The ‘horrifying’ TRUE story that spawned American Horror Story: Delicate: Author whose book inspired Kim Kardashian and Emma Roberts’ VERY sinister series reveals the ‘devastating’ REAL-LIFE tragedy behind the show

Danielle Valentine knows how to scare her readers.

The young adult fiction writer has covered it all from gruesome murders to paranormal ghosts and chilling exorcisms since the publication of her first book in 2012.

But for her pulse-pounding 2023 thriller, “Delicate Condition,” Valentine was inspired to write about something more personal and far more terrifying: pregnancy loss.

The author was seven months pregnant with her daughter Harriet (who is now four years old) when she started having her own ‘painful’ and ‘horrific’ in 2018 – an experience that left her in the emergency room for hours without knowing what. happened to her own body.

The chilling novel serves as the basis for the twelfth season of American Horror Story, subtitled Delicate, and starring Emma Roberts And Kim Kardashian.

The book, available now, highlights the nightmarish stories many women experience during IVF and complicated pregnancies.

Season 12 of American Horror Story on FX follows a young actress named Anna Alcott (played by Emma Roberts) who is happy to finally be pregnant after multiple rounds of IVF. She soon suspects that an evil force is preventing her from becoming pregnant

Season 12 sees Kim Kardashian, 43, return as Anna Alcott’s (Emma Roberts) scheming and suspicious publicist

Despite having an uncomplicated pregnancy, Valentine was shocked to learn of her pregnancy loss; an experience she said was like “being in a horror novel.”

“I ended up going to the emergency room for hours,” she recalls. “If they knew what was going on, they didn’t tell me, and that was shocking to me.”

Valentine said she has seen a significant “bubble” in book sales since American Horror Story premiered. The chilling novel highlights the horror stories many women experience during IVF and complicated pregnancies

The author (who also goes by the pseudonyms Danielle Rollins, Danielle Vega and Ellie Rollins) was also impressed with how “textbook” the miscarriage was. It was “just the way you read and hear about these things happening,” she said.

And yet Valentine was completely in the dark and remembered: “There was a complete two-day break where I didn’t really know what was happening in my own body.”

“The most you hear about miscarriage is how common it is, but you don’t hear nearly as much about how horrific it is.”

“It was almost as if saying it was common or saying it happens a lot should somehow insulate people from the horror of it.”

“It was unimaginably painful,” she told DailyMail.com. “It was devastating, unimaginable.”

However, Valentine revealed that writing about her own experiences in the form of a thriller was a therapeutic exercise for her.

The first draft “began with me writing myself into this story in a kind of cathartic way,” she explained.

She revealed to Shondaland that the book was also partially inspired by the 1979 film “Alien.”

“It’s kind of ironic that a bunch of guys tried to come up with the scariest thing they could think of, and what they came up with was the idea that there might be something growing in your body that you have no control over. that does these things to you, and will eventually burst out of you,” she said.

In the aftermath of the traumatic miscarriage, Alcott (played by Emma Roberts) suspects she is still pregnant, even as her husband and doctors continue to push her to think otherwise.

Valentine told DailyMail.com that “most of what you hear about miscarriage is about how common it is, but you don’t hear nearly as much about how horrific it is.”

Speaking about her own experience with pregnancy loss that resulted in an “hour-long” emergency room visit, Valentine recalls feeling completely in the dark about the situation. “There was a complete two-day break where I didn’t really know what was happening in my own body.”

“They actually just wrote a story about pregnancy.”

Delicate Condition follows 39-year-old actress Anna Alcott (played by Roberts) who is thrilled to finally be pregnant after multiple rounds of IVF, before doctors announce she has suffered another miscarriage.

The novel focuses on the actress’s struggle to balance her rising star power and her arduous IVF journey.

At the same time, the character begins to suspect that an evil force is preventing her from successfully becoming pregnant.

In the aftermath of the traumatic miscarriage, Anna suspects she is still pregnant, even though her husband and doctors continue to convince her otherwise.

The story delves into the realm of the supernatural, but it’s the real-life horrors that resonate most powerfully.

Valentine says the harrowing miscarriage scene was “pulled back quite a bit” from previous drafts, which at one point had the sequence stretched over 20 pages.

Delicate Condition wasn’t Valentine’s first book option, but it is her first book to become such a big show.

“When they told me it was Ryan Murphy (director and producer), it was an incredible dream come true.”

Although the author had no input on season 12 of American Horror Story, she says, “It was so fun to watch, I’ve been a total fangirl the whole time.”