Overview
- Schäfer, speaking on Katja Burkard’s Glow Up Your Life episode published Monday, March 30, detailed several miscarriages and said one loss in the fourth month unfolded during what was meant to be a routine ultrasound.
- She recalled an assistant doctor changing color and leaving the exam room without explanation, which left her waiting in silence and later wondering who that child might have become.
- The TV host had her first child at 41 and argued that many women delay childbirth because they spend longer in school, work to establish a career, and face lasting income losses once a first child arrives.
- She said she knew time was short but waited to meet a partner she trusted to be a good father, adding that she and husband Michel Friedman connected late in life and that later motherhood brought her a sense of calm even as she worries about aging.
- German outlets amplified the podcast this week, placing her story in the broader European trend of rising first-birth ages and noting that public testimony about miscarriage can ease stigma and encourage more open conversation.