Amanda Knox has announced that she is pregnant with her first child, just weeks after she revealed that she had suffered a devastating and painful miscarriage during the pandemic.
The 33-year-old and her husband, Christopher Robinson, shared the joyous news of their baby on the latest episode of their podcast, during which Knox recorded herself celebrating the moment she found out she was pregnant.
The couple’s good news comes just a month after Knox and Robinson, who tied the knot in early 2020, opened up about their first-trimester miscarriage — Knox revealed the loss of her baby made her question whether ‘Something happened to her’ to cause fertility issues in ‘Italy’.
Speaking about her struggle with infertility, Knox, who was convicted and then acquitted in the 2007 murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher. ItalyMissed to undergo a painful induced birth after a miscarriage.
However, her devastation turned to joy on the latest episode of Labyrinths: Getting Lost with Amanda Knox, during which she shared an audio recording of the moment she learned her pregnancy test was positive.
After completing the test Knox is heard saying, ‘I still have several days to go,’ before her husband remarks: ‘Yeah, that sounds pretty negative.’
However, over the next few minutes, the couple becomes increasingly hopeful as faint lines begin to appear on the test.
Celebration: Amanda Knox has announced she is pregnant with her first child, just a month after revealing that she had a devastating miscarriage during the pandemic
Devastated: The 33-year-old (pictured at a convention in 2011) broke down in tears as she recalled the moment she learned she had a miscarriage during a podcast episode last month
“There is a faint, faint, faint line,” Robinson says, before asking his wife to “brighten the lights a little.”
‘Oh my God,’ she replies, ‘that’s a faint, faded line! OK, OK, OK, don’t get too excited, [but] It’s not even that faded!’
Speaking about her first-trimester miscarriage, Amanda recalled the heartbreaking moment she found out her baby didn’t have a heartbeat — her eight-week scan by doctors gave the couple another week. After being advised to wait, as the baby appeared to have developed only six weeks .
However, when they returned a week later, they were given the devastating news that their unborn child was no longer growing, and no heartbeat was found.
‘We went back a week later … and it hadn’t grown. It didn’t take heartbreak,’ she said, before admitting that she was stunned by the news – in part because she hadn’t experienced any of the telltale signs of miscarriage.
‘It was confusing to me because I thought, “Why must there be a dead baby hanging out there?” If it wasn’t viable, why wasn’t it going,’ she said.
Q: Amanda, who was convicted and then acquitted in the 2007 murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher, spent four years in prison in Italy and said she questioned whether ‘something happened’ to her when she was there because of fertility issues
“My body didn’t even know, and it struck me as strange that there was something your body so matched with… didn’t know it? I didn’t know you could miss a miscarriage.
‘For all intents and purposes, I was pregnant with something that just wasn’t developing.’
Amanda’s doctors explained that her body would ‘detect it sooner or later’, but they advised that she go through an induction to push her body to eject the fetus, explaining that if If she waits for this to happen naturally, she may be forced to undergo a D&C, which is a more ‘invasive’ procedure.
However, the induction, which required Amanda to take two prescription pills, left her in terrible agony—which she said was unlike anything she’d ever experienced before.
“I went to the bathroom to take the pills and then I just lay in bed waiting for something to happen,” she recalled, explaining that she had not initially taken the pain medication they had prescribed because she No Thi is someone who usually struggles to deal with pain.
But within 30 minutes, Amanda was ‘shaking’ from the pain, and decided to take pain pills, hoping to find some relief.
‘I didn’t take pain medicine, I thought it was a last resort, probably didn’t need it [it], ‘he told. ‘And it took about half an hour for me to feel anything. But I have never experienced stomach pain like before. I was shaking.
‘Finally I was like, I can’t take this anymore, I need to take pain medicine. I took some and then it was like half an hour ago and I was able to stop moving from the pain.’
Christopher admitted that he was horrified to see his ‘usually tough’ wife in such pain, explaining that he found her ‘crushed’ and ‘soaked in pain’ in his bedroom.
Together: Her husband, Christopher Robinson, joined her on the podcast, and recalled her upset seeing his ‘usually tough’ wife ‘crushed’ and ‘painfully’ on their bed
Amanda detailed the harrowing experience for the next two days, revealing that she had to compulsively ‘produce blood’ every time she went to the bathroom.
‘For like two days, I was giving birth to blood, effigies of blood. Not like a period at all,’ she said, noting that she ‘read stories’ about people who had to ‘go through the toilet’ and try to locate their fetus, which she was ‘grateful’ who had did not pass. to do.
Still, her own abortion procedure was incredibly upsetting, especially as she kept asking herself if her baby was somewhere in the ‘clump’ she saw in the toilet.
Opening up: Amanda talks about her miscarriage on a new episode of her and Chris’ podcast, Labyrinths
Amanda revealed, ‘The largest clump I can remember was about the size of a plum. ‘Little flakes came out. And every time I went to the bathroom to do this and I saw those bunches, I kept thinking, “Is that kid? Where’s the hell in all of this?”
After going through her miscarriage, Amanda says she began to question whether she should be blamed in any way for it – admitting that she also wondered if ‘something [had] happened to her while she was in Italy’ which could lead to fertility problems.
‘I felt incredibly disappointed that this was the story of my first pregnancy,’ she said: ‘I thought, “I know what I want to do with my first pregnancy,” and it didn’t work out. . Felt like a betrayal through choice.
‘Why? Do I have bad eggs and I never found out? am i really that old? Did something happen to me when I was in Italy?
‘If it’s not easy and you don’t know why then anything can be a problem. And it’s frustrating how little information you have at any point in the process.’
She did not specify which incidents led to the fertility issue in Italy, although in her 2013 book, Waiting to Be Heard, Amanda claimed that she was sexually assaulted at the hands of a senior guard while in prison. There was a victim.
Q: Amanda and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Solecito (left) were convicted and then acquitted of the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher (right) in Italy.
Amanda also said that she was given a false HIV diagnosis by medical staff and that after her arrest in 2007, when she was 20, she was forced to strip naked and spread her legs while a doctor asked her to The vagina was measured.
‘The doctor inspected the outer lips of my vagina and then separated them with his fingers for an internal examination. He measured and photographed my intimate parts,’ she wrote, according to Daily News.
Amanda spent four years in an Italian prison after pleading guilty to the November 2007 murder of her former roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, while living with two other women in a shared home in the small town of Perugia .
The body of the 21-year-old was found half-naked at the property, and it was revealed that she had been stabbed 47 times and her throat was slit. The police also found traces of sexual abuse.
Amanda, dubbed ‘Foxy Knoxie’ by the press, and her then-boyfriend Raphael Solecito were both convicted of Kercher’s murder in 2009.
However, Amanda was acquitted of the crime in 2011, and she returned to the US after spending nearly four years in prison. He refused to go to Italy for re-trial three years later – during which time he was convicted again – before the sentence was overturned by the Italian Supreme Court in 2015.
The couple shared that they are going to try to conceive again – and Amanda expressed her disappointment at being asked to ‘give herself time’ after a miscarriage.
‘[They told me] To give myself time and I don’t need time, I want to get back on track,’ she said. ‘Why can’t my body function?’
Amanda and Chris both admitted that they went through the process with a naive eye, and assumed that ‘it was a straight line from unprotected sex to child’.
‘We were wrong, painfully wrong,’ Chris said.
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