Julia Louis-Dreyfus details ‘devastating’ miscarriage that she suffered ‘late in pregnancy’ at 28

Julia Louis-Dreyfus revealed that she suffered a devastating miscarriage at the age of 28, just two years after marrying her longtime husband in Brad Hall in 1987.

As I reflect on the loss during an episode of her Wiser than me podcast, the 62-year-old Seinfeld star opened up about the harrowing experience.

“When I was about 28 I got pregnant for the first time and I was over the moon,” she told her listeners. “I got pregnant quickly. I felt very fertile, very feminine. And then, quite late in the pregnancy, my husband Brad and I discovered that this little fetus wouldn’t survive.”

She went on to explain that the situation became a “complete nightmare” after she had to be hospitalized for “a few” days due to an infection.

“I finally got out of the hospital and came home to recover, but I wasn’t allowed to get out of bed yet. I was, as they say, bedridden,” she revealed.

A nightmare: While reflecting on the loss during an episode of her Wiser Than Me podcast, the 62-year-old Seinfeld star opened up about the harrowing experience (pictured in 2000)

Her mother, Judith Bowles, flew in to assist and lend a hand through the recovery process.

“She made this incredibly cozy chili in a cast-iron skillet with cornbread on top,” said Louis-Dreyfus. “She and my husband Brad set up a little card table at the foot of the bed. And the smell of that cornbread and chili was so delicious.”

Although she couldn’t eat solid food at first, the mother-of-two described the smell as one of her “best memories.”

‘It didn’t matter. It was the best meal ever, and I didn’t even eat it. Making it was so comforting and so embracing,” she explained.

In 1992, Louis-Dreyfus and Hall welcomed their first child, Henry, now 30, and their second son, Charlie, 25, five years later.

Charlie has followed in his mother’s footsteps since graduating from Northwestern University, most recently appearing in TV series such as The Sex Lives of College Girls and Single Drunk Female.

The Veep actress previously admitted to having “a lot of anxiety about being a mother who works outside the home” and her fear of “missing out on things.”

“I was supposed to be with them and I wasn’t. I’d had a kid’s room on the set in Seinfeld, and I’d take both boys – which was worse in some ways, because then you’re so divided! I raced between the stage and the nursery, breastfeeding and everything,” she previously shared The New Yorkers in 2018.

“When I was about 28 I got pregnant for the first time and I was over the moon,” she told her listeners. “I got pregnant quickly. I felt very fertile, very feminine. And then, quite late in the pregnancy, my husband Brad and I found out that this little fetus wouldn’t live’ (seen 2020)

That same year, she looked back on the “glorious undertaking” of watching her children grow up.

“Even when they’re born — I remember thinking, oh, God, I miss that movement in my body. And from then on, that story continues: they creep away from you,” she said.

Louis-Dreyfus concluded: ‘They go to school. It’s a constant. Divorce has been a theme in my life, something I’ve really struggled with.”

Over the years, she’s credited the key to her long marriage to the fact that they were “on the same wavelength about how” they wanted to raise their kids and “always trying new things together.”

Louis-Dreyfus and her husband met as college students at Northwestern University through the comedy troupe he founded, called The Practical Theater.

In 2013, she told Craig Ferguson that she “knew almost immediately” that Hall was her soul mate.