Actress and fashion entrepreneur, Gabrielle Union has revealed details about her struggle to get pregnant and how captive she feels by the process in
Actress and fashion entrepreneur, Gabrielle Union has revealed details about her struggle to get pregnant and how captive she feels by the process in her upcoming new memoir, ‘We Are Going To Need More Wine’, to be launched later this month.
Gabrielle admits she didn’t think she wanted to have children when she married her husband, Dwayne Wade of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, in August 2014. But her feelings began to change after she started raising one of his nephews and his three children from previous relationships.
“I never wanted kids. Then I became a stepmom, and there was no place I’d rather be than with them. I have had eight or nine miscarriages. For three years, my body has been a prisoner of trying to get pregnant. I’ve either been about to go into an IVF cycle, in the middle of an IVF cycle, or coming out of an IVF cycle,” the 44 year old ‘Being Mary Jane’ star says.
Referring to the side effects of the hormone injections that are part of the IVF treatment, Gabrielle Union said, “Once a month I look like I’m in my second trimester because I’m bloated. It leads to the questions and it leads to the rumors by the media and anytime I go into a doctor’s office I feel like I’m a member of SEAL Team Six undercover because I don’t want people to speculate.”
Union has been open in the past with her fertility struggles felt sharing details of her intimate secrets would help change the way people approach the topic.
“For so many women, and not just women in the spotlight, people feel very entitled to know, ‘Do you want kids?’. A lot of people, especially people that have fertility issues, just say no because that’s a lot easier than being honest about whatever is actually going on. People mean so well, but they have no idea the harm or frustration it can cause.”
