using acupuncture and fertility treatments to get pregnant.
5. Michelle Obama
Yes, even the former First Lady has had infertility issues.
“I felt like I failed, because I didn’t know how common miscarriages were because we don’t talk about them,” Michelle Obama said on “Good Morning America”. “We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken. So, that’s one of the reasons why I think it’s important to talk to young mothers about the fact that miscarriages happen, and the biological clock is real.”
Her daughters Malia and Sasha, were born through IVF after she experienced some issues conceiving. “I realized that as I was 34 and 35,” she said in the interview. “We had to do IVF.”
6. Angela Basset
Angela Basset struggled with fertility treatments for seven years.
“I was devastated when it didn’t happen [again and again],” Basset shared with Oprah Winfrey. “I had to remain hopeful and resilient and, ‘Okay, let’s do it again.'”
She and her husband Courtney B. Vance welcomed fraternal twins, Bronwyn and Slater, in 2006 via surrogate.
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7. Tia Mowry-Hardrict
Tia Mowry-Hardrict was diagnosed with endometriosis at the age of 27, which made it difficult to conceive.
After going through two surgeries and a major diet change, she was able to give birth to her son Cree in 2011. However, she and her husband Cory Hardrict struggled with infertility for seven years after that before giving birth to their daughter Cairo in 2018.
“I didn’t think I’d be able to have a second child, and it’s been over seven years since my first pregnancy,” Mowry-Hardrict told People. “I put it off, but I did want to have another child. I didn’t let my infertility issues define me or define what my goals were and what I wanted out of life. We did try for a long time. It was hard. But I didn’t give up.”
8. Beyoncé
Beyoncé is mother to Blue Ivy Carter (10) and twins Sir and Rumi Carter (5). But before giving birth to them she experienced miscarriages.
“Success looks different to me now. I learned that all pain and loss is in fact, a gift. Having miscarriages taught me that I had to mother myself before I could be a mother to someone else,” she said in a 2020 interview. “Then I had Blue, and the quest for my purpose became so much deeper. I died and was reborn in my relationship, and the quest for self became even stronger.”