Gina Carano Reveals Tragic Miscarriage Experience And Her Journey To Healing

Known for her strength both on and off the screen, Gina Carano revealed the heartbreaking experience of miscarrying her daughter when she was three months pregnant.

Carano was fired by Disney after the second season of The Mandalorian for sharing her political views and has taken legal action against them, with the support of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, in a move that underscores her determination to stand up for herself and others facing similar situations.

Now, in a recent interview with Shawn Ryan, Carano opened up about a deeply personal and previously undisclosed struggle—the heartbreaking miscarriage of her daughter when she was three months pregnant.

Carano first shared the story while discussing her work with renowned directors Steven Soderbergh and Jon Favreau, highlighting how the pain of her miscarriage intertwined with her professional life. “Yeah, [working on the film] was amazing. And it was also painful. I had had a miscarriage right before,” she revealed. “So between the movie, like, there was a couple months of the movie getting set up, and I was doing the stunts for the movie and had to run to the bathroom and throw up… And long story short, ended up having a miscarriage and never been through that before.”

The emotional toll of the miscarriage was intense, leading Carano to immerse herself in work as a means of coping. “And so I dove into Haywire so hard because I was in so much pain and didn’t want to face what was happening with someone who was my boyfriend. But we had no longer been together,” she said.

This period of intense grief and confusion drove Carano to seek solace in a familiar place—Thailand—where she trained after filming. However, even in Thailand, the weight of her loss was inescapable. “I remember looking in the mirror and not recognizing my eyes. You know, my eyes were dark and sad, and I knew I needed to, you know, get on my knees and really kind of figure out how to find the light again. And it did take years for that to heal,” she said.

The interview also delved deeper into the confusion Carano felt regarding the procedure she underwent following the miscarriage. “It was a confusing time because I couldn’t tell if the doctor was telling me what I wanted to hear, like, or needed to hear because the doctor knew my situation, so I was confused if he was telling me the truth or not,” she explained. “And I was supposedly three months along, and there was no heartbeat. And on top of that, there was about three softball-sized cysts… I didn’t understand.”

This confusion was compounded by a traumatic experience during the surgery. “I actually woke up on the operating table… I felt like that motherly instinct woke up, and it was like they were all laughing and, like, hanging out like normal surgery,” she recounted. “But for me… I was so just heartbroken and didn’t understand if that was an abortion or was it a miscarriage, and… you know, and the doctor told me, no, this is not an abortion. This is, you know, there is no heartbeat, and we have to take those cysts out.”

The pain of that experience lingered, but Carano eventually found a way to cope through her faith. “It took me a long time to kind of just give that to God,” she shared. Her journey to healing was not easy, but it was transformative.

“Right now, I’m seeing such beauty in life and looking back through my life, and understanding and seeing that if people can just hold on past that, there is life. There’s life on the other side of failure and embarrassment, and there’s life on the other side of, like, other people’s expectations of you. You know, there’s a beautiful life in the sunset every single day, and there’s a beautiful life in the sunrise,” she said.

Carano also shared that the name of her new business, “Ravency,” is a tribute to the child she lost. “Raven was the name I would have called the baby that I lost,” she said, drawing inspiration from the story of Noah in the Bible.

Carano's vulnerability sheds light on the confusion that many women face when dealing with a miscarriage, especially in a society where the line between miscarriage care and abortion is often blurred by pro-abortion rhetoric. Carano’s candid reflection on whether the procedure she underwent was an abortion or not resonates with many who have faced similar doubts. The actress revealed that it took years for her to come to terms with the loss and to understand that the procedure was not an abortion, but a necessary step to address the tragic situation.

As Carano’s story illustrates, the distinction between the two is crucial: abortion is the intentional ending of a preborn child’s life, while miscarriage care involves the removal of a child who has already died naturally. This distinction is vital, both medically and morally, as it honors the grief and loss that parents like Carano experience.

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