Sara Bareilles reveals she had a miscarriage in 2026

PUBLISHED ONSeptember 14, 20264:21 AM

Sara Bareilles had a miscarriage this year.

The 46-year-old singer has been open about her fertility struggles, and she has now shared that after undergoing multiple rounds of IVF with husband Joe Tippett, she tragically experienced a pregnancy loss.

She told the New York Times newspaper: “It sucks. Of course I wish I didn’t have a miscarriage.”

However, the Love Song hitmaker admitted that, after a tough period — which included the 2024 death of her close friend Gavin Creel, who partly inspired her new album Good Grief — it was a bit of a “relief” not to be pregnant because this era of her life “would be really, really, really hard” if she was carrying a child.

Last month, Sara spoke of how she “wrestled” with not knowing if she could have children.

Speaking on The Zach Sang Show, Sara said: “I really wrestled because I found so little material out in the world of people talking about their fertility struggles.

“I found a lot of evidence of people talking about how hard it was to get pregnant once they had a healthy baby in their arms, but I didn’t find a lot of people talking; it’s not that there’s none, but I didn’t find a lot of people talking from the sort of, like, messy middle.”

The Girls5Eva star then revealed the gruelling reality of fertility treatment and how demanding it can be.

She said: “The amount of time you spend in these clinics, and it’s like blood draws, and sometimes you’re going in three, four times a week, and they’re checking hormone levels, and you’re getting your medications, and you’re sticking yourself with needles, and you’re on these crazy drugs.”

Sara said a “sense of surrender and powerlessness” comes with undergoing fertility treatment.

She explained: “But the number of women I would encounter on any given day, just like little soldiers, just like coming in before they go to work, or not, or whatever, and just like doing the thing. And doing, it’s like that line, I’m just swimming where they tell me to until I can’t swim no more.

“Like that, there is this total sense of surrender and powerlessness that you just have to make peace with because this is not something that is entirely in my control.

“And no amount of money that I’m throwing at it, no amount of, like, it is just not entirely up to me how this looks. And that is so hard.”