Celebrity Parents Meghan McCain Describes Daughter Liberty's Unique Habit That Comes Straight from John McCain Meghan McCain and husband Ben Domenech welcomed their first baby, daughter Liberty Sage, in September 2020 By Georgia Slater Georgia Slater Georgia Slater is an associate editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has previously appeared in USA Today and Washington Life Magazine. People Editorial Guidelines Published on January 14, 2022 12:46PM EST From left: John and Meghan McCain. Photo: Heidi Gutman /Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Meghan McCain sees a piece of her late father John McCain in her little girl. In this week's episode of PEOPLE's podcast Me Becoming Mom, the 37-year-old reveals that her 15-month-old daughter Liberty Sage has one of the same habits as her dad John, who died on Aug. 25, 2018, after lengthy treatment for brain cancer. "So this is very strange ... DNA and genes are strange," Meghan begins. "[Liberty] does this thing with her hands, and [my dad] used to do that all the time. I don't do it. I don't know where it comes from but she does it even now." " I told my mother-in-law it creeps me out when she does it because it's this tic my dad used to do with his hands," adds Meghan, who shares daughter Liberty with husband Ben Domenech. "So it's stuff like that, but I loved my dad and I love my mother in a way that's the way I think a lot of people love their parents, they're the people that raised you," she continues. "And with my dad in particular, he was just so much for so much of my life in so many different ways. But with my daughter, it's just pure. She's perfection." Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Meghan McCain Remembers Dad John McCain on 3-Year Anniversary of His Death: 'Love You Forever' Elsewhere in the interview, Meghan opens up about her miscarriage, calling it one of the "darkest times" in her life. "It's like every sense in my body was overwhelmed and then I was heartbroken," she says. She first publicly revealed in a New York Times op-ed in July 2019 that she had been pregnant with a daughter but subsequently suffered a miscarriage. She called the loss a "horrendous experience" at the time, adding that she "would not wish it upon anyone." Meghan Mccain. Meghan McCain/Instagram The 12-episode weekly Me Becoming Mom podcast explores the various roads to motherhood through different interviews with both celebrity guests and experts in the field. Topics on the show include IVF, adoption, surrogacy, single parenthood, same-sex couples, home births, pregnancy loss, unexpected and surprising birth stories, among other subjects. Guests on the show include Allyson Felix, Hoda Kotb, Jillian Michaels, Shawn Johnson East and more.