ActressGabrielle Unionand herhusband Dwayne Wadewelcomed a daughter, Kaavia James, in 2018 (viaPopsugar).

“I was not ready to do that.

It was Wade who said, as Union writes, “‘You’ve done enough.'”

Gabrielle Union up close

In March of 2018, she became pregnant.

Although the actress was happy, she also felt so much more about what was finally happening.

She adds, “I’d had so many miscarriages…

Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union

Looking at the screen, I understood how many potential babies I had lost.

That’s why I was crying.

A floodgate of grief and sorrow overcame me, threatened to drown me.”

Gabrielle Union, Dwayne Wade, and Kaavia in 2019

and also, disconnection.”

Union’s essay, adapted from her book “You Got Anything Stronger?”