{"id":25787,"date":"2026-08-03T03:53:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=25787"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:53:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:53:49","slug":"alex-cooper-responds-after-critic-told-her-not-to-complain-about-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=25787","title":{"rendered":"Alex Cooper Responds After Critic Told Her Not to Complain About Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"adp-vgallery-title\">\n<h2\/>\n<p>Emilia Clarke&#8217;s Brain Aneurysm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/emilia_clarke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Emilia Clarke<\/strong><\/a> filmed battle scenes for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/game_of_thrones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Game of Thrones,<\/em><\/a> but in 2019, she published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/personal-history\/emilia-clarke-a-battle-for-my-life-brain-aneurysm-surgery-game-of-thrones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an essay in <em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/a> titled &#8220;A Battle for My Life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having a bad headache at the gym, &#8220;I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill,&#8221; the actress wrote. &#8220;Meanwhile, the pain\u2014shooting, stabbing, constricting pain\u2014was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The diagnosis was quick and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain,&#8221; the Emmy nominee added. &#8220;I\u2019d had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1338345\/emilia-clarke-says-shes-missing-parts-of-her-brain-after-surviving-2-aneurysms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aneurysm<\/a>, an arterial rupture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emilia had immediate surgery to seal the aneurysm, calling the pain &#8220;unbearable.&#8221; While she was recovering, she continued, she experienced aphasia and was &#8220;muttering nonsense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A week later, &#8220;the aphasia passed,&#8221; Emilia added, and she left the hospital a month after being admitted. <\/p>\n<p>At a 2013 brain scan, she learned a growth &#8220;doubled in size&#8221; and that she needed surgery again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When they woke me, I was screaming in pain,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;The procedure had failed. I had a massive bleed and the doctors made it plain that my chances of surviving were precarious if they didn\u2019t operate again. 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