Trina McGee, the actress known for her starring role in the 1990s ABC sitcom, “Boy Meets World,” has announced that she has suffered a miscarriage, more than three months after announcing she was pregnant at age 54.
Through tears, the actress told Tamron Hall during the September 23 episode of The Tamron Hall Show that she lost the baby toward the end of the first trimester, and the reason remains unknown.
“I was still so grateful to have the experience of being able to conceive at this age and this time,” she said. She had previously explained that she had conceived her “miracle” baby naturally. “And, a lot of depression after, ya know, just kind of hard to get out of bed. There’s so many things that come when you really want a family and you want your family to be complete, there’s so many dreams that you have. It was very hard to face the fact that that’s not going to happen at this point…”
She added, “Part of me doesn’t ever want to go through this again. The conclusion I came to is, we’ll just keep loving each other, if something happens that way, fine, but I don’t want to put another anxiety on myself. Sometimes it really is better to let go and let God.”
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McGee is the mother of three other children: Ramia, 33, Langston, 30, and Ezra, 26 with her ex-husband Courtland Davis. This baby was her first with husband Marcello Thedford.
“I have been saying I wanted to have a baby with my current husband of 16 years for quite a while,” she said. The couple had considered IVF before deciding to focus on ‘natural remedies.’
Though McGee faced scrutiny from at least one former co-star who suggested she might be faking the pregnancy, it is possible for a woman to become pregnant naturally in her 50s. McGee said she never experienced true menopause symptoms but was likely in peri-menopause, and that no doctors told her that she was unable to get pregnant.
