10 Celebs Who Had Problems Being Mothers And Overcame Them

Many people dream of having children and starting a family. However, there are numerous couples who suffer from fertility problems and various treatments must be carried out in order to conceive a life. Celebrities can also go through this experience because of different factors like age, health, lifestyle, or just plain bad luck.

Today the awesome.club talks about celebrities who revealed their fertility treatments and the problems they faced to fulfill their dream of motherhood.

In 2009, Céline Dion suffered a miscarriage and went through six failed IVF attempts. But a year later, the singer announced to the press that she was going to be the mother of twins, which for her was a double blessing. At that time, she already had a child conceived thanks to artificial insemination. Céline wanted to expand her family and, despite the bad prognosis, she didn’t give up and managed to become a mother for the second time.

In June 2009, the actress from sex and the city announced the birth of her twins Loretta and Tabitha. Such news caught the attention of the press, as the girls were conceived by a surrogate. Sarah Jessica Parker already had a son with actor Matthew Broderick, so they both wanted to give him a baby sister to expand their family. However, the attempt had failed and, having explored several options, they chose this one to make their dream come true.

Courteney Cox suffered several miscarriages during her early years of marriage to actor David Arquette. However, in the last season of friends, the actress who played Monica, managed to get pregnant. At age 39, she fulfilled her dream of becoming a mother with the birth of her daughter, whom she named Coco Arquette.

In April 2011, Mariah Carey gave birth to twins in a Los Angeles hospital by caesarean section. The pregnancy had not yet been revealed because the singer had already suffered a miscarriage. So he preferred to keep it a secret until birth. Some time later, along with her then-husband, the singer Nick Cannon, the diva participated in the program 20/20, on the ABC TV network. It was then that they revealed the problems they had during their pregnancy. Mariah suffered from high blood pressure for about 30 weeks and had to take medication to keep her children in her belly longer. After strong contractions, she was able to give birth to her babies Monroe and Moroccan.

After marrying Chris Henchy in 2001, actress Brooke Shields spent the first three years in a lot of pain. She tried to get pregnant via IVF and one of those attempts resulted in a miscarriage. However, on May 15, 2004, she gave birth to her daughter Rowan Francis Hammond and from then on she went on to suffer from postpartum depression. Two years later, the diva managed to overcome the problem and give birth to her second daughter, Grier Hammond Henchy.

Emma Thompson is an actress who is characterized as much by her extensive career as her political activism. However, due to the separation from Kenneth Branagh, the famous suffered a period of clinical depression, which could lead to complications in conceiving a child. Some time later, when starting a relationship with actor Greg Wise, his co-worker in Reason and sensibility, Emma underwent treatment and IVF to get pregnant. Finally, at age 39, she had her daughter, Gaia, and managed to overcome obstacles to form a family with Wise.

“It hurts me a lot when people ask me why I don’t have children. They don’t know what I went through,” model and presenter Tyra Banks said in an interview, as she started to shed a few tears out of frustration at not being able to get pregnant. Fortunately, that dream came true in 2016, after Tyra and her husband, photographer Erik Asla, chose to have a child via surrogacy.

In the 1990s, Nicole Kidman adopted two children with her then-husband, actor Tom Cruise. That’s because it was impossible to get pregnant because of miscarriages suffered, as she stated during the filming of The Golden Compass🇧🇷 Later, when she married New Zealand singer Keith Urban, she became pregnant with their first biological child, Sunday Rose. However, when they felt ready for a second baby, they had to turn to surrogacy. Thus was born their second daughter, Faith Margaret.

Mónica Cruz is a dancer and younger sister of actress Penelope Cruz. Mónica dreamed of being a mother since she was 20. However, not finding the “right man”, she chose to perform artificial insemination in 2013, thus having her daughter Antonella Cruz Sánchez. “I don’t wait for anyone, I run my life the way I want and anyone who wants to get on the tram, if it’s worth it, will be welcome,” she told reporters when talking about her family.

Although the media Kim already has four children, few know that she went through a lot of problems to be able to conceive them. Her first two, North and Saint West, were spawned after several attempts to conceive. And, considering the risks she took with both, to the point of almost losing her life, Kim and her husband, Kanye West, opted for a surrogate for the gestation of their last two children, Chicago and Salmo West.

Undoubtedly, these celebrities overcame different obstacles in life to fulfill their dream of having children. Do you know women who have been through a similar situation and managed to overcome it? In your opinion, is the example of these celebrities able to encourage people to move forward? Share your opinion in the comments.