Natalie Joy and The Bachelor star Nick Viall will have their rainbow baby one day, she said in a post shared via Instagram.
Joy, who has suffered multiple miscarriages as the pair try to conceive for the second time, opened up to her followers via Instagram Story on Monday, March 24, only one day after sharing the news. “Spent yesterday away from my phone but overwhelmed by the love I woke up to,” she wrote. “Thanks for hanging on with us, we’ll get our rainbow baby one day I’m sure of it.”
Joy and Viall shared the news of their most recent miscarriage on Sunday, March 23.
“While mourning the loss of our second baby at the beginning of this year, I quickly and very unexpectedly found out I was pregnant again,” she wrote in an Instagram Story.
“It took some time for me to accept what had happened, only to be handed another chance so easily and so fast. But eventually, I found so much happiness. We were finally in a place of complete and utter gratitude,” she continued. “This past week, I miscarried again.”
Joy also added that she underwent a D&C following the miscarriage. She plans to go “back to squeezing my husband and my sweet angel River Rose, who are truly the reason I have survived this time and time.”
Joy and Viall welcomed their daughter River Rose in February 2024.
During a January 29 episode of their podcast “The Viall Files,” Joy and Viall shared that she was “actively miscarrying” as they recorded. “It has been the biggest heartbreak, I think, of my life,” Joy, 26, said. “I’ve never experienced something where I feel so empty inside.”
“I was spot bleeding for a while,” Joy recalled, noting that she was “freaked” out by the blood as it wasn’t something that occurred during her previous pregnancy.
“I think I knew from the jump, but I didn’t want to accept that. Then, it just got heavier and heavier,” she continued. “It was like I gave birth, you know, it was like I did, essentially. And I was screaming and crying, and Nick ran into the bathroom.”
“That was definitely the hardest night of my life,” Joy continued. “Just experiencing that is, like, something I wouldn’t wish upon anyone. And unfortunately, I know a lot of women do experience it. I just feel for these people so much because I was so mad at my body for letting it go.”
Joy also shared that her doctor said the miscarried fetus was “unviable.”
“It gives you some hope … if you focus on the scientific part, I think that’s what gets you through it,” she said. “Which is incredibly hard to do, because as the mom, you feel everything. From the second that it was a positive pregnancy test, I felt that baby inside of me. Up until I lost it, it’s so real.”
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