Teri Hatcher revealed she suffered a miscarriage in her 40s while trying to have a second child.
While guest-hosting E!’s “Daily Pop” Thursday, the former “Desperate Housewives” star, now 57, said she had used a sperm donor at the time, but the method “didn’t work out” for her.
“I tried to have a second child by myself, and I went through that, got a sperm donor. I actually had a miscarriage, unfortunately,” she said.
Despite her pregnancy’s turn of events, Hatcher acknowledged that the process of using a sperm donor can be “fun.”
“Because you pick out literally, ‘Do they wear glasses? Did they have acne? How tall?'” she explained. “It’s very interesting when you think about it that way.”
Hatcher shares 24-year-old daughter Emerson with her ex-husband Jon Tenney, whom she divorced in 2003 after nearly nine years of marriage.
In 2019, the “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” alum shared with People that she was happy after being single for an extended period of time.
“There is a difference between being lonely and being alone,” the actress said at the time. “I have been single for a very long time, but there is nothing lonely about my life. I want to remove the stigma of that.”
Hatcher said it “doesn’t have to be depressing” to hear about women who don’t remarry after divorce.
“Many women are not just surviving alone, they’re thriving. They’re empowered, they’re making money, they’re being healthy, they’re traveling,” she continued. “You are allowed to be proud of your life when you’re not part of a couple.”