Lea Michele Reveals She Had ‘Back-to-Back’ Miscarriages Before Conceiving Baby No. 2

Lea Michele is currently pregnant with her second child with her husband, Zandy Reich, and she recently opened up about how the road to her pregnancy wasn’t an easy one.

The Funny Girl actress recently appeared on Katherine Schwarzenegger’s podcast BDA Baby, where she shared that the process of conception was “completely not what [they] expected” and that she had “two back-to-back very early failed pregnancies.”

She continued, “I had never had a miscarriage before. The first one, I was like, ‘That was weird.’ When it happened again right away, I was like, ‘Wait a second. Something is wrong.'”

Michele then explained that she and her husband stopped trying to conceive while she was starring in Funny Girl on Broadway. “It wasn’t until a little bit later [that] I had another [loss]. I was working at the time. It was super challenging to…process what we were experiencing at the same time, which was very painful,” she shared, before noting that she ultimately received an endometriosis diagnosis. She took “so many drugs and medications and [got] one thousand shots,” and ultimately got pregnant.

The Glee actress revealed that she is pregnant back in March with a sweet Instagram post. In the pictures, Michele — who is already Mom to 3-year-old son Ever Leo — posed with a silky white shawl draped over her shoulders, cradling her baby bump as it peeks through the fabric.

“Mommy, Daddy and Ever are overjoyed,” she captioned the post. Michele and Reich tied the knot in 2019. The couple became first-time parents the next year, welcoming Ever in August 2020.