James Van Der Beek Announces He & His Wife Have Suffered a Miscarriage

James Van Der Beek has told his fans that he and wife Kimberly recently endured a miscarriage.

The father of five wrote on Instagram, “After suffering a brutal, very public miscarriage last November, we were overjoyed to learn we were pregnant. This time, we kept the news to ourselves. But last weekend, once again, 17 weeks in… the soul we’d been excited to welcome into the world had lessons for our family that did not include joining us in a living physical body.”

Van Der Beek had announced on “Dancing with the Stars” in November that the couple had miscarried, calling it, “every expecting parent’s worst nightmare.”

Making things harder, this is Kimberly’s fifth miscarriage in the past nine years.

The couple are the parents of Olivia, 9, Joshua, 8, Annabel, 6, Emilia, 4, and Gwendolyn, 2.