Eve shares her experience of losing an ectopic pregnancy in 2006 and how she was in denial about it.
In her upcoming memoir ‘Who’s That Girl?’, the Queens star describes the tubal pregnancy loss she suffered in 2006. She explains the physical and emotional stress she suffered at the time.
While shooting for her sitcom, she had to undergo a surgical operation after suffering from a tubal pregnancy in which the fetal sac had ruptured in the fallopian tube. She even told her co-workers that she was having ‘appendicitis’ at the time, hiding the fact that she actually had an operation due to an ectopic pregnancy. The operation required her to rest for two weeks, but she admitted that that much time was insufficient to recover physically or mentally.
Eve reflects on her refusal and explains why she wanted to take such a step. “I don’t know why I lied to everyone on the set and said my appendix had burst, really. Maybe because I was lying to myself,” the tambourine singer writes in her book.
She adds, “If I had to face losing my baby, I didn’t know if two weeks would be enough time to heal emotionally. In the end, it was barely enough time for me to heal physically before returning to work on set.”
For so many years, she couldn’t find so-called closure for this loss, because she didn’t know how to deal with it. Eventually, she came to understand that she had to accept that the baby was real and allow herself to accept that losing the baby wasn’t her fault.
The Barbershop star later learned that the ectopic pregnancy was caused by some endometriosis and specifically fibroids, which she was not told about at the time. What her doctor didn’t tell her was that one of her fallopian tubes had a thin structure and was infiltrated by endometriosis, increasing the risk of the pregnancy breaking.
She says something in her book that speaks volumes about the appalling state of women’s reproductive health research. “At that time, it was completely taboo to even discuss things like endometriosis. People hardly knew what it was. And it’s better to have this kind of procedure done at a young age, because it gets harder as you get older,” she writes.
Her son Wilde Wolf was born in 2022, making her a mother after a long IVF journey. Now, she enjoys every aspect of being a mother, enjoying every moment with her son.
Eve’s memoir, titled Who’s That Girl, is set to be published on September 17.
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