USA TODAY - Actress/singer/star Gwyneth Paltrow, in a candid interview with The Mail on Sunday's You magazine, says she was pregnant with a third child.

And, like her good friend, Beyoncé, she lost the child in a miscarriage.

Paltrow, 40, has two children with her husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin - daughter Apple, 8, and son Moses, who turns 7 next month. The kids have told Mom they'd like a sibling.

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"My children ask me to have a baby all the time," she says in the interview. "And you never know, I could squeeze one more in. I am missing my third. I'm thinking about it."

But, she adds, "I had a really bad experience when I was pregnant with my third. It didn't work out and I nearly died. So I am like, 'Are we good here or should we go back and try again?' "

Paltrow says she feels "very broody" whenever she sees Beyoncé with her daughter, Blue Ivy, 1.

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