots.
During her pregnancy, she revealed that she was struggling to find work after becoming pregnant.
Her acting career took off when she starred as rebellious aristocrat Lady Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey.
The actress said the incident would have been treated differently if it had happened after the #MeToo movement in 2017.
She added: ‘Women wouldn’t have lost job opportunities and been traded on the dark web for a month before being leaked to the public because bodies are commodities.’
Jessica is currently starring alongside Anthony Welsh in the Paramount+ romantic comedy series The Flatshare, adapted from Beth O’Leary’s global bestseller.
The series follows Leon (Welsh) and Jessica (Findlay) as they share a one-bed flat but without having met each other due to their opposing work schedules.
But, as Post-it notes between them start to fly and each gets unexpectedly drawn into the other’s messy life, an attraction evolves.
