Laura Prepon is opening up about extremely personal experiences in her upcoming book, You & I As Mothers. In a new interview with People, the 40-year-old actress shares that she had to terminate her second pregnancy in 2018, which she discusses in the book.
Prepon says she got pregnant in 2018 after she and her husband, Ben Foster,welcomed their daughter, Ella, in 2017. But their sonogram at 16 weeks revealed heartbreaking news — a condition called cystic hygroma, a congenital malformation of the lymphatic system. “Our neonatal specialist told us the brain was not growing and the bones were not growing,” she says. “We were told the pregnancy would not go to full term and that my body was at risk carrying any longer.” “Ben held me as I