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9:55 pm - 01/25/2013

Beyonce calls surrogacy rumors "stupid"


Wow. When she gets personal, she goes all out.

Beyonce's HBO documentary Life is But a Dream delves into her marriage to rapper Jay-Z (including a sweet scene in Venice, which has them singing the song Yellow by Coldplay).

Lucky reporters got an advance copy of the film. And it was worth the wait. Seeing Beyonce, who normally never delves into her personal life, discussing her husband -- priceless.

"It's every woman's dream to feel this way about someone," Beyonce says about her husband during a vacation in Venice.

And yes, she shows her sonogram on screen.

But Beyonce, so private about her marriage and her life in general, goes much further. She shares footage of her trip to Paris with her nephew. She talks about wanting to "make love" to her husband. She explains why she decided to share her pregnancy news so visibly at the MTV awards.

Most notably: She opens up about her miscarriage two years ago, saying that one week she heard a heartbeat – and the next, nothing. And she talks about how devastating the loss was to her and how she retreated to the studio to deal with it.

Most movingly, she addresses stories that she used a surrogate to carry daughter Blue Ivy, now 1.

"There's a stupid rumor. The most ridiculous rumor I think I've ever had about me. It's crazy. To think I would be that vain – I respect mothers and women so much and to be able to experience bringing a child into this world, if you're lucky and fortunate enough to experience that, I would never, ever take that for granted. It's the most powerful thing you can do. Especially after losing a child, the pain and trauma from that just makes it mean so much more to get an opportunity to bring life into the world. It seems like people should have boundaries," says a visibly shaken Beyonce.

You see her with Blue, just being a mom, and with Jay-Z, being a wife. Overall, it's a savvy and just-personal-enough glimpse into the life of someone who generally reveals nothing of herself to the press.

By the way, as her "did she or didn't she" inaugural controversy rages on, anyone who doubts Beyonce can sing should watch this film. The lady is majorly, seriously gifted.

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/01/25/beyonce-documentary-miscarriage/1865749/
empirebird 26th-Jan-2013 04:16 am (UTC)
Awwwww... miscarriages are fucking awful and traumatizing. My sister had one and she was legit in fear of losing another baby and the stress was immense.

Poor thing.
bent_ley 26th-Jan-2013 04:34 am (UTC)
my bf's sister lost her baby at 8 months and um it was the most sad thing ive ever witnessed. it just happened last feb
xeroxicide__ 26th-Jan-2013 05:17 am (UTC)
Omg I didn't even know miscarriages happened that late (uneducated on the topic). That's terribly sad and scary.
wauwy 26th-Jan-2013 06:14 am (UTC)
My aunt, who really wanted children, had THREE miscarriages. After the third one, though, my uncle came into the examining room with my baby cousin (whom they had just adopted a few months ago) and put her on the table and said "It's a girl!"

They later adopted another girl, too. So it all worked out in the end. But I still feel so bad she had to go through that.
celtic_thistle 26th-Jan-2013 06:23 am (UTC)
I had one in December...it was pretty early but it was the most sickening, helpless, rage-inducing feeling. :/ It's tough. I hope your sister was able/will be able to have a healthy bb.
silly_izzy_me 26th-Jan-2013 07:18 am (UTC)
I'm very sorry.
empirebird 26th-Jan-2013 08:22 am (UTC)
I'm sorry to hear that :(

And she had two after, a girl then a boy :)
kwikimart 26th-Jan-2013 01:46 pm (UTC)
Oh no.
I'm sorry.
I hope you get through this okay <3
greatestheroine 26th-Jan-2013 02:25 pm (UTC)
I am so sorry to hear that

Huuug <3
massielita 26th-Jan-2013 07:39 pm (UTC)
I'm sorry to hear this :(
super_bik 26th-Jan-2013 07:37 am (UTC)
They are seriously the worst.

My sister-in-law had three miscarriages before she had my nephew (one at 6 months) and she and my brother were completely stressed/terrified the entire pregnancy.
finchandreese 26th-Jan-2013 08:20 am (UTC)
That's sad - yet when you relate to Beyonce it does make you wonder why she worked so hard during those first critical months of pregnancy...Glastonbury for example.
empirebird 26th-Jan-2013 08:24 am (UTC)
Not really. Just because you had a miscarriage doesn't you'll be weak during other pregnancies and unable to do things. In fact, most women have miscarriages actually, it's just not something spoken about.
cageyb 26th-Jan-2013 09:14 pm (UTC)
My friend's boss *kept* having miscarriages. I think she tried 3 or 4 times. She really wanted a baby and she was so depressed for the longest time. She finally was able to have one though, so it worked out but I couldn't imagine trying that many times and losing that many potential children.
myroomiswhite88 27th-Jan-2013 05:45 am (UTC)
My friends mom had several miscarriage and even though she got to have two kids she went completely nuts. Went from being a doctor to a shut in who snaps every now and then
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