Actress Sharon Stone has expressed her belief that women facing reproductive losses still lack sufficient support and understanding. The 64-year-old actress commented on an Instagram post by Peta Murgatroyd, the wife of renowned Ukrainian choreographer Maks Chmerkovskiy, who shared her experience of a miscarriage. Stone, who is raising three adopted sons, revealed that she herself has lost nine children due to miscarriages and lamented the lack of serious platforms on social media to discuss the depth of such tragedies.
“This is not a minor thing, either physically or emotionally, but we are made to feel that it’s something to be endured alone and in secret, with a sense of failure,” Stone admitted.
The actress emphasized that women who experience reproductive losses need compassion, sympathy, and healing, which are crucial for their well-being.
“Women’s health and well-being, left to the care of male ideology, have become, at best, weak, genuinely ignorant, and cruelly oppressive in their efforts,” she wrote.
Stone, who is raising 16-year-old Quinn, 17-year-old Laird, and 22-year-old Roan, highlighted that women should receive the support they need during such difficult times.
In an exclusive interview with People, Peta Murgatroyd, 35, talked about her recent miscarriage. She recalled that shortly before the miscarriage, she tested positive for COVID-19, which led to a rapid decline in her health and the subsequent loss of the pregnancy. “I was so weak. I couldn’t open the dishwasher. I couldn’t open the fridge to feed (her 5-year-old son) Shai or make him toast,” the dancer shared.
Murgatroyd was unaware of her pregnancy until she was taken to the hospital by ambulance after collapsing in her son’s room. She called her husband, who was thousands of miles away in Ukraine, and put the call on speakerphone so the doctor could deliver the sad news.
Additionally, it was reported that Sharon Stone appeared at the Cannes Film Festival in a blue suit, the color of the Ukrainian flag, to show her solidarity with the tragic events occurring in Ukraine due to the war instigated by Russia.
