Kate Beckinsale clapped back at critics of Chrissy Teigen, who faced online abuse for sharing details of her pregnancy loss
- Actor Kate Beckinsale is standing in solidarity with Chrissy Teigen.
- Beckinsale wrote that she suffered a miscarriage at 20 weeks and that she "absolutely collapsed inside."
- Teigen posted on Thursday in a series of Instagram pictures that she lost her unborn son after being hospitalized due to excessive bleeding.
- Teigen's social-media posts about her pregnancy loss have garnered criticism from online trolls but have also inspired people to share their own experiences with miscarriage and stillbirth.
Actor Kate Beckinsale sent out a message of support to Chrissy Teigen, who has been faced with online harassment and abuse after sharing intimate details of her pregnancy loss online.
Teigen announced that she lost her pregnancy in an Instagram post on Thursday. She shared photos of herself holding her unborn son alongside husband John Legend. The model and TV personality had been hospitalized for several days for excessive bleeding prior to her miscarriage.
"We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we've never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn't enough," Teigen captioned her Instagram post.
In response to Teigen opening up about her experience with pregnancy loss, "Underworld" star Beckinsale posted a photo of a handwritten note via Instagram on Friday. In her caption, Beckinsale shared that she previously suffered a miscarriage.
"I've noticed people criticizing @chrissyteigen for sharing deeply intimate photos of the loss of her baby. As if there's some protocol during soul-scouring calamity that, if not observed, emboldens people who do not know her or her family to say how she should be handling the unimaginable," Beckinsale captioned her Instagram post.
Beckinsale wrote that she suffered a miscarriage at 20 weeks and that she "absolutely collapsed inside."
She also wrote that experiencing a miscarriage can be the "loneliest, most soul destroying period of time," and that she appreciated Teigen for opening up about her painful experience.
"Thank you @chrissyteigen for making sure it is abundantly clear how devastating this is, and how life changing it can be without support," Beckinsale wrote.
Teigen's emotional Instagram post featured photos of herself holding her unborn sun alongside "All of Me" singer Legend.
The cookbook author also shared that she and Legend planned to name their son Jack in her Instagram post.
After announcing that she lost her pregnancy, Teigen became the victim of online abuse by QAnon conspiracy theorists who accused her of pedophilia and eating children, as reported by Insider's Rachel E. Greenspan.
However, many users have also shared messages of support with Teigen and are writing about their own experiences with pregnancy loss.
Teigen and Beckinsale aren't the only celebrities who have spoken about losing a pregnancy.
In a 2013 interview with Oprah, Beyoncé shared that she miscarried before giving birth to her first child, daughter Blue Ivy.
"Having miscarriages taught me that I had to mother myself before I could be a mother to someone else," she told Elle in 2019.
In 2019, "Pretty Little Liars" actor Shay Mitchell told fans on Instagram that she suffered a miscarriage in 2018 prior to giving birth to daughter Atlas Noa.
"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," Mitchell wrote on Instagram.
Former first lady Michelle Obama shared that she suffered a miscarriage before giving birth to daughters Malia and Sasha in a 2018 interview with ABC News.
Representatives for Kate Beckinsale and Chrissy Teigen, respectively, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.