The Burlesque star opens up about her struggle to have a baby with Sonny Bono.
Cher is back in the new film Burlesque, co-starring Christina Aguilera, and she recently spoke to Parade magazine about her struggle to get pregnant with her ex-husband, Sonny Bono. After marrying Sonny in 1963, Cher suffered a string of miscarriages, which she called a “nightmare.” “I lost four kids before Chaz,” the singer, 64, says referring to her daughter Chastity, who underwent a sex change last year and now goes by the name of Chaz). “It’s a spontaneous miscarriage, something that spontaneously aborts the fetus. It’s called an angry uterus. It took a long time for someone to tell me that that’s what it was. It just starts to contract, for no reason. After the third time, it got to be a nightmare. People would be congratulating me because I was pregnant, and then I wouldn’t be, and then they would be like, ‘Oh, we’re so sorry.’ I thought, ‘God, I don’t want to have to hear this anymore.'”