Vogue Williams has spoken publicly for the first time about suffering two miscarriages, revealing that the losses have left her feeling anxious throughout her current pregnancy, despite the joy she and husband Spencer Matthews felt when announcing they were expecting their fourth child together.
The presenter shared the news of her pregnancy on Thursday, before speaking at greater length about the journey to get there in a video posted to her YouTube channel. Williams described the two losses as having taken a significant emotional toll, saying there were moments when she felt as though her body had “failed her” — a feeling she acknowledged was not rational, but one she found difficult to shake nonetheless.
The first miscarriage occurred before the birth of the couple’s daughter Gigi in 2020. Williams said it had happened very early — at around four weeks — before any scans had taken place. “It was really upsetting at the time,” she said, “but then I was pregnant quite quickly after.” Because events moved on swiftly, she said she hadn’t dwelt on it deeply at the time.
The second loss proved more distressing. Williams had reached the three-month mark and had already told her parents, siblings and colleagues before attending what she expected to be a routine 12-week scan — alone, having not wanted to make a fuss. What the scan revealed was that while a pregnancy sac had formed, the embryo had not developed. Her body, however, had continued to register the pregnancy as normal. “I just had symptoms and wasn’t pregnant,” she said. “It was awful feeling it and not being it.”
She described the immediate aftermath as compounding the grief with an unexpected sense of shame. “Stupidly I felt embarrassed having to tell everybody — and it’s not an embarrassing thing, but that was just an emotion I had. I felt like my body had kind of failed me.” Having to inform those she’d already told added another layer of pain to an already difficult experience.
Williams elected to undergo a surgical procedure rather than wait for the miscarriage to occur naturally, partly because she was due to travel to Spain with her children and did not want to face the process alone at home. She praised the team at Chelsea and Westminster NHS for their care throughout.
Spencer Matthews echoed the emotional weight of the experience, acknowledging that the path to this pregnancy had been harder than their previous ones. “There have definitely been more bumps in the road,” he said, adding that the couple felt “really fortunate” to have three children already, but that reaching the point of being able to share this news had been “rough.”
Williams said she remains nervous throughout the current pregnancy as a result of what the couple have been through, though she admitted finding an unlikely comfort in persistent morning sickness. “Sometimes I’m grateful that I feel so sick all the time, because then I know it’s there and it’s what it should be,” she said.
She closed by saying she hoped her account might offer some reassurance to others who had experienced similar losses. “Hopefully it helps other people who that happens to,” she said, “and there can be light at the end of the tunnel.”
