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Lucille Ball's hidden baby drama with husband Desi Arnaz revealed... after suffering two miscarriages

The flame-haired funnywoman was so excited about becoming a mother that she picked her favorite baby names in 1943, but she wouldn't welcome her first child for another eight years

Lucille Ball was so excited about the prospect of becoming a mother that she picked her favorite baby names in 1943, but she wouldn't welcome her first child until 11 years after marrying Desi Arnaz and suffering two heartbreaking miscarriages. she told the nurse, using the name she believed that she and Desi had agreed on if the baby was a girl, after Lucy's good friend, the young actress Susan Peters, who had been paralyzed from the waist down in a duck-shooting accident,' Purdum wrote in his 368-page tome. Lucille Ball (R, pictured in 1949) was so excited about the prospect of becoming a mother that she picked her favorite baby names in 1943, but she wouldn't welcome her first child until 11 years after marrying Desi Arnaz (L) and suffering two heartbreaking miscarriages

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