Andrew East and Shawn Johnson are parents to two children — a daughter, Drew Hazel, born in 2019 and a son, Jett James, born in 2021. Their parenthood journey, however, was preceded by a miscarriage in 2017. The couple made the tragic experience public through an emotional video on their YouTube channel.
The pregnancy was an accidental one, a year into their marriage, but Johnson and East embraced it, as she told People. Shortly after Johnson's positive pregnancy tests, she experienced a miscarriage. The event marked a turn in their vlogging style. Up until then, they had been presenting their lives in a "very edited way" to their online family, as Johnson noted. After miscarrying, they "started documenting everything" and sharing more with their viewers.
While East was reportedly hesitant to go down this route, Johnson felt people would be able to connect with what they were putting out. In a video posted to their YouTube channel after the miscarriage, East told his audience, "We're going to be sharing a lot more stuff just because we realized that it helps to share the story." He noted later, "No matter what you're going through, you're not the only one going through it."
