{"id":3183,"date":"2023-03-27T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2023-09-21T18:44:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:44:01","slug":"james-van-der-beek-emotionally-describes-wifes-miscarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2023\/03\/james-van-der-beek-emotionally-describes-wifes-miscarriage.html","title":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek Emotionally Describes Wife’s Miscarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Van Der Beek, best known for his role in the 90s television series \u201cDawson\u2019s Creek,\u201d recently discussed his wife\u2019s 2019 miscarriage and the emotional toll the heartbreak took on them. He openly talked about the experience on the \u201cBathroom Chronicles\u201d podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n

Van Der Beek was competing on \u201cDancing With The Stars\u201d when his wife, Kimberly, had the miscarriage. He recalled that she was 17 and a half weeks pregnant, and something just felt \u201coff.\u201d He continued, \u201cIt was just so much pain, and it was so unexpected because everything was right. Everything was a fairy tale. Everything was coming together perfectly. It progressed very quickly into being worried about Kim. We were both just crying and sobbing, and there was a lot of blood, way more blood than any delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Der Beek remembered his wife lying in the shower and not waking up, which was when he called 911. He decided to stay home with the couple\u2019s five other children while Kimberly was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Van Der Beek said on the podcast, talking to his wife, \u201cYou were gone. The ambulance had taken you away. I got Gwen back to bed. And I\u2019m just sitting there in a bathroom full of blood. It was just a gut punch, an emotional gut punch.\u201d The following week, the actor, 46, revealed on\u00a0DWTS<\/em>\u00a0that Kimberly had lost their then-sixth baby on the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife Kimberly and I went through every expecting parent\u2019s worst nightmare. We lost the baby,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cThe little soul that we had expected to welcome into our family took a shortcut to whatever lies beyond.\u201d However, despite the gut-wrenching tragedy he and his wife endured, Van Der Beek finished the \u201cDWTS\u201d competition at Kimberly\u2019s insistence.<\/p>\n

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