Alexa PenaVega Shares Heartbreaking Picture From Stillbirth

One yr after the devastating lack of her daughter, Alexa PenaVegais honoring her reminiscence in a deeply private and emotional approach.

Over the weekend, the “Spy Children” star shared a uncooked and heartbreaking picture on Instagram, capturing the second she held her stillborn daughter, Indy Rex PenaVega, within the hospital.

Within the photograph, Alexa PenaVega may be seen tearfully cradling her child lady, a second she described as “probably the most painful” she’s ever skilled.

“This was probably the most painful second I’ve ever skilled,” she wrote within the caption. “I bear in mind it feeling so onerous to breathe. Such a deep aching ache… How was this actual? It didn’t really feel actual. Each emotion flooded in directly.”

Alexa, who shares three different youngsters, Ocean, 8, Kingston, 5, and Rio, 3, together with her husband, actor and singer Carlos PenaVega, mirrored on the combination of sorrow and non secular give up her household skilled within the aftermath of the loss.

“It was all out of our management,” she shared. “We needed to give it throughout to God. The burden was too heavy for us to hold, so He took the burden off of us and draped us in His peace.”

Regardless of the heartbreak, Alexa stated that over the previous yr, she has witnessed sudden magnificence emerge from the tragedy.

“We watched individuals heal due to Indy. We watched grief lifted due to Indy. We watched relationships be restored… God gave her life SO MUCH FRUIT … a lot that means and function,” she wrote. “Our candy lady is celebrating with Jesus at present.”

She added, “And Whereas we nonetheless mourn and want we had her in our arms… we all know she is ready for us in a spot that’s past something we will think about. Jeremiah 29:11.”

The “Sleepover “actress additionally shared a touching black-and-white photograph of her three youngsters holding a framed picture of child Indy.

She wrote over the picture in her Instagram Tales, “Our perpetually world changer [white heart emoji] Joyful heavenly birthday child lady.”

Carlos echoed his spouse’s sentiments by sharing an identical photograph and writing, “Joyful heavenly birthday Indy lady. [white heart emoji] Our little world changer. Psalm 34:18.”

“After a gorgeous and peaceable supply our daughter ‘Indy’ was born at relaxation,” they wrote on the time. “This little lady has already modified our lives in so some ways. She was completely stunning. And regarded identical to daddy. Darkish hair and all.”

Within the weeks that adopted, Alexa opened up in an emotional video, calling the expertise “probably the most traumatic factor” she and Carlos had ever endured.

“I don’t assume I’ve skilled something fairly like this, and I hope to by no means expertise something like this once more,” she stated final Might, including that regardless of the ache, her household had “by no means been stronger.”