Celebrities who’ve opened up about not being able to have children

“I have always been really honest about my struggles with pregnancy. Preeclampsia and placenta accreta are high-risk conditions, so when I wanted to have a third baby, doctors said that it wasn’t safe for my — or the baby’s–health to carry on my own,” she shared on her website in January 2018. “After exploring many options, Kanye and I decided to use a gestational carrier. Although I have used the term surrogate in the past, a gestational carrier is actually the technical term for a woman who carries a baby that she has no biological relationship to. A traditional surrogate donates her egg, is artificially inseminated with the father’s sperm and then carries the baby to term. Since we implanted my fertilized egg in our gestational carrier, our baby is biologically mine and Kanye’s.”

"For me it wasn't a choice; I needed to use a surrogate. But I didn't feel judged. It's more like I felt awkward. Sometimes I feel a little left out when other moms talk about what their birth experience was like, and I fell the loss of not having carried or having been able to carry," she told Yahoo Parenting in October 2015. "In many ways I feel lucky I was able to be so open. There are so many women who are young and have to go through IVF and feel like they can't talk about it, and that's really unfortunate."

In 2018, she revealed that a medical diagnosis might've been the reason behind the miscarriages. "Everyone said, 'You’re a career woman, you’ve prioritized your career, you waited too long and now you’re just too old to have a kid–and that’s on you for wanting a career.' The reality is I actually have adenomyosis," she said according to People.

After she suffered two miscarriages and failed IVF treatments, the longtime couple decided to adopt two children, Ava and Oscar, instead.

She successfully carried her first child, a son named James, but tried for years to get pregnant with no success. She welcomed twins, Tabitha and Marion, through surrogacy but said she felt disappointment for not being able to do it herself. "Yeah, I mean, I couldn’t pretend otherwise,” she said on Access Hollywood. “It would be complicated. It would be odd to have made this choice if I was able to, you know, have successful pregnancies since my son’s birth.”

After adopting her first two children with ex-husband Tom Cruise, Nicole had a baby with her now-husband, Keith Urban. When they tried for a second child, the actress couldn't get pregnant again so they went down the surrogate route. "I think because I've experienced motherhood in so many different ways,. I've experienced adoption, birthing a child and I've experienced surrogacy. I'm like when it comes to it, I just wanna be a momma," she told CNN. "I suppose my maternal instincts and drive has always been there since I was little … and that's a huge driving force of who I am, which is why I probably played it out in so many different ways. I am a mother because I love being a mother."

After a failed IVF treatment, the supermodel decided to go down the surrogacy route, but it was still not easy. "“There are so many stages,” she told People. “It’s like, ‘Okay, it’s a healthy embryo. Okay, it’s month one.’ I was just constantly living on edge until I held him for the first time.”

She made the decision to undergo the procedure, which removed her uterus, after living in pain due to her endometriosis. The actress has been super honest about her desire to be a mom, and about how heartbreaking it is to know she won't be able to carry her own child.

"There are a whole lot of avenues to have a child," Angela told People about her decision to use a surrogate after not being able to get pregnant. "And we were on like the next-to-the-last street."

After trying to get pregnant for years, the Hunger Games star turned to gestational surrogacy to have her two kids. "It helped that other moms had said that once they had their babies, they forgot they were ever pregnant," she told Women's Health in 2012. "So once my focus became the baby and not the pregnancy, it was a very easy decision."

"I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them," the Friends alum told People about her struggles to have a baby. Her and then-husband, David Arquette, eventually welcomed daughter, Coco, and it was because after every failed attempt they would try again. She said they would "bounce back pretty quickly. I don't say it's a walk in the park. But what are you going to do? We just try again."

The actress, who suffers from polycystic ovary syndrome, and husband Greg Wise had a "brutal" experience with in-vitro fertilization when they were trying for their second child after welcoming their first also through IVF. "I would have desperately liked to have had more children and it's been a great agony for me," she told the Daily Mail. "There's been an awful lot of grief to get through in not being able to get pregnant again, but there are thousands and thousands of women like me who can't have children."

"One month ago today, Dec. 26th our amazing beautiful daughter came into this world," she wrote on Instagram. "Feeling so grateful to have her in my arms… after years of fertility struggles I give thanks today to our kind, loving surrogate for carrying her."

Because she couldn't get pregnant on her own, the fitness expert adopted a child and later welcomed a son with her partner, who underwent IVF treatment to get pregnant. "Turns out I had PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome)," she told Redbook. "But at a young age, I didn't know if I wanted kids, so I didn't really care. Then I got older, and I watched friends go through IVF, with years of hormones and devastation and disappointment, and I remember thinking: 'God wants something different for me. If I choose to pursue this path, I'll adopt.'"

The late night TV host and his wife, Nancy Juvonen, had a long journey before becoming parents. "We tried for a long time, for five years. I know people have tried much longer, but if there's anyone out there who is trying and they're just losing hope … just hang in there," he said on the TODAY show. "Try every avenue; try anything you can do, 'cause you'll get there. You'll end up with a family, and it's so worth it. It is the most 'worth it' thing. I'm just so happy right now. I'm freaking out."

"I don’t have children. I’m not going to have kids. I went through early menopause," she revealed to Maria Menounos on her radio show. "My older sister called and was like 'By the way, you should go and get yourself checked because I’m going through menopause early,'" Walsh recalled. "And I’m like, 'You’re just scaring me.' And then yeah, sure enough, I went and they were like 'You have one egg and there’s a hairline fracture. So enjoy it.'"

“At the time, I started processing it. The dude I was with, he was excited, but I was still really, really nervous. But then, eventually, you know that nature takes over. And, sure enough, as soon as I was OK with [the pregnancy], about 8 weeks, I miscarried," she said on The Real. "I just never wanted that feeling again, because I was already afraid. I had so much love for that baby. That’s why I don’t take it lightly. After that, I made sure I would never get pregnant again, because I didn’t want to go through that. I felt like it was a person I was letting down. That’s the reason I don’t have children to this day.”

The TV personality has been open about her struggles to conceive even after undergoing IVF treatments. She was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor in 2017, which made her consider other options. “I need to work with doctors to see if getting pregnant is the smartest thing,” she told People in January 2018. “I do have some kids in the freezer, maybe we’ll implant. But if not, we’ll look into surrogacy.”

The TV personality welcomed son Duke through a surrogate, and they tried again. Sadly, the woman named Daphne miscarried their last two embryos.