Friday Night Lights Actor Zach Gilford and Wife Kiele Sanchez Suffer Late-Term Miscarriage

Couple was expecting their first child in November

By Kendall Fisher Oct 09, 2015 4:57 PMTags
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Kiele Sanchez has suffered a miscarriage less than a month before expecting her baby.

The Kingdom actress was planning for her first child, a baby boy, with husband and Friday Night Lights actor Zach Gilford. The child was due to be born in November.

A rep for the couple tells E! News, "We regretfully confirm that Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez recently lost their child to a late term miscarriage.  No additional details will be made available.  We thank everyone in advance for their sensitivity and discretion during this difficult time."

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Sanchez originally confirmed her pregnancy in August while promoting Kingdom. She told reporters, "I am playing a woman who is pretty detached from the thing that's growing inside her, and I couldn't be more excited about my pregnancy. So when I slip into [my character] Lisa, I'm at odds with this thing down here."

She continued, "It's something that I think that she at certain points really questions her decision to keep it, which couldn't be further from my own life. So it's a weird, strange, strange thing, especially when he kicks during a scene, you have to go on as if this thing didn't just move inside your body. So it's bizarre."

Sanchez and Gilford married in 2012 after dating for two years.

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