Annika Noelle, who plays Hope Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful has started to open up more about losing a child. She wanted to tell her story to her fans and her fans were shocked to hear what she had to say. She shared her experience in Glamour magazine and she shared tidbits about it on her Instagram account.
With more and more celebrities coming out about losing children, it seemed that Annika was ready to write her own story and to share it with others.
The Bold and The Beautiful: Annika Noelle Opens Up About Loss
It was a treat for Annika to write her story for the magazine and to just share her feelings and in her own words. She began her story with, “The ultrasound technician looked down on me with both gentleness and the steely resolve of someone who has had to deliver bad news far too often: “I’m sorry, there doesn’t seem to be a heartbeat.” And just like that, I had lost my second child in a matter of months. The nature of a soap opera can be a grueling one. With a continuous narrative, the cast and crew work year-round producing more than 200 episodes annually. In a single day, a show may film up to four episodes while ideally getting it all in only one take. Meanwhile, it is being broadcasted to millions of homes worldwide. They say if you can handle this format, you can handle anything. And I believe it because I had just come off an eight-month-long baby loss storyline that felt like I had run a marathon.”
She went on, “At the time I had never experienced a pregnancy before. I was grateful for the artistic challenge and threw myself into the story with everything I had, researching placental abruption, stillbirth, and pregnancy loss. I knew people in my own life who had gone through the trauma of losing a child, and I wanted to do them justice. It had to be honest. It had to be real. But what it entailed was months and months of grief on camera that slowly started to seep into my life off-camera. As a woman, I never imagined having a child to be a difficult feat. From a young age, we are told how easy it is to get pregnant, even with a condom, while on birth control, and pulling out—don’t forget about the precum! I took the responsibility of it seriously and had been so careful for so many years of my life. I never thought that when I actually wanted it to happen, it wouldn’t.”
With her sharing, she ended up posting on Instagram thanking her fans and friends. She wrote, “I am so grateful to @glamourmag for the opportunity to share my story and my writing with the world for the first time ever. What started as a therapeutic piece for myself soon evolved into more. While I normally try to keep my personal life private, I decided to share my story with the hope that it might help at least one woman feel a little less alone. We are brave, we are resilient, we are strength embodied. Thank you to @annamoeslein for believing in this piece and publishing it.”
You can read her story on Glamour and check out her story on Instagram.
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