National Enquirer Stoops with Kelly Preston “Miscarriage”

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3:00 pm, July 3rd, 2010

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John Travolta and Kelly Preston have suffered too much actual heartbreak to put up with the manipulative and shameful “reporting” of the National Enquirer.

“Travolta’s wife Miscarriage Drama” blares the tab’s cover over a photo of the couple. Inside, the headline reads, “John & Kelly’s Miscarriage Heartbreak!”

Given that Travolta and Preston lost their teenage son Jett last year, any serious threat to the health of their unborn baby would be especially tragic.

The Enquirer knows this, which is why it cynically trumpets a “miscarriage heartbreak” that’s completely fabricated.

Preston and Travolta “pleaded for the lives of their unborn twins” after a “painful miscarriage scare” in Brazil, according to “insiders” for the Enquirer.

(For the record, Preston is not pregnant with twins, as reported by the Enquirer. She and Travolta are expecting one baby.)

Anyway, the tab reports that the “crisis” occurred in Rio de Janeiro, where Preston “began to experience abdominal discomfort and became woozy” before returning to the Hotel Fasano.

Her ordeal is described as “terrifying” and a “nightmare” that led Preston to “clutch her stomach” and beg, “Please save my baby!”

It’s painful to read. We wonder how painful it was for the Enquirer to write. Because after sounding the “miscarriage heartbreak” alarm on an already grieving couple, the tabloid’s “insider” claims the whole thing was “severe indigestion.”

That’s right, “indigestion.” Fortunately, there was no actual miscarriage scare.

To explain (or rather mask) its sensationalism, the Enquirer trots out medical experts to say that hot weather and Preston’s age can elevate the chances of premature labor and other health risks. Of course, the argument is entirely speculative.

This isn’t the first time the Enquirer has manipulated readers with alarming reports of allegedly threatened pregnancies. Last August, the tab announced Mariah Carey‘s “miscarriage drama,” a (fortunately) misleading story that created tragedy out of thin air.

Gossip Cop is happy to hear that Preston’s pregnancy is okay, and disgusted with the Enquirer‘s continued stains on basic decency.

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