Amanda Knox is PREGNANT after devastating miscarriage

Amanda Knox has announced that she is pregnant with her first child, just weeks after she revealed she had suffered a devastating and painful miscarriage during the pandemic. 

The 33-year-old and her husband, Christopher Robinson, shared the news of their baby joy on the latest episode of their podcast, during which Knox recorded herself celebrating the moment that she learned they were pregnant. 

The couple’s happy news comes just one month after Knox and Robinson, who tied the knot in early 2020, opened up about their first-trimester miscarriage – with Knox revealing that the loss of her child made her question whether ‘something had happened to her in Italy’ to cause fertility issues. 

Speaking out about her struggle with infertility, Knox, who was convicted and then acquitted of the 2007 murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy, recalled having to go through an agonizing induced birth after the miscarriage.   

However, her devastation turned to joy in 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.   

‘I’m still several days early,’ Knox is then heard saying, before her husband remarks: ‘Yeah it looks pretty negative.’

However, over the next couple of minutes, the couple becomes increasingly hopeful as faint lines start to appear on the test.  

Celebration: Amanda Knox has announced that she is pregnant with her first child, just one month after revealing she had suffered a devastating miscarriage during the pandemic

Overjoyed: In a new episode of their podcast, Knox, 33, and her husband Christopher Robinson are heard celebrating the moment that they realized her pregnancy test was positive

Overjoyed: In a new episode of their podcast, Knox, 33, and her husband Christopher Robinson are heard celebrating the moment that they realized her pregnancy test was positive

‘There is a faint, faint, faint line,’ Robinson says, before asking his wife to ‘turn the lights up a little’.

‘Oh my god,’ she replies, ‘that is a faint, faint line! OK, OK, OK don’t get too excited, [but] it’s not even that faint! That is so something faint right now!

‘Thank goodness, we did it!’ 

Knox then bursts into happy laughter, before explaining in a voiceover: ‘When you’ve had a loss, it’s hard to trust a sign of good news staring you in the face, especially since we’d been immersed in all these tragic stories [of infertility struggles].’ 

Speaking about her first-trimester miscarriage, Amanda recounted the heartbreaking moment they learned their baby didn’t have a heartbeat – after doctors advised the couple at their eight-week scan to wait another week because the baby only appeared to be six-weeks developed. 

However, when they returned a week later, they were given the devastating news that their unborn child had not grown any more, and there was no heartbeat to be found. 

Questions: Last month, Amanda, who was convicted and then acquitted of the 2007 murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher, spent four years in jail in Italy and said she questioned if 'something happened to her' while she was there to caused fertility

Questions: Last month, Amanda, who was convicted and then acquitted of the 2007 murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher, spent four years in jail in Italy and said she questioned if ‘something happened to her’ while she was there to caused fertility

‘We went back a week later… and it hadn’t grown. It didn’t have a heartbeat,’ she recalled, before admitting that she was left dumbstruck by the news – in part because she hadn’t experienced any of what she believed to be the tell-tale signs of a miscarriage. 

‘That was confusing to me because I thought, “Why would there be a dead baby just hanging out in there?” If it wasn’t viable, why wasn’t it going away,’ she said. 

”My body didn’t even know, and that felt weird to me that something that your body is so in tune with… it didn’t know? I didn’t know that you could have a missed miscarriage.

‘For all intents and purposes, I was pregnant with something that was just not growing.’ 

Amanda’s doctors explained that her body would likely ‘figure it out sooner or later’ but they advised that she go through an induction to push her body to expel the fetus, explaining that if she waited for it to happen naturally, she could be forced to undergo a D&C, which is a much more ‘invasive’ procedure. 

However, the induction, which required Amanda to take two prescription pills, left her in horrific agony – which she said was unlike anything she had ever experienced before. 

‘I went into the bathroom to take the pills and then I just kind of laid on the bed and waited for something to happen,’ she recalled, explaining that she didn’t initially take the pain medication that they prescribed because she wasn’t someone who usually struggled to deal with pain.

But within 30 minutes, Amanda was ‘shaking’ in pain, and she decided to take the pain pills in the hopes of getting some relief. 

‘I didn’t take the pain medication, I thought that was absolute last resort, probably not going to need [it],’ she recounted. ‘And it took about half an hour before I felt anything. But abdominal pain like I’ve not experienced before. I was shaking.

‘Eventually I was like, I can’t take this anymore, I need to take pain medication. I took some and then it was like another half an hour before that kicked in and I was able to stop shaking from pain.’

Christopher admitted he was horrified at seeing his ‘usually tough’ wife in such pain, explaining that he found her ‘crumpled’ and ‘wracked with pain’ in their bedroom. 

Devastated: Knox (pictured at a conference in 2011) broke down in tears as she recalled the moment she learned she had miscarried during a podcast episode last month

Devastated: Knox (pictured at a conference in 2011) broke down in tears as she recalled the moment she learned she had miscarried during a podcast episode last month

Amanda went on to detail the upsetting experience that she had to go through for the next two days, revealing that she essentially had to ‘birth blood’ every time she went to the bathroom. 

‘For like two days, I was birthing blood, wads of blood. Not like a period at all,’ she said, noting that she had ‘read stories’ about people who’d had to ‘go through the toilet’ to try and locate their embryo, which she was ‘grateful’ she didn’t have to do.  

Still, her own miscarriage process was, she said, incredibly upsetting, particularly because she kept asking herself whether her baby was somewhere in the ‘clumps’ that she saw in the toilet. 

The couple has been documenting their infertility struggles in a mini-series on their podcast, Labyrinths

The couple has been documenting their infertility struggles in a mini-series on their podcast, Labyrinths 

‘I remember the biggest clump was about the size of a plum,’ Amanda revealed. ‘There were smaller clumps that came out. And every time I went to the bathroom to do that and I saw those clumps, I kept thinking, “Is that the baby? Where is it in all of this?”‘ 

After going through her miscarriage, Amanda says she began questioning whether she was to blame for it in any way – admitting that she even wondered whether ‘something [had] happened to her while she was over in Italy’ that might have caused fertility issues. 

‘I did feel incredibly disappointed that was the story of my first ever pregnancy,’  she said, adding: ‘I thought, “I know exactly what I want to do with my first pregnancy,” and to have it not come to fruition not through choice felt like a betrayal.

‘Why? Do I have bad eggs and I never knew? Am I actually too old? Did something happen to me while I was over in Italy? 

‘If it’s not easy and you don’t know why then anything could be the problem. And it’s frustrating how little information you have at any point in the process.’

She did not specify what incidents occurred in Italy to cause a fertility issue, however in her 2013 book, Waiting to be Heard, Amanda claimed that she had been subject to sexual harassment at the hands of a senior guard during her time in jail. 

Questions: Amanda and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito (pictured together) were convicted and then acquitted of the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy

Questions: Amanda and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted and then acquitted of the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher (pictured) in Italy

Questions: Amanda and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito (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 following her 2007 arrest, when she was 20 years old, she was forced to strip naked and spread her legs while a doctor measured her vagina. 

‘The doctor inspected the outer lips of my vagina and then separated them with his fingers to examine the inner. He measured and photographed my intimate parts,’ she wrote, according to the Daily News. 

Amanda spent four years in an Italian prison after she was convicted of the November 2007 murder of her former roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, while they were living together with two other women in a shared house in the small town of Perugia. 

The 21-year-old’s body was found half-naked in the property, and it was revealed that she had been stabbed 47 times and had her throat slashed. Police also found signs of sexual assault. 

Amanda, who was dubbed ‘Foxy Knoxy’ by the press and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were both convicted of Kercher’s murder in a 2009. 

However, Amanda was acquitted of the crime in 2011, and she returned to the US, having spent close to four years in jail. She refused to go back to Italy for a retrial three years later – during with she was convicted again – before that conviction was overturned by the Italian Supreme Court in 2015.  

The couple shared that they are going to try to conceive again – and Amanda vented her frustration at being told to ‘give herself time’ after her miscarriage. 

‘[They told me] to give yourself time and I don’t want time, I want to get back on track,’ she said. ‘Why can’t my body just work?’ 

Both Amanda and Chris confessed that they had gone into the process with a naive view, and assumed that ‘it was a straight line from unprotected sex to baby’. 

‘We were wrong, painfully wrong,’ Chris noted.  

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