Yahoo Lifestyle Nick Viall's Wife Reveals 'Heartbreaking' Family Update During Podcast Recording
Nick Viall's wife, Natalie Joy, is opening up about the loss of the couple's second child.
The surgical technologist, who already shares 11-month-old daughter River Rose with the former Bachelor star, recently suffered a miscarriage while pregnant with their second baby. The couple used their podcast, The Viall Files, to share the "traumatic" and "personal" situation with their fans.
The two gathered together in their podcast studio without the other members of their team who are usually present, acknowledging that there's "no right way" to handle the story.
Joy quickly broke down in tears as she described how hard it's been for her to continue going about life as normal, putting on a happy face for her toddler and continuing to record the podcast, for example, even though she was "actively miscarrying" while filming.
The 26-year-old was “spot bleeding for a while” with this pregnancy, something she didn't experience the first time around. Though spotting can be normal, she felt like she knew what was happening "from the jump."
Sadly, it got "heavier and heavier."
“Just experiencing that is something I wouldn’t wish upon anyone," she said candidly. "I just feel for these people so much because I was so mad at my body for letting it go,” calling it "the biggest heartbreak...of my life."
Joy also looked back on "feel[ing] sad" and wanting to "be there" for her friends and family members who have suffered miscarriages in the past, "but you don't really know the loss that they feel until you go through it yourself."
Viall admitted that it was "a little different" for him, seeing as his wife was the one actually carrying, feeling, and hearing the baby, but they both knew it would "take a long time to heal."
Joy expressed fear that as time goes on she might "forget" about the baby. “I feel dead inside," she described, apologizing to her husband for not being able to be strong in front of him the way she is in front of their daughter. "I have this overwhelming guilt...I’m sad that the only version you get right now is this broken person,” she said.
She expressed gratitude for Viall's support, noting, “It was the worst experience I’ve been through but you made it as easy as it could have been to go through."
“You did everything right, which I feel is impossible to do in those situations," she told him. "Yet, you managed and you still continue to.”
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