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How YouTuber Star Mr. Kate Ended Up in a Coma After Giving Birth to 2nd Baby
Jul 18, 2025
YouTube star Kate Albrecht ended up in a coma two weeks after she and husband Joey Zehr welcomed their second baby.
The couple, who are famously the faces of the Mr. Kate DIY YouTube channel, recalled their experience nearly two months after their daughter Mars was born.
“I was so tired and so sore. I felt like, ‘Wait, this is supposed to be easier. I’m supposed to recover from a natural childbirth easier than a surgery,’ but I was bedridden,” Albrecht, 42, told People in an interview published on Friday, July 18, noting that she started getting intense migraines.
Albrecht recalled being at home with a family friend, who put her to bed — but she has no further memories of the day her illness worsened.
“I walk into the room, and Kate’s lying in bed with blood coming out of her mouth and clearly unconscious,” Zehr, 43, recalled. “So, I immediately jump on the bed and yell at her, and she won’t wake up.”
He added, “Then Kate started having seizures in the room, which was terrible to watch.”
Zehr said he was “f***ing freaking out,” especially after Albrecht was put into a medically induced coma. She was woken up the next morning after several tests had been run.
Albrecht was ultimately diagnosed with eclampsia, which are “seizures that occur in pregnant women with preeclampsia,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.
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