Julia Louis-Dreyfus Opens Up About Her Devastating Pregnancy Loss at 28 & the Best Meal Her Mom Cooked

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has opened up about a devastating pregnancy loss when she was 28 years old.

The former Seinfeld star married Brad Hall in 1987 and two years later, she was pregnant.

“When I was about 28, I got pregnant for the first time and I was crazy happy,” the 62 year-old actress said.

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“I got pregnant easily. I felt very fertile, very womanly. And then, quite late in the pregnancy, my husband Brad and I discovered that this little fetus was not going to live,” she told the Wiser Than Me podcast.

“So that was emotionally devastating as you can imagine, but it got worse because I developed an infection that landed me in the hospital,” she said.

It was a “complete nightmare” and added that despite her mom’s amazing meal, she couldn’t eat it.

“After a couple of days, I finally got out of the hospital and I came home to recuperate, but I wasn’t allowed to get out of bed yet. I was, as they say, bedridden,” Julia said. “But my mom cooked. She made this incredible, cozy chili in a cast iron skillet with cornbread on top, in the pan. She and my husband Brad set up a little card table at the foot of the bed.”

“The smell of that cornbread and the chili was so wonderful. It just filled the room and the whole house and my heart, really,” Julia continued. “Because, here’s the thing. I couldn’t eat. I wasn’t yet allowed to have solid food. But, it didn’t matter. It was the best meal ever and I didn’t even eat it. The making of it was so comforting, it was so embracing.”

“Food is central to the traditions of my family,” Julia said. “I would think that to most families, that’s the case. I relate food especially to my mom. She’s a great cook,” she said. “This is one of my greatest memories around food, even though it has sort of an odd kicker.”

Julia and Brad went on to have two children, Charlie, 25, and Henry, 30.

The trailer for Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘ new movie, You Hurt My Feelings, has just been released.