Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson shares heartbreaking story of miscarriage in video

1992: Gymnast Shawn Johnson, the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist, is born in Des Moines, Iowa. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson, in a YouTube video, revealed the heartbreaking story of her recent miscarriage.

The 25-year-old announced her pregnancy on Saturday but suffered a miscarriage two days later.

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"The past 48 hours have been some of the happiest, scariest, and saddest times of my life. We feel like a lot of people go through this, so we wanted to share it," Johnson says in the opening moments of the video.

"It's been an emotional roller coaster," she said. "You go from shock to 'holy crap' to 'I can't do this' to 'let's do this.' And now it's like 'pray to God I can do this.'"

Watch the video blog below:

Shawn Johnson won a silver medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as a gold medal on the balance bean.

Johnson's husband, Andrew East, was in Detroit last week for a work out with the Detroit Lions. 


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