‘Is This My Fault?’ ‘Fox & Friends’ Co-Host Shares Painful Path to Motherhood

Ainsley Earhardt, co-host of the television morning show “Fox & Friends,” shares her unexpected road to motherhood in a White Chair film from storytelling organization I Am Second.

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As a girl growing up in small-town South Carolina, Earhardt was captivated by televised events like the Oscars, and she knew she was meant for an on-screen career. She graduated with a degree in journalism and went on to anchor for some of the state’s top broadcasts. In 2007, she moved to New York to begin her career at a national level. Everything was as she had hoped.

“I was a planner,” she explains. “I had a whole life planned out—what I was going to do, how I was going to get to New York, what internships I was going to do and what the stepping stones were going to be. But when I started trying to have children, I was not successful.”

When Earhardt finally got pregnant after a long period of trying, she was ecstatic to see this crucial part of her life plan coming to fruition. But as her pregnancy progressed, what should have been a routine ultrasound appointment instead revealed the greatest tragedy she would ever experience: The doctor couldn’t find a heartbeat.