Alicia Vikander speaks out about ‘painful’ miscarriage with Michael Fassbender

[hewontgo]

"We have a child now, but it took us time"https://t.co/7maSjLW539
- Cosmopolitan UK (@CosmopolitanUK) July 25, 2022
Alicia Vikander and husband, Michael Fassbender, struggled to conceive and suffered a miscarriage before welcoming their one-year-old son together. Some of her roles now feel 'meta', as twice she has signed on to play somebody suffering

Comments

[wintourseason]

do normies in sweden get time off from work when they miscarry? think this is a kind of tonedeaf comment from alicia. plenty of working class people have to continue clocking in while experiencing medical trauma. at least in the US.

[anakisa]

she's living in portugal and you do get full paid time off if you miscarry + more time with medical support if you have depression afterwards

[thispaintedlife]

this is INSANE to me, we really out here in the u.s. settling for the bare minimum! time for a revolution!!

[emmanium]

I'm not Swedish but I think their system is similar to ours in Finland so yes, normal, average people do get time off and plenty of support offered to them.

[iluvpans]

I think we (the United States) are the only fuckers who force people to work even when they're experiencing medical traumas.

[maryjanewatson]

not the only ones, unfortunately. :( certainly not in south america.

[theactualworst]

Last week I literally gave my boss a doctor’s note writing me out of work and he asked me if I really couldn’t work and could I at least work a few hours. It’s so fucked up here.

I’m trying to move back out west to a more liberal state because they at least take that shit seriously.

[ari_angelique]

That makes me angry. He had no right to try and guilt you into working.

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[theactualworst]

PLEASE tell me you sued!!

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[theactualworst]

Ugh that’s crazy that no one would take your case and that they wanted $600 just for a consult!

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[masktaster]

Sadly in Canada it's more similar to the States than Europe, especially lately

[halevy]

I'm in Canada. I took stress leave in February/March and it was a hassle to get it from a doctor. My work was luckily supportive of me, butttt they also play favourites clearly because I know of people who took stress leave whose annual reviews were affected by this or were not supported at all. So it's a toss up between your doctor and work.