Olympic cycling legend Dame Laura Kenny says she felt “lonely” after losing her unborn child and opened up about her miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy to “give support to other women”.
The five-time Olympic gold medallist received her damehood from the Duke of Cambridge at Windsor Castle on Tuesday, alongside husband Jason who was awarded a knighthood.
Speaking about her decision to share her personal experiences in an Instagram post last month, she said she hoped it would help other women and families.
The 30-year-old told the PA news agency: “You wish it never happens to you and it’s not until you go through it that you realise how lonely it is, and I think it was that that made us realise that actually, OK, it was a bad situation to us but lots of people go through it.
“You don’t know where to turn to and I think just by us being ‘brave’, (as) lots of people were branding it.
“But by stepping out and actually saying ‘look, it can happen to anyone and it has happened to us’, it gave lots of people a platform."
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