“I’vehada roller-coasterride with
fertility,” the Aussie actress told
Australia’s 60 Minutes. “It’s never
been easy for me.”
Nicole (52) has battled infertility
most of her adult life and, has “done
all the stuff you can possibly do to
try get pregnant”, as she puts it.
During her first marriage to actor
Tom Cruise (now 57) she struggled
to conceive and the couple eventu-
ally adopted Isabella (now 26) and
Connor (24). Nicole suffered an
ectopic pregnancy during the
marriage and a miscarriage in the
last months of the union in 2001.
The Big Little Lies star tried
again to get pregnant after marry-
ing Australian singer Keith Urban
(now 51) in 2006 and after several
rounds of IVF their daughter
Sunday was born in 2008 – the
child Nicole called “the miracle of
my life”. Their second daughter,
Faith, was born via a surrogate in
2011 after IVF failed.
Nicole was 43 by then, and under-
going IVF when you’re over the age
of 40, especially if using your own
eggs, is known to have a lower
chance of success.
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Julianne is unable to
fall pregnant naturally
because of severe endo-
metriosis.
The Dirty Grandpa
star says her ultimate
mission is to maintain
a public dialogue and
spread positivity to
any one going through
something similar.
“I have nothing to be
ashamed of. I’m here to
debunk beliefs that there’s
something wrong with
you or that you can’t do
something.”
TheBritishactresswasone of
the earliest advocates of fertili-
ty treatment, opening up about
her two miscarriages and subse-
quent IVF treatment during her
fourth marriage, to US actor and
producer James Keach (now 71).
Jane was 45 when she wel-
comed twin sons John and
Kristopher in 1995.
“It wasemotionallya major
roller coaster,”TheKominskyMethod star says. “I tell anyone
who tries to do it that on paper
it looks easy, but in reality it’s
hard. I had pre-eclampsia, which
often happens when you have
a late pregnancy. But the boys
turned out great.”
Jane (68) detailed her inferti-
lity journey in her 2001 book,
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