Carrie Underwood Is Opening Up About How She Coped With Her 3 Miscarriages Before This Pregnancy

Carrie Underwood is speaking out about her history of miscarriages. In a new interview with CBS News, the singer says that she had three miscarriages over a span of two years — between 2017 and 2018 — and reveals that her process of coping with them influenced quite a few of the songs on her new album, Cry Pretty.

"I'd kind of planned that 2017 was, you know, going to be the year that I work on new music, and I have a baby. We got pregnant early 2017, and didn't work out," Underwood said in the interview. "…And that was the thing, in the beginning it was like, 'Okay, God, we know this is, just wasn't your timing. And that is all right. We will bounce back and figure our way through it.' And got pregnant again in the spring, and it didn't work out. Got pregnant again, early 2018. Didn't work out. So, at that point, it was just kind of like, 'Okay, like, what's the deal? What is all of this?'"

In an attempt to cope, Underwood says she threw herself into her work and dealt with her emotions behind closed doors — an experience she sings about on Cry Pretty's title track. "Throughout the whole process, you know, I'm writing and, like, literally right after finding out that I would lose a baby, I'd have a writing session, I'd be like, 'Let's go. You know, I can't just sit around thinking about this. Like, I wanna work, I wanna do this,'" she said. "Cause I would literally have these horrible things going on in my life, and then have to go smile and, like, do some interviews or, like, do a photo shoot or something, you know? So it was just kind of, like, therapeutic, I guess."

"I feel like there's a lot of songs, there's several songs on the album that came from that, you know, or I connect with in a totally different way because of those experiences that we went through," she added later in the interview. "And they were hard. And it sucked so much! But things are looking better."

In August, Underwood revealed in a video posted to her Twitter account that she was happily pregnant with her second child. Speaking to CBS, the singer says she discovered her pregnancy after making a doctor's appointment to "confirm another miscarriage," connecting the news to a spiritual experience she had.

"I was like, 'Why on Earth do I keep getting pregnant if I can't have a kid? Like, what is this? Shut the door. Like, do something. Either shut the door or let me have a kid,'" she said. "And for the first time, I feel like I actually I told God how I felt. And I feel like we're supposed to do that. And I was like, 'You heard me,'" she added. "Not that He hasn't in the past. But maybe, I don't know, He heard me."

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