The podcaster, who went through three miscarriages last year, announced in February that she's expecting twins
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- Natalie Joy is opening up about experiencing three miscarriages last year and her struggle with grief while raising her daughter
- Joy and husband Nick Viall sought help from a fertility specialist and discovered she has a rare blood mutation
- After treatment, Joy is now pregnant with twins and feels they are the babies she lost returning at the right time
Natalie Joy is opening up about the "grief" of experiencing three miscarriages last year.
The podcaster, 27, spoke with Spread the Jelly for a new interview and got candid about her fertility journey. Joy, who shares daughter River Rose, 2, with husband Nick Viall, previously shared publicly that she'd experienced three miscarriages in 2025.
"I found out I was pregnant again when River was almost a year old," Joy said. "I started spotting with this pregnancy, which I had never experienced with River. I thought it was weird."
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Joy said that her sister and her doctors told her it was normal, but she knew innately that something was seriously wrong.
"After that first miscarriage, there was just so much heartbreak. I'd never experienced grief like that before," explained Joy. "And I had an almost one-year-old who didn't understand anything — she just wanted me to be happy. I felt like I was always putting on her for, pretending everything was okay."
Joy recalled feeling like her husband Viall was getting a "broken version of me," but said that tough moment made her more sure that she'd married the right person. She said Viall wasn't ever rushing to get her through her grief, but was "just in it with me."
"We went through that together, and then very quickly after, I found out I was pregnant again. This one I believe was more of a chemical pregnancy," said Joy. "I did have to have a DNC for my second and third miscarriage, which is just a whole other invasion of privacy that I never thought I would have to experience."
Joy went on to say that it's one thing to be trying to conceive and constantly getting a negative pregnancy test. But she had the opposite problem — it was easy for her to conceive, but she couldn't sustain the pregnancies past the first trimester.
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"It got so frustrating. I had three miscarriages, I'm 26 years old, we have this healthy one-year-old, beautiful, easy pregnancy, and still no answers," she shared. "So we started seeking help."
Joy and Viall went to a fertility specialist, who ran a "million tests." When everything came back normal, Joy felt even more frustrated. Finally, they tested for a very specific thing that they "don't test for anymore." And that's what Joy ended up having.
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"It's this gene mutation, a blood mutation, where my body basically attacks when a fetus is there," she explained. "After that, we took time off, worked with the specialist, and I started seeing a hematologist because it's a blood disorder."
When she got pregnant again, Joy started taking blood thinner shots in her stomach, plus baby aspirin. At her five-week appointment, Joy learned that not only is she pregnant — but expecting twins.
"It felt like I just got back my first and my third miscarriage babies. Like, they were ready now. It's their time," she said. "They weren't ready before, but now they are."
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