Chrissy Teigen on Sharing Her Infertility Struggle: ‘It Didn’t Feel Right to Tweet’ About My IVF Shots

I really think a lot of these cases can be attributed to stress. Our lives are so much more stressful than they used to be. They are traveling all the time, shoots, shows, work commitments. I would try taking a half of a year off from all of that and then try IVF. If you are rich enough you can just loaf for six months no problem.

Obviously neither of you have ever struggled with getting pregnant. People always say, “maybe you need to be less stressed, put on more weight, stop trying so hard, etc”. Guess what. I’m not stressed and normal weight and struggled for almost 2 years. It’s not always so easy and when you act like “oh if you just did this or that you’ll get pregnant” it’s hurtful and insulting. If only it was that easy– a lot more women would be pregnant!

Please, refrain from giving unrequested advice to infertile couples. There’s a number of medical reason why a man or a woman has difficulties conceiving a baby. Treating this issue in a casual manner is cruel to those of us who want a family, like everybody else. I heard, endlessly, that if I “just relax, eat healthy, have some wine, forget about it, when you least expect it, it will happen, for sure”. I have low quality eggs, so it is in God’s hands, nobody else’s.

That is why infertility is rarely discussed in public. To other people dealing with infertility, I recommend to only discuss it with people who love you very much.

I agree with others. Please refrain from assuming or giving advice. I’ve had inexperienced doctors tell me I’m too thin or maybe it’s stress. The good thing is that these women can afford the treatments. Insurance doesn’t cover these types of treatments which really says a great deal about our insurance companies and governments.

guest- Didn’t you read the article? Chrissy said it felt “weird” keeping the secret and that she also hadn’t planned on sharing. Sometimes stuff just comes out! Anyway, I wish both women the best, and urge them to think about adoption as well. 🙂

Her honesty really touched me. I am pregnant now but it took 2 yrs to get here and it was so hard emotionally. Every time I would be asked my heart would break a little more. So having woman address the issue and shed light on this subject is warming. Don’t ask about someone else’s reproductive timeline! It’s no ones business!

Nice to know some people actually have friends who care to keep privileged information to themselves vs. trying to find a stealth way of being a paid “source” to a story that is nobody’s business! This kind of thing is BEYOND PERSONAL!

This situation is extremely stressful to keep going through and I am so beyond amazed that they are fortunate enough to have people in their lives who actually know what support is vs. trying to bring attention to themselves in a passive aggressive way by being nice to their face but gossiping behind their backs for attention and money or just the attention.

I wish them their dream soon!

She’s 29 and they are both otherwise healthy and in good shape. I see this as more of a PR, get off my back type response to her actually never planning on getting pregnant. She’s way too interested in her appearance to allow her body to get pregnant. Much easier to just say, “hey, I can’t get pregnant, I’m having xyz probs, then to admit she doesn’t want to and get the public off her back.”

She feels right not keeping it in private, she is living for spotlight.

Wow she looks gorgeous in that white dress.

I understand we need to KNOW everything today about celebrities BUT this IS personal!!

As someone who has been in a relationship for 16 yrs and married almost 11 with NO babies YES, I UNDERSTAND!! Also since we love children and I was once a preschool teacher; it still is asked often. I also have a crew like Chrisy, we have a wonderful group of ppl around us that protect us!!

There are SO many reasons WHY and it’s amazing how many women stay mum about them. All I so is STOP the assumptions, Shaming and Guilt you out on women!! It’s already there, (although try not too) have those feelings… Please don’t add to it!! Just don’t!! So when you g to comment on something you haven’t experienced before, please in this situation don’t. It’s too hard. Thank you.

Annonymous- I’m right there with you. Same exact struggle. Went through four cycles of IUI that were unsuccessful and now am doing the IVF thing. It wasn’t because I can’t relax or because of my weight, sometimes these things just happen. I feel for Chrissy. It’s a frustrating, sometimes humiliating and really painful (both physically… my gosh: the migraines! and emotionally) process.

So many more people are infertile now a days.. Why is every one infertile???

I have been struggling to get pregnant for over 4 yrs with my husband. The only time I did get pregnant 6 years ago when we were dating, I miscarried. I was formally diagnosed with pcos in 2014 when I was only 24 and my husband was 25. Since then I’ve tried dieting, exercising, clomid, progesterone cream, acupuncture, and nothing!! It’s really hurtful when people ask you when you’re going to start a family or assume that you don’t have kids because you don’t want to. Then to top it all off insurance companies don’t cover infertility procedures! Basically I have to either wait until God sends me a miracle or go to Mexico to get ivf because apparently an iui wouldn’t be good for me because my problem isn’t that I’m infertile, but that my follicles don’t mature!!! This is the hardest struggle I’ve ever had to deal with in my life because it makes me feel like I’m less of a woman because I can’t even get pregnant. It also kills me to see on the news when people hurt or kill their kids, which makes me angry with God because it’s like why can those demons have kids and I can’t?!!! I don’t want to be angry with God, but I’m only human and dealing with infertility is something that has brought me to dark thoughts I’ve never had before. I’ve even gotten to the point where I seriously told my husband to divorce me, so he can find someone else and start a family, but I’m blessed with a good husband who has stuck by my side even when I wanted to give up hope. I still have hope and pray God will bless us with a family soon before I go nuts!