‘Kill Bill’ Star Uma Thurman Reveals Her Parents Talked Her Into An Abortion As A Teenager

By Gorup de Besanez - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67874780

Actress Uma Thurman wrote and Op-Ed for the Washington Post in response to the Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks into a pregnancy.  

Thurman explained that her “darkest secret” is the abortion she had in Germany when she was a teenager and that she wrote the piece to support women who “might feel shame that they can’t protect themselves” in similar situations, due to the Texas’ Heartbeat Act. 

“In my late teens, I was accidentally impregnated by a much older man,” the 51-year-old actress shared. “I was living out of a suitcase in Europe, far from my family, and about to start a job, I struggled to figure out what to do. I wanted to keep the baby, but how?” 

Thurman said she phoned her parents to help her decide what her options were, and after listening to their “precise questions” her “childish fantasy of motherhood was soundly corrected.” 

“I was just starting out in my career and didn’t have the means to provide a stable home, even for myself,” the “Gattaca” star said. “We decided as a family that I couldn’t go through with the pregnancy, and agreed that termination was the right choice. My heart was broken nonetheless.”

She got her abortion in Germany, and wrote that every “part of the process hurt,” but she thought she deserved the pain. 

“There is so much pain in this story,” the mother of three went on. “It has been my darkest secret until now. I have no regrets for the path I have traveled…”

“The abortion I had as a teenager was the hardest decision of my life, one that caused me anguish then and that saddens me even now, but it was the path to the life full of joy and love that I have experienced,” she concluded.  

“Choosing not to keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be.” 


Subscribe
Notify of
guest
1 Comment
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
1-Eddie-1
1-Eddie-1
2 years ago

For what does it profit a man to gain the world, but lose your soul?