Before welcoming her two sons, Julia Louis-Dreyfus experienced an “emotionally devastating” miscarriage.
The loss took place “quite late in” the “Veep” alum’s first pregnancy at age 28, she recalled on Tuesday’s episode of her “Wiser Than Me” podcast.
The actress was “crazy happy” before the miscarriage, noting that she felt “very fertile [and] very womanly” when she and husband Brad Hall got pregnant “easily.”
Not only was the loss itself a “complete nightmare,” but Louis-Dreyfus had to be hospitalized when she developed an infection.
The comedian, 62, was “bedridden” when she returned home, and her mother, Judith Bowles, subsequently flew out to take care of her.
Although Louis-Dreyfus wasn’t allowed to eat the “cozy chili” her mom made, “the making of it was so comforting and so embracing” that the meal remains one of her “greatest memories.”
The “Seinfeld” alum was 31 when she and Hall, 65, welcomed their eldest son, Henry, now 30, in 1992. 25-year-old Charlie was born five years later.
The latter has followed in his mom’s acting footsteps, most recently playing a character named Andrew in Season 2 of “Sex Lives of College Girls.”
Louis-Dreyfus hilariously reacted to her son’s “very racy” scenes in January after watching the HBO series.
“He was f–king some girl in the library and I thought it was dynamite,” the Emmy winner said, calling the actor “great” and “adorable.”
Charlie graduated from Northwestern University prior to the role. Henry, for his part, attended Wesleyan University.
Louis-Dreyfus and Hall, who are now empty nesters, have been married since June 1987.
The Golden Globe winner told Craig Ferguson in 2013 that she “knew almost immediately” that the filmmaker was The One when they met.
