Amanda Knox: Sentenced to Infertility

Written By Lora Shahine, MD

What happens when the most fertile years of your life are taken from you? How do you rebuild when trauma collides with your deepest hopes for motherhood? What does it mean to pursue fertility after prison? 

In this powerful episode of Brave & Curious, you’ll hear Dr. Lora Shahine’s conversation with Amanda Knox who spent four years in an Italian prison and eight years fighting a wrongful murder conviction. Amanda has turned her pain into purpose. 

With the recent release of her groundbreaking miniseries on Hulu ‘The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox’, she sheds light on an often overlooked consequence of incarceration: the profound impact on women’s reproductive health. 

In this conversation with Dr. Shahine, Amanda shares her journey through miscarriage, the emotional weight of delayed motherhood, and the stigma women face when fertility collides with trauma and injustice.

In this episode you’ll hear:

[0:50] Amanda Knox's Background and Wrongful Conviction

[1:34] The impact of incarceration

[4:27] Amanda’s fertility journey & personal struggles

[7:36] A new beginning with  Christopher Robinson

[14:51] Amanda's miscarriage experience

[17:04] Reflections on miscarriage and fertility

Learn more about Amanda Knox, her books, podcasts, and projects at amandaknox.com

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Lora Shahine, MD

Dr. Lora Shahine, reproductive endocrinologist at Pacific NW Fertility and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, completed her residency in OBGYN at the University of California in San Francisco and fellowship in reproductive endocrinology at Stanford University. She is dedicated to educating and advocating for increased awareness of infertility, miscarriage, and the impact on environmental toxins on health through an active social media presence, teaching, clinical research, and authoring multiple blogs and books including best selling, ‘Not Broken: An Approachable Guide to Miscarriage and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss.’

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