 Nonetheless, because if a hip deformity, he had difficulty of movement.Initially, Marie Antoinette dismissed the boasting and assured her mother that a consummation of his marriage “would need a miracle”; years later the Savoyard ambassador to France reported that there was never a question of a physical union between them, while Marie Joséphine herself reported in February 1772 that she was quite sure she was not pregnant “and it’s not my fault.” Louis Stanislas reportedly proclaimed his wife to be pregnant merely to spite Louis Auguste and Marie Antoinette, who had not yet consummated their marriage.Marie Joséphine reportedly suffered a miscarriage in 1774.