“Boy Meets World” star Trina McGee announced she suffered a miscarriage after a high-risk pregnancy at age 54.
“We don’t have any real reasons why,” McGee told Tamron Hall during an appearance that aired on Monday.
McGee, who conceived the natural way, said she lost her unborn baby early on in the pregnancy.
“You revealed to me that you were no longer pregnant,” Hall said, recalling a conversation that she had with McGee in a phone call prior to the morning talk show.
“I did lose the baby. It wasn’t expected, it was closer to the end of the first trimester. We don’t have any real reasons why. I was still so grateful to have the experience of being able to conceive at this age and this time,” McGee said, adding that she went through “a lot of depression” and that “it was hard to get out of bed.”
McGee said she wanted to have a child with her current husband, actor Marcello Thedford. She turned to “natural remedies,” including going to a holistic healer, to help her conceive at 54.
“There are so many things that come when you really want a family and you want your family to be complete. There are so many dreams that you have. It was hard to face the fact that that’s not going to happen at this point in the junction,” said McGee.
McGee shares three adult children with her first husband, Courtland Davis. She is pictured with 2 of her three kids and her current husband, Marcello.
When Hall pointed out that many people choose to wait until later into their pregnancies to announce the news, McGee admitted that she was simply “so excited” to share the news that she didn’t want to wait.
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“There were so many women who, even at 55 and older, still want to get pregnant or don’t want to be boxed into this ‘geriatric pregnancy’ thing,” McGee said. “I don’t know if I’m here to give advice for everybody, because everybody’s body is different, and you should listen to your doctors.”
McGee is best known for her role as Angela Moore on the TV sitcom “Boy Meets World.”
“Part of me doesn’t ever want to go through this again,” she told Hall. “The conclusion I came to is, we’ll just keep loving each other, if something happens that way, fine, but I don’t want to put another anxiety on myself. Sometimes it really is better to let go and let God.”
Watch the interview below.
