How My Miscarriage Changed My Next Pregnancy

Mixed emotions: Women may find themselves dealing with grief and joy simultaneously when a successful pregnancy follows a miscarriage. (Image by Corbis)

A blood clot no bigger than a pea permanently changed my life. I was six, maybe seven, weeks pregnant and, by all accounts, the perfect candidate for an uncomplicated pregnancy. I was 24 years old, an avid exerciser at a healthy weight. No woman in my family had ever lost a baby.

But when I saw that speck of blood — a bright red alarm against the white of my toilet paper — I knew I was losing our first child. 

Napoleon Dynamite Stars Then and Now: See What the Cast Looks Like 10 Years Later!

Gosh! It’s been 10 years since Napoleon, Pedro, and Kip created the cult classic film Napoleon Dynamite, and though the gang (and Tina the llama) still live on in our hearts, their offscreen counterparts look totally different these days. 

Check out the core cast then and now:

Jon Heder (Napoleon)

Robin Wright and Ben Foster Split, Call Off 10-Month Engagement -- Find Out What Went Wrong

It's over! Robin Wright has called it quits with her fiancé of 10 months Ben Foster, multiple sources tell Us Weekly exclusively in this week's issue.

"She got swept up in the engagement last Christmas, but then their schedules got crazy and she realized it wasn't the right decision," an insider tells Us of why the House of Cards actress, 48, called it quits with her beau. 

This past summer, the source adds, was the breaking point for the actress, who was juggling working on the Netflix hit in Baltimore and then spending weekends in Los Angeles with her and ex-husband Sean Penn's kids Dylan, 23, and Hopper Jack, 21. Meanwhile, Foster, 34, was busy in London with a production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Mark Wahlberg's 60-Pound Weight Loss For The Gambler: My Lips Turned Blue, I Stopped Eating

Following in the footsteps of Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, and Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Wahlberg threw his health out the window and lost a shocking amount of weight for his role in the upcoming thriller The Gambler. At the AFI Fest premiere of the film in Hollywood on Monday, Nov. 10, the two-time Oscar nominee opened up about his decision to drop 60 pounds to play college professor and high-stakes gambler Jim Bennett. The fictional story, based on the 1974 film of the same name, required Wahlberg to be “as thin as possible,” according to director Rupert Wyatt.

“I went from 197 to — the lightest I’d ever been in a movie was in Boogie Nights, I was 138 — so I wanted to beat that,” the 5’8” star said at a post-screening discussion. “I beat it by a pound, so 137. I was losing weight while we were shooting the movie too so continuity kind of went out of the window.”

“No energy, no nutrition, and the studio, there was a complaint about that, that my lips were always looking blue,” Wahlberg said. “What the f—k do you want me to do? I haven’t eaten anything! If you make them red, I’m going to look weird, like I’ve got lipstick on, so it is what it is.”

The Lone Survivor star, who had recently bulked back up for his role in Transformers: Age of Extinction, had four months to drop the pounds, which he continued to do throughout filming. 

Laverne Cox Weighs In on Teresa Giudice's 15-Month Sentence in the Orange Is the New Black Prison

OITNB meets RHONJ. Laverne Cox weighed in on Teresa Giudice's looming prison sentence while speaking to reporters at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards on Monday, Nov. 10, in NYC.

The actress, 30, who's best known for her portrayal of Sophia Burset on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black, was asked by reporters whether she had any advice for Giudice, who will report to the Danbury, Connecticut prison camp come January.