Shay Mitchell Reveals She Had a Miscarriage in 2018

[MUSIC] My name is Mat Sanders with Consort Design and we helped redesign Shay Mitchell's guest house, YouTube studio, and work space. I'm Shay Mitchell and we're here in my guest house that I've been working with with Wayfair and Consort. It's been a really really fun process. I'm so excited about the outcome of it that now I'm wanting to spend more time in my guest house than my actual house even though that is getting designed too. What excites me the most is that this space is so functional. I have so many different areas and it really embodies who I am. I wanted a room that I could really use every little pocket of, and this is exactly what I had in mind, plus. When we first started working with Shea, it was with decorating her entire house, and then she had this second guest house in her backyard. We pulled from Wayfair because of the extensive amount of product that was available to us. Shay really wanted this to feel like a collected place that really told the story of her personality. We focused on high contrast, bold statement makers, like the charcoal sofa. We then moved into rugs to kind of layer in a nice jute texture. The office bunk room came equipped with this platform bed. So we tiled the entire room in black and white Moroccan tile and created a blush, French mattress. [MUSIC] Thanks to Wayfair, we were really able to have access to all kinds of things to really instantly inject that Personal touch into the space. To actually see it come to fruition is something really cool. So I'm gonna just keep adding to my new pinboard and see what happens. [MUSIC] [BLANK_AUDIO]

Though social media tends to paint a different picture, 2018 wasn’t the best year ever for every person on your feed.

Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell posted a massive Instagram story on Tuesday detailing all of her personal wins throughout the year — and there were many: she traveled around the world (Qatar, Arizona, Hong Kong, you name it), hit 20 million followers, starred alongside fellow teen soap alum Penn Badgley in You, kissed a lot of babies, and also just got to be really tan and gorgeous all year long. But Mitchell, 31, is the first to admit that with every high comes a low.

Despite all the good 2018 brought the actress, she also grappled with some serious heartbreak. Toward the end of her story, Mitchell shared a photo of a sonogram accompanied by a broken heart emoji.

“We all have to deal with various struggles and challenges in life. And sometimes it’s easier to only showcase the good times on social media, which is what leads many people to criticize it for its lack of authenticity,” she wrote in the next slide.

“Having so many people follow me on Instagram and read my posts is both incredibly humbling and hugely uplifting. The support and affection that so many of you show me lifts me up during even my darkest days, one of which happened last year after I miscarried and lost the child of my hopes and dreams,” she continued.

This isn’t the first time Shay has addressed the fallacy of social media.

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“I think we all have to realize and recognize the fact that Instagram and social media in general is, a majority of the time, our highlight reel—it’s certainly my highlight reel,” she told InStyle last May. "It can get really dangerous if you start to believe that [social media is] realistic. If you can go into it knowing there’s filters behind each and every one of those, or this is a photo that was professionally shot, then I feel like it allows yourself to be less harsh on your own photos. Everybody’s life in general isn’t maybe always what it seems.”