Being a mother is one of the most rewarding experiences one can have. The truth is that becoming a mother isn’t always a simple endeavor, and it’s often fraught with difficulties and grief. Many women, for example, have difficulty getting pregnant owing to reproductive difficulties and have to undergo painful and emotionally draining IVF treatments or other procedures. Many celebrities have encountered this problem in the past, but now they are mothers.
The following is a compiled list of famous women who had difficulty conceiving, but ultimately were successful in doing so. This list is intended to encourage and provide hope to all of the women who are having difficulty conceiving.
1. Chrissy Teigen
Supermodel Chrissy Teigen and her husband, musician John Legend, have been struggling for 5 years to conceive. They wanted it happened naturally, but they only realized their aspirations of becoming parents owing to IVF injections. In 2015, the couple’s efforts paid off, and they became pregnant.
2. Anne Hathaway
Because Anne Hathaway’s journey to get pregnant was so difficult and drawn long, she started to feel uncomfortable whenever she came into contact with a pregnant woman. When she announced that she was pregnant on Instagram, she also stated that the road leading up to that point had not been easy for her. She spoke out in an interview with the Daily Mail on how heartbreaking it had been for her to go through the fertility process and how devastated she felt as a result.
3. Courteney Cox
Courteney Cox has spoken out about her experience, which is similar to that of a lot of other women who have had many miscarriages. She said that she had an easy time becoming pregnant, but that she struggled to carry the pregnancy to term. She was the first to confess that the procedure is not straightforward, but both she and her husband had no other option than to keep trying. She became pregnant with her daughter Coco after undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment, which she described as a “nerve-wracking” experience.
4. Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie became a mother for the first time on August 5, 2001, when she adopted Maddox from Cambodia. Jolie and her ex-husband Brad Pitt had their first biological child, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, four years later. They went on to adopt more amazing kids. However, the couple’s most recent twins, Knox and Vivienne, were conceived via the process of in vitro fertilization because the pair had grown tired of waiting and wanted to increase the size of their family.
5. Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey has said that she had a miscarriage before to being pregnant with her twins Moroccan and Monroe when she was 40 years old. She added that in order to lower the chance of miscarriage by fifty percent, she was required to take progesterone for ten weeks.
6. Kim Kardashian
Even without trying, Kim was able to conceive her first kid, North West, with ease. Her second pregnancy, however, proved difficult, so she began IVF therapy.
Kanye West, her ex-husband, and the TV reality star were ready to have another kid. She chose to try IVF after a year of unsuccessful efforts to increase her odds of having another child. Saint, the couple’s kid, was born as a result of the couple’s efforts.
7. Tyra Banks
Tyra confessed that she expected to have children in three years, when she was 24 years old. However, things did not proceed as planned.
She discovered how unhappy she was since she didn’t have children until she was 40. That’s when she decided to try IVF in the hopes of becoming pregnant. York, her son, was born in 2016 to her and her partner Erik Asla.
8. Amy Schumer
The comedian is renowned for being upfront about her struggles with IVF when trying to conceive their son, Gene, with her husband Chris Fischer, where they retrieved 35 eggs from her. She’s also lately come up about having the therapy again in order to give their kid a sibling. She expressed her frustration about the whole process and her decision to end it.
9. Brooke Shields
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After a loss and numerous failed rounds of in vitro fertilization, Brooke Shields attempted one more round of IVF at the age of 36, according to Fertility Today. She got pregnant in 2002 and gave birth to Rowan in 2003, proving that her final try was successful. In 2006, she gave birth to a second daughter without using IVF. She told out about how difficult the process was, as well as other difficulties including postpartum depression and more, in her book Down Came the Rain.
