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“It’s a psychological burden”Nilam Farooq suffered a miscarriage during filming – she is stunned by the production's reaction
Actress Nilam Farooq
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This moment still leaves her speechless.
Actress Nilam Farooq (36) prefers to keep her family life private. Only a few weeks ago she more or less involuntarily made her new pregnancy public. It is all the more surprising that the actress is now talking about a very intimate topic. Namely about a previous miscarriage.
Nilam Farooq is pregnant for the fourth time, but: “No, I don’t have four children”
“This is my fourth pregnancy”Nilam Farooq recently explained in a very personal Instagram video. She has kept the pregnancies completely private until now – and she would have liked to keep the current baby news to herself. But there are baby bump photos of her that are available to “certain media”.
In the “Sounds Familiar” podcast with midwife Sissi Rasche, the actress now says that that doesn’t mean that she also has four children. “No, I don’t have four children,” she clarifies. The two women then talk about the topic of miscarriage. And the fact that women are hardly given time and space to recover after such an experience. Both physically and mentally. “It's a psychological burden, it's so blatant because it's a death. It's a loss, it's heartbreak, it's giving up a lot of ideas that you had.”the “Contra” star explains the emotional state of a miscarriage.
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Miscarriage during filming
When Nilam Farooq lost her child, she was in the middle of a production: “The miscarriage I had, I was filming at the time.” There would have been doctor's appointments that the 36-year-old then had to attend. At the time, she didn't want to tell those responsible on site what exactly it was about. She explained that she was having “a medical emergency” and asked that she be given an hour to “clear” her time to go to the doctor the next day.
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“Then they said: 'No, we can't do that,'” she remembers. She still attended the appointment during her break: “The production wasn’t willing to give me that time slot, and in the end I (…) was the complicated one.”
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Nilam Farooq would simply have liked more understanding in this situation. Because even though she didn't go into detail about her “medical emergency,” you could have put two and two together.
Sources used: “Sounds Familiar – The parenting podcast with midwife Sissi Rasche”, Instagram
