Chrissy Teigen, Gabrielle Union, and More Women Who Are Bravely Sharing Their Fertility Struggles
By Vogue,
Vogue
| 10. 04. 2017
Chrissy Teigen is nothing if not candid—a quality that the model turned chef and television host is both adored and often berated for. Which is why it comes as no surprise that, in a newly published interview online, she openly discussed that she and her husband, John Legend, are attempting to have a second child through in vitro fertilization.
Following the birth of her daughter, Luna, also conceived by IVF, the process will use one of Teigen’s frozen embryos, the last remaining from the batch of three that she, Legend, and her doctor hand-selected for the ultimate health of the baby and success of her pregnancy. On the celebrity scale, Teigen has been unprecedentedly honest about the struggles of motherhood—from conception to postpartum depression, becoming an unofficial public advocate for IVF, as well as for the right to choose the sex of her first baby. “Not only am I having a girl, but I picked the girl from her little embryo,” she said in an interview before Luna was born, setting off a Twitter debate among critics...
Related Articles
By Emily Beitiks, Guest Contributor
| 02.09.2024
The 1932 kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son was called the “crime of the century” at the time, and has inspired more and less plausible theories about what really happened ever since. The San Francisco Chronicle has recently covered a new wave of interest in the case, based on retired judge Lise Pearlman’s 2020 book that builds on a theory that’s been around for decades: that the celebrity aviator himself was implicated, and the man executed for the...
By Leigha McReynolds, Tor | 09.19.2023
The 2011 X-Men franchise prequel, X-Men: First Class, briefly featured a mutant named Darwin who could adapt to any circumstances. For example, when he stuck his head in a fish tank he grew gills. Now if you’re a history...
By Kelly Hayes, Truthout | 07.20.2023
It’s really important for people to understand what this bundle of ideologies is, because it’s become so hugely influential, and is shaping our world right now, and will continue to shape it for the foreseeable future,” says philosopher and historian...
By Nick Schager, The Daily Beast | 06.23.2023
Poster for King of Clones (Netflix documentary) via Wikipedia
Cloning is, at heart, about the fear of death and the desire to defeat it. Consequently, biologist and researcher Dr. Hwang Woo-suk’s breakthroughs in the field made him not only a...