According to Sharon Stone, she has had nine miscarriages, which she calls “no little thing, physically or emotionally.”

In a comment on a People magazine Instagram post on Tuesday, the 64-year-old “Basic Instinct” actor spoke up about experiencing a miscarriage when her husband and fellow dancer Maks Chmerkovskiy was in Ukraine. Peta Murgatroyd is a veteran of “Dancing With the Stars.”

“We as females don’t have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss,” Stone commented on the post. “I lost nine children by miscarriage. It is no small thing, physically nor emotionally yet we are made to feel it is something to bear alone and secretly with some kind of sense of failure. Instead of receiving the much-needed compassion and empathy and healing which we so need.”

“Female health and wellness left to the care of the male ideology has become lax at best, ignorant in fact, and violently oppressive in effort,” the 64-year-old actress stated.

Roan Joseph Bronstein, 22, Laird Vonne Stone, 17, and Quinn Kelly Stone, 16, are Stone’s three adopted sons.

Instagram users praised the actress, 64, for being honest about her experience. One user said that “Being able to amplify the lived experiences of women is the first step towards creating necessary change.”

“You are brave to share, I stand with you in loss, and am so thankful we can share openly in this generation and hopefully change the narrative for future generations!” another person said.

In a 2017 interview with EXTRATV, Stone previously disclosed that a hereditary blood disorder prohibited her from bringing a child to term.

“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,” she told the publication. “It’s devastating that the medical community is not paying the attention that’s needed.”

The 35-year-old Murgatroyd spoke out about her recent miscarriage in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE. She remembered spending some time in a hospital bed after her 5-year-old son Shai saw her being taken away in an ambulance. Her son’s bedroom floor, entirely immobile after testing positive for coronavirus days earlier, she dialed for assistance.

“I had no strength. I couldn’t open a dishwasher. I couldn’t open the fridge to feed Shai, to get him some toast,” the pro dancer stated. “It got so bad that my breath was starting to be affected. It was really dramatic.”

As the doctor visited Murgatroyd’s room in the hospital, she contacted her husband, who was hundreds of miles away in Ukraine, and put him on speaker phone.

“I thought he was going to reveal some really bad news. I was like, ‘What’s wrong?’ His face dropped,” she recalled of that night in October 2021. “He said, ‘Did you know you were pregnant?’ ”

On the other end of the phone, Chmerkovskiy, 42, began to celebrate. “He heard the doctor say, ‘You’re pregnant,’ ” she remembered. But through his excitement, he misheard the news: Murgatroyd had already lost the baby.

Murgatroyd said that the thought that she “ultimately had no idea” she was pregnant helped her get through the healing process.

She said that she had begun bleeding two days previously but put it down to her menstruation, saying, “I didn’t have that super joyous moment of, ‘I’m pregnant again!’

“I just had the moment of, ‘You lost it.’ ”

Stone said in an interview with BBC’s “Woman’s Hour” last year that she felt a “global sisterhood” with other women who have come up about their challenges, such as Chrissy Teigen and Vanessa Kirby. This was following the publication of Stone’s book, “The Beauty of Living Twice.”

“We’re finally reaching a point in our global sisterhood, where we speak to the issues of loss and heartache and rape and brutalization and all of the things that happened to us and to our bodies, and that our minds and heart have to go through and we’re not carrying the water anymore,” she stated.

“We are not carrying shame that doesn’t belong to us. We are letting it out.”

Miscarriages, as defined by the National Institutes of Health, are losses of pregnancy with a gestational age of under 20 weeks. Up to 10% of clinically confirmed pregnancies and up to 26% of all pregnancies are thought to result in miscarriage. In the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, around 80% of pregnancies end in loss.

An incorrect number of chromosomes in an embryo, problems with the uterus or cervix, or infections are all potential causes of miscarriage. Depending on when and why a miscarriage happens, the symptoms might vary.