Megan Gale Opens Up About Her Heartbreaking Miscarriage

‘I’m so sorry, it’s gone'

January 17 2017

Chatting to @instylemag about: The topic of miscarriage. While I think we should definitely respect peoples privacy when it comes to conception, regarding miscarriage it's a tricky area. I feel ok talking about it now, 7 months later, especially if it helps raise awareness about certain issues but how do we deal with it whilst we're going through it?
Chatting to @instylemag about: The topic of miscarriage. While I think we should definitely respect peoples privacy when it comes to conception, regarding miscarriage it's a tricky area. I feel ok talking about it now, 7 months later, especially if it helps raise awareness about certain issues but how do we deal with it whilst we're going through it?

"I fell pregnant immediately," she wrote. "As my obstetrician said at the time, this is a blessing and a good sign for the future should we choose to try again."

 

Megan Gale also opened up about what it's like to work as a model, and why she chose to be a mum.

 

“I’m a bit of a nerd in that I just love to be professional and do the best job that I can. But I thought, ‘It’s worth it at the end of it because I’m going to have this baby,’” she tells InStyle.

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Not sure how I feel about you hogging all my orange, carrot & ginger juice buddy 😡 You little 🐷 Deliciously healthy breakfast at @heritage_hotels 👌🏼 @purenewzealand @queenstownnz #kiaoraheritagenz #queenstownlive

After a reassuring six-week scan, Gale scheduled her next obstetric appointment to fall just before she jetted to Milan with the final fourTop Model contestants to film the semi-final episode. But, she says, as the weeks progressed, something didn’t feel right.



“I can’t put my finger on it—there was no physical change or a sign or symptom…[I wondered] if I was being overprotective and paranoid, or if something was wrong.” She recalls feeling “nervous and horrible” on the morning of her next scan, but “I just wanted to go and see that bub was okay.” She remembers, “I hopped up on the table and [my obstetrician] put the ultrasound on my tummy. He just kept moving it and not saying anything and I started to feel sick.” After also completing an internal ultrasound, her specialist broke the news. “He was quiet, and then he just said, ‘I’m so sorry, it’s gone.’ ”

 

What followed was a harrowing sequence of events: an in-hospital procedure in Melbourne, before a rushed trip to Sydney, and then the long journey to Milan. "There was a risk of it getting out and spreading like wildfire, and I wasn’t prepared to deal with everyone knowing,” she says.

 

“Anything surrounding your conception as a woman, as a couple, is extremely intimate, and it needs to be handled delicately…I feel absolutely passionate about it—especially now with what we’ve gone through—because I’d always get asked ‘When are you going to have a baby?’ And when I’d had River, ‘When are you going to have another baby?’ I lose count how many times a week—whether it’s in an interview, whether it’s friends, family, someone at the supermarket I don’t know… it happens [to women] everywhere. It’s such a personal question, and what makes it that much harder to answer is when you’ve been through some kind of hurdle with conception.” 

 

This article originally appeared on InStyle .