The strain clearly etched on her face, Kelly Preston couldn’t wait to board her husband’s plane out of Rio, following a terrifying miscarriage scare last month.
With an attentive John guiding her, the 47-year-old actress was still shaken after scary abdominal symptoms had her pleading for the life of her unborn baby.
Following their visit to the World Cup celebrations in Cape Town, South Africa, two weeks ago, the star couple and their daughter Ella Blue, 10, flew in to steamy Brazil on June 16. They later left the Hotel Fasano for a day of shopping, but things didn’t go to plan.
“Suddenly, Kelly began to experience abdominal discomfort and became woozy. She was pale, dripping with sweat and breathing heavily. She clutched her stomach and cried to John, ‘Please save my baby!’ John never left her side.”
While the drama thankfully passed quickly and the baby is said to be fine, Kelly is keen not to place herself under any further strain. The couple, still reeling from the death of their 16-year-old son Jett in January last year, are determined that nothing go wrong with their little miracle.
Read more in this week’s Woman’s Day, on sale July 5, 2010.
