Carrie Underwood discusses heartbreak of having three miscarriages in two years

‘Why on earth do I keep getting pregnant if I can’t have a kid?’

Carrie Underwood has discussed the heartbreak she felt when she experienced three miscarriages in two years, believing at one point that she may never have any more children.

The country singer, who rose to fame in 2005 as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol, has a three-year-old son with her husband, former professional ice hockey player Mike Fisher.

Over the past couple of years, the couple have been trying to conceive a second child.

However, in that time Underwood has had to cope with the distress of three miscarriages, as she explained on CBS News.

The singer revealed to Tracy Smith that she’d become pregnant twice in 2017 and at the beginning of 2018, with each pregnancy resulting in a miscarriage.

She used her work as a coping mechanism, throwing herself into writing sessions and keeping herself occupied.

“I can’t just sit around thinking about this, like, I want to work,” Underwood said with regards to her motivation to carry on working at the time.

“I want to do this, because I would literally have these horrible things going on in my life and then have to go smile and like, do some interviews or l like do a photo shoot or something.”

Underwood, who is a devout Christian, was reluctant to express her anger over the miscarriages, as she felt she had much in her life to be grateful for despite her misfortune.

“I had always been afraid to be angry. Because we are so blessed, and my son, Isaiah, is the sweetest thing, he’s the best thing in the world,” she said.

“I’m like if we can never have any other kids, that’s okay, because [Isaiah’s] amazing and I have this amazing life. Like really, what can I complain about? I can’t.”

After becoming pregnant again in 2018, Underwood was sure that she was experiencing another miscarriage.

While praying, she questioned why she’d been able to become pregnant so many times if she couldn’t have another baby.

“Why on earth do I keep getting pregnant if I can’t have a kid? Like what is this?” she asked.

“Shut the door. Do something. Either shut the door or let me have a kid.”

After seeing a doctor shortly afterwards, Underwood discovered that she wasn’t having another miscarriage and is now expecting her second child with Fisher.

Dawson’s Creek actor James Van Der Beek has recently spoken about the miscarriages that his wife suffered and the impact that they had on the couple.

In a caption posted on Instagram, Van Der Beek called for the term “miscarriage” to be renamed, as he says it suggests that the mother is at fault for failing to “carry” a baby.