According to ScreenRant, Seinfeld star, Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Onward), talks about a very emotional life altering tragedy coincidentally happening during the timeframe of the sitcom’s release in 1989. Dreyfus reveals that she had a miscarriage during the apex of her career affecting the legendary actress to her core.
Seinfeld, the infamous sitcom about nothing, follows the lives of up-and-coming comedian Jerry Seinfeld (The Bee Movie, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee), and his three closest friends often involved in everyday shenanigans in New York City. The 90’s classic includes Julia Louis Dreyfus, as Elaine Benes, with additional main characters George Costanza, played by Jason Alexander (Pretty Woman, Young Sheldon, The Hunchback of Notre Dame) , and Cosmo Kramer, portrayed by Micheal Richards (The Michael Richards Show, Toy Story 2, South Park). The show ran for nine seasons on NBS until 1998, launching a new start for Jerry and his three co-stars Hollywood careers.
Dreyfus talked about her personal life and the unfortunate events of the past during the most recent episode of her podcast entitled Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She opened up about her tragic experience detailing at 28 years old she became pregnant for the first time, later during her term she had an unexpected miscarriage, leaving the actress with a nasty infection causing her to be bedridden in the hospital for several weeks. Full quote below:
“When I was about 28, I got pregnant for the first time, and I was crazy happy. I got pregnant easily; I felt very fertile, very womanly. Quite late in the pregnancy, my husband Brad [Hall] and I discovered this little fetus was not gonna live. So that was emotionally devastating, as you can imagine, but it got worse because I developed an infection that landed me in the hospital.”
Dreyfus eventually recovered from her loss and went on to have a stellar career in television entertainment appearing on Saturday Night Live on regular basis. Later performing leading roles in The New Adventures of Old Christine and VEEP, winning her a total of 11 Emmy Awards for her performances across the three sitcoms.
Louis-Dreyfus did manage to bare two sons, Henry Hall (Rutherford Falls, VEEP, Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Charlie Hall (Bel-Air, Single Drunk Female, Love,Victor), who would follow in their mother’s footsteps, starring in the television series The Sex Lives of College Girls. Dreyfus mentions being proud of their legacy, describing their performance as “dynamite.”