Kate Gosselin reveals seventh fetal loss during sextuplet pregnancy

Kate Gosselin said she lost a seventh fetus during the pregnancy that produced her sextuplets, revealing the long-ago loss in the fourth installment of a six-part TikTok series about her fertility, pregnancy and birth journey posted Sept. 3. The former reality star said the loss occurred early in the pregnancy, after an initial ultrasound at six weeks showed seven embryos.

Gosselin recounted that clinicians asked her to return for a follow-up ultrasound a short time later, but she said she could not recall whether that was one or two weeks. In between the scans, she said, the seventh fetus stopped growing. A separate scare followed when she began bleeding and went to the emergency room, fearing she was miscarrying the entire pregnancy. She said the ultrasound technician initially grew quiet, which she took as a bad sign, before announcing, I see six heartbeats. Theyre there. At that moment, she said, relief set in and she resolved to do whatever was necessary to protect the remaining pregnancies. I was going to fight for them, she said.

Gosselin, now 50, has long been public about her struggles to conceive. She has polycystic ovary syndrome, a hormonal condition that can make...