{"id":27160,"date":"2019-07-17T11:12:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1057461"},"modified":"2019-07-17T11:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:12:02","slug":"shay-mitchell-tearfully-opens-up-about-miscarriage-before-rainbow-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/shay-mitchell-tearfully-opens-up-about-miscarriage-before-rainbow-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Shay Mitchell Tearfully Opens Up About Miscarriage Before Rainbow Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019617\/rs_600x600-190717094148-shay-mitchell-youtube-2.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.161875945537\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.403933434191\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/shay_mitchell\">Shay Mitchell<\/a><\/strong> is sharing a very personal story with her fans.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of 2019, the <em>Pretty Little Liars<\/em> alum&nbsp;revealed the devastating news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1000538\/shay-mitchell-calls-for-more-compassion-after-revealing-miscarriage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she had suffered a miscarriage<\/a>. In a message to her followers, Mitchell wrote, &#8220;The support and affection that so many of you show me lifts me up during even my darkest days, one of which happened last year after I miscarried and lost the child of my hopes and dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Six months later, in late June, the <em>You<\/em> actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1053145\/surprise-shay-mitchell-reveals-she-s-pregnant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed that she&#8217;s pregnant<\/a> with her rainbow baby. Now, Mitchell is opening up about her pregnancy, as well, as being &#8220;blindsided&#8221; by her miscarriage, in her new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CUG3a60BEJY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> series, &#8220;Almost Ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21\">\n<p>In the first episode of the series, entitled &#8220;Keeping a Secret,&#8221; Mitchell talks about her relationship with boyfriend&nbsp;<strong>Matte Babel<\/strong>, who she says will&nbsp;be a &#8220;great dad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Matt and I started quietly dating about three years ago,&#8221; Mitchell says. &#8220;I guess you could say we&#8217;re best friends now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later on in the video,&nbsp;Mitchell, who is about six months along, explains why she chose to wait a bit before announcing her current pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I chose to hold on until I announced because of the first time,&#8221; Mitchell says.&nbsp;&#8220;It didn&#8217;t go as I had hoped for, and it was extremely difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"68\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"26\">\n<p>&#8220;The first time that I was pregnant last year, Matt and I hadn&#8217;t been planning, it happened and we were really excited about it,&#8221; she shares. &#8220;I was like 14 weeks, at that point, I had no idea the percentage of miscarriages. When it happened I was just, completely blindsided by it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shay then breaks down in tears as she says that she still has the ultrasound photos on her phone and footage of her visits to the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it&#8217;s weird because, I haven&#8217;t looked at them, obviously,&#8221; Shay says as she wipes away her tears. &#8220;But, it&#8217;s not like I forgot about that happening, so of course I&#8217;m like super happy, but I still feel for that one that I lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video above to see Mitchell open up about her journey and announcing her pregnancy to the world.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1057461\/shay-mitchell-tearfully-opens-up-about-miscarriage-before-rainbow-baby?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shay Mitchell is sharing a very personal story with her fans. At the start of 2019, the Pretty Little Liars alum&nbsp;revealed the devastating news that she had suffered a miscarriage. In a message to her followers, Mitchell wrote, &#8220;The support and affection that so many of you show me lifts me up during even my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-14 01:58:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}