Sharon Stone built a family after overcoming nine miscarriages

Sharon Stone has opened up like never-before in her new memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, detailing how she suffered has nine miscarriages over the years.

Speaking candidly about the ‘profound loss‘ she endured during her fertility struggles, the 64-year-old revealed how the heartbreak she experienced helped inspire her decision to adopt.

Following several failed relationships and a lengthy custody battle with her ex-husband Phil Bronstein, the Hollywood star is now a single mother to her three adopted sons, Roan, 22, Laird, 16, and Quinn, 15.

The journey to motherhood has been a complicated one for the Total Recall star, who recently revealed she secretly had an abortion when she was 18.  

Stone then found herself struggling to conceive during her marriage to Bronstein due to an autoimmune disease and endometriosis.

The couple then adopted her first child, Roan, before their divorce in 2004 led to a 13-year custody battle.

Within that time, Stone expanded her family further as she adopted two more sons, Laird and Quinn.

As the star continues to raise her children as a single mom, FEMAIL takes a look back at her colorful relationship history and the health issues that led her down the path of adoption.

Her secret abortion as a teenager before finding fame

Before making the move to Los Angeles in order to pursue a career in showbusiness, Stone grew up in ’near poverty in Pennsylvania’s Amish country‘. 

During her youth, the Gloria star has previously revealed that she was subjected to horrific abuse at the hands of her late father, whom she has since forgiven.

Stone, who worked at McDonalds and as a waitress , got an abortion after falling pregnant by ‚her first serious boyfriend‘.

The actress recalls the incident in the pages of her recently released memoir, blaming her ‚extreme country background‘ and ’sexual inexperience‘ for her teen pregnancy.

Stone was driven by her then-boyfriend to Ohio because she was ‚too young‘ to get an abortion in her home state of Pennsylvania, as per an excerpt published by The Sun.

After the procedure, Stone ’stayed in [her] room and bled for days‘ because she was ‚too afraid to tell anyone.‘

‚When she finally came out, she burned her bloody sheets and clothes before going straight back to school,‘ the outlet summarized of the traumatic incident.

 How her hunt for true love resulted in several failed relationships and marriages

Stone has made many headlines over the years after publicly dealing with failed marriages and engagements over the course of her career.

In 1984, the star began dating television producer Michael Greenburg on the set of The Vegas Strip War.

The pair eventually went on to separate in 1987, before their divorce was finalized in 1990.

The Where Sleeping Dogs Lie actress then enjoyed a brief relationship with comedian Garry Shandling, before she went on to begin a relationship with producer William MacDonald after meeting on the set of the film, Sliver, in 1993.

MacDonald ended his marriage with Naomi Baca for Stone and the couple became engaged in the same year.However, they separated in 1994 – with Stone famously returning the engagement ring via FexEx.

The Last Action Hero actress found love again in 1994 as she once again connected with a colleague on set. After striking up a romance with first assistant director Bob Wagner, they pair became engaged that same year.

Ultimately, things did not work out and Stone moved on with journalist Phil Bronstein, who works as the executive editor of The San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle.

The pair wed in 1998 and adopted their son, Roan Joseph Bronstein, two years later.However, the relationship turned sour with Bronstein filing for Link Alternatif Mantap168 divorce in 2003.

Reflecting on the breakdown of the marriage, Stone told AARP magazine: ‚He just didn’t see me, talk to me, look at me…. His initial intention with me was probably corrupt.I was suckered. I’m embarrassed to say that.‘  

Bronstein was awarded primary custody of Roan in 2008, with a judge ruling that the child should stay in San Francisco. 

The court decision was devastating for the actress.Recalling when she had to speak at philanthropic event afterwards in an interview with Saga magazine, Stone remembered praying: ‚“God, please help me. I know I have to go out there and raise money. But I’ve lost my child, I’ve lost my health, I’ve lost everything.“ I was just broken.‘

 ‚After I lost primary custody of Roan, I couldn’t function. I just lay on the couch.I was so damn tired. I would cry,‘ she continued. ‚I couldn’t focus on anything but having my son back in my arms. Nothing else mattered, just getting him back,‘ she added. 

Stone has since then signed a confidentiality agreement about the custody battle.

The Casino star has also been linked to country singer Dwight Yoakam, film executive Barry Josephson, model Martin Mica, actor David DeLuise and real estate mogul Angelo Boffa over the years.

In 2018, Stone stated she won’t ever allow herself to be ‚defined‘ by a man and claimed she will no longer enter a relationship unless it is an ‚actual partnership.‘

Speaking to Grazia magazine, she stated: ‚I was just not that girl who was told that a man would define me.I was told that if I wanted to have a man in my life, it wouldn’t be an arrangement, it would be an actual partnership. And those are hard to find.‘

Reflecting on her rollercoaster love life in 2021, Stone told Elle magazine: ‚I have failed important aspects, with my health, marriages, but have lived to tell the tale.‘

How the star silently overcame nine miscarriages while trying to start a family

In June 20202, Stone spoke for the first time about suffering nine miscarriages as she shared her anguish that there is ’no forum to discuss the profound loss‘.

The Lovelace actress discussed her loss underneath an Instagram post by People, in which Dancing With The Stars performer Peta Murgatroyd had opened up about losing a pregnancy with her husband Maks Chmerkovskiy.

The star wrote: ‚We, as females don’t have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss.I lost nine children by miscarriage It is no small thing, physically nor emotionally.

‚Yet we are made to feel it is something to bear alone and secretly with some kind of sense of failure. Instead of receiving the much needed compassion and empathy and healing which we so need.‘

She continued: ‚Female health and wellness left to the care of the male ideology has become lax at best, ignorant in fact, and violently oppressive in effort.‘

The Disaster Artist actress has previously explained how she went through ’36 hours of labor alone‘ after losing a baby at five and a half months pregnant.

This wasn’t the first time the movie icon had opened up about the painful subject, as the year before saw Stone candidly reflect on her miscarriages while praising the ‚global sisterhood‘ for now speaking out about ‚issues of loss and heartache‘.

The star explained that she went through ’36 hours of labor alone‘ after losing a baby at five and a half months pregnant, revealing that nurses stayed with her and she felt a ’strong sense of understanding‘.

Speaking openly about her own experiences, Stone also explained she felt a ’strong sense of sisterhood‘ from the nurses helping her through a ‚fifth and a half month miscarriage‘ during a Radio 4 Women’s Hour and BBC Sounds interview.

She said: ‚It’s a devastating experience and I have to say I was really grateful to Chrissy Teigen for allowing us to publicly share what she went through.‘

‚When I lost my last baby, and then went back to the hospital and had 36 hours of labour on my own to, of course, birth nothing – and the nurses that had been in the hospital with me two days before when they removed the last baby came in and sat with me on their day off.

‚I really felt such a strong sense of sisterhood and understanding.Because I would have been alone. And that’s such an alone feeling anyway.‘

How her struggle to conceive began her adoption journey

During her married to Phil Bronstein, Stone suffered several miscarriages which led the couple to look into adoption.

In 2000, they adopted their son, Roan, and ended up in a lengthy custody battle over their child after divorcing in 2004.

At the time, Stone lost custody of their adopted three-year-old and the star recalled the heart-breaking moment in her memoir.

‚I couldn’t function,‘ the star wrote, adding that she believed the situation caused her to have a prolapsed valve that led her to develop anorexia at the time.

After a ‚very long, very difficult game of custody chess‘ which took 13 years – a now 22-year-old Roan lives with his mother.

Meanwhile, Stone also adopted her second son Laird Vonne, 16, in 2005, before adding her third son, Quinn Kelly Stone, 15, to the family in 2006.

In 2018, the Mosaic star revealed that being a parent to her three boys co