From Chrissy Teigan to Hugh Jackman, these Celebrities Talk About Infertility and Raise Awareness
Getting real about infertility can be hard for anyone but when it comes to celebrities, the pressure is on. So we applaud the celebrities who are talking about infertility and providing a source of inspiration and often a bit of comic relief when it comes to their family building.
Chrissy Teigan Tells it Like it Is
Most recently, supermodel Chrissy Teigan opened up about gender selection and her choice to select a female embryo (a medical procedure Shady Grove Fertility only performs when medically indicated) but over the years, Chrissy has been an open book throughout her struggles with infertility. She admits how long her journey to conceive has been on FABLife, “I would say, honestly, [that] John and I were having trouble. We would have had kids five, six years ago if it had happened, but my gosh, it’s been a process.”
Chrissy also reminds people to mind their own business when it comes to someone else’s family planning, “I can’t imagine being that nosy, like, ‘When are the kids coming?’ because who knows what somebody’s going through, who knows if somebody’s struggling?”
Chrissy’s co-host of the FabLife, supermodel Tyra Banks, echos her sentiment, “Whether they want to have a child or don’t ever want to have a child or may have a child on the way, it’s none of your business, okay? Until somebody wants to make it your business. I am so tired of seeing on my social media, ‘Why don’t you have kids? Why don’t you have kids?’ You don’t know. You don’t know what I’m going through.”
Kim Kardashian-West on Egg Freezing and Secondary Infertility
The Kardashian klan is very open about many things, including their fertility. Prior to having baby North, Kim was planning on freezing her eggs, “I’m glad that I’m freezing my eggs. I think now I can just be proactive, but I want to make sure when the time is right, I want to be prepared. I should be safe.”
Kim found out she was pregnant prior to completing her egg freezing treatment, but all was not so smooth when trying for baby number two. After complications from her previous pregnancy and delivery, including placenta accreta, Kim wasn’t sure if she would be able to conceive, so she sought the help of a fertility specialist. “I would go to the doctor in Beverly Hills every day at 5 in the morning to get tested to see if I was ovulating. I was trying everything: I did acupuncture and got a nutritionist to eat healthier.”
Jaime King, Hugh Jackman, and Trisha Sutter Dealing with the Emotions of Infertility and Miscarriages
Jaime King suffered through 5 long years of infertility treatment and five miscarriages prior to the birth of her first son. “I felt so ashamed. Everyone who goes through it feels that way, no matter where they’re from. I was in severe pain all the time, emotionally and physically. I felt so broken. Women are supposed to bear children, and I couldn’t.”
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Hugh Jackman and his wife had a long journey to parenthood as well. He opened up on the Today Show, “We did IVF and Deb had a couple of miscarriages. I’ll never forget it, the miscarriage thing—it happens to one in three pregnancies, but it’s very, very rarely talked about. It’s almost secretive, so I hope Deb doesn’t mind me bringing it up now. It’s a good thing to talk about it. It’s more common and it is tough. There’s a grieving that you have to go through.”
And Trisha Sutter of the Bachelorette fame shares, “When you get married, you believe, ‘Okay, the next natural thing is to have babies.’ When that doesn’t happen, you start to question your relationship; you start to question yourself, even God. It’s a very difficult thing to not be able to do anything about making a dream of yours come true and questioning whether something is wrong with you. So, that was definitely a dark time in my life.”
Overcoming Infertility
Infertility doesn’t discriminate and affects one in eight couples. However, there is now a range of infertility treatments available to help nearly everyone conceive. To learn more about diagnosing and treating infertility, call Shady Grove Fertility’s New Patient Center at 1-877-971-7755 or request an appointment online.
