Sharon Stone is not always my favorite person but I do admire her advocacy for health. She works tirelessly for AIDS awareness and research. Plus she and her sister Kelly founded Planet Hope that helps disadvantaged children. I didn’t know that her sister Kelly suffers from lupus. Sharon and Kelly attended Lupus L.A. Orange Ball: Rocket to a Cure recently and were interviewed by Terri Seymour, herself a lupus sufferer who has been in remission for 10 years. Sharon told Terri that she does not have lupus herself, but as a carrier, suffered three miscarriages, something she’s touched on before, all at five and a half months. She now knows why but at that time there were no answers.
Only “Extra’s” Terri Seymour caught up with Hollywood superstar Sharon Stone and her sister Kelly as the two banded together to raise money and awareness at Lupus L.A. Orange Ball: Rocket to a Cure.
Sharon was spending the special night with her sister Kelly, who is battling lupus. Sharon, who held back tears, was happy to be by Kelly’s side, commenting, “I have to say I think it’s brought us a lot closer, wouldn’t you?” Kelly replied, “I think so… It’s amazing that I have a sister who is not afraid to use her voice, and people listen and she loves me so much.”
Stone has also been affected by lupus, explaining, “The Rh factor is a genetic thing, so all of the siblings have the Rh factor.” As a result, she had difficulties getting pregnant, pointing out, “I can say that I had three, five-and-a-half-month miscarriages and no one had any answer for me, what’s going on, why is this happening to me. So, I think when we go through this as a family, it’s devastating that the medical community is not paying the attention that’s needed.”
I Googled some information on this but I recognize that I might get this wrong so please feel free to correct me in the comments if so. I think the “Rh factor” Sharon is speaking about has to do with Rh negative blood which does have a big effect on pregnancy. Fortunately, there are ways today to maintain a pregnancy even with Rh negative blood, but that doesn’t factor in the lupus. My mother, who is Rh negative, carried and birthed three Rh positive kids in the 60s, prior to in-vitro transfusions and shots. She did have one miscarriage. Doctors like to ask us a lot of questions about how we came about since two of us should not be here. (We blame our mom, she never does anything she’s supposed to.) But three miscarriages well into her second trimester – that’s tragic. I can’t imagine how hard it was on Sharon and the mix of emotions she must have had each time she found out she was pregnant. Sharon is a mom to three boys, whom she adopted.
In addition to fundraising, Sharon might be back on screen soon. Since Marvel likes gimmicks almost as much as Sharon, the rumor on the street is that she might appear as Janet Van Dyne, the original Wasp, in the next Ant-Man movie. And who else is in Ant Man 2? Basic Instinct co-star Michael Douglas. If they don’t find a way to incorporate an icepick and a Bart Simpson keychain, I’ll never forgive them.
Photo credit: WENN Photos
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