People USA – July 29, 2019

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On July 13, 1985, music’s biggest stars united for Live Aid,

the concert—held in Philadelphia and London—that raised

money to alleviate the Ethiopian famine. People was

backstage at the event, where Madonna (on the cover with

Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Hall & Oates and the Rolling Stones)

held court with then-fiancé Sean Penn in the U.S. Phil Collins

hopped on the Concorde with Cher to join them, while

Princess Diana and Prince Charles opened the show in the U.K. More than 30 years

later, Rami Malek re-created Queen’s show-stopping set in Bohemian Rhapsody.

this

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July 29, 1985

Stars Align at Live Aid

Dylan Dreyer has learned the

hard way that pregnancy

doesn’t always go as planned.

In April the Today show meteo-

rologist and coanchor shared

her struggle with secondary

infertility, revealing she was

having difficulty con-

ceiving again after

easily getting preg-

nant with son Calvin,

now 2, and had expe-

rienced a miscarriage

last winter.

Following surgery to remove

extensive scarring in her uterus

from her emergency C-section

delivery of Calvin, Dreyer and

her husband, Brian Fichera, 32,

were ready to begin in vitro fer-

tilization, especially once

Dreyer learned time was not on

her side. “I was running low on

eggs, so I wanted to do IVF

while I still had that option,”

Dreyer, 37, explains. She learned

how to administer the shots

and medications involved.

Then in early May she was

awaiting a call with blood test

results from her doctor, David

Reichman of the Weill Cornell

Center for Reproductive Medi-

cine, to tell her she could begin

injections that evening. Instead

he called with different news.

“He said, ‘Well, you can’t

start IVF because you’re

already pregnant!’ ” Dreyer

says. “We couldn’t

believe it!” Now in her

second trimester,

Dreyer will be wel-

coming another little

boy this winter and is

grateful for every day

of her pregnancy. “He’s con-

tinuing to grow, he’s

healthy, and we feel so

blessed,” Dreyer says.

She credits her preg-

nancy success to Dr.

Reichman’s surgery to

remove her uterine scar

tissue—but says there was

another factor. “By putting

my story out there, I feel

like the thousands of

prayers and good wishes we

received really made a dif-

ference,” she says. “I knew it

was in God’s hands, and this

is certainly an answered

prayer.” —KATE COYNE

A Today Host’s

Miracle Pregnancy

‘THIS IS THE

BEST SECRET

WE COULD

HAVE POSSIBLY

BEEN KEEPING’

—DYLAN DREYER

Dylan Dreyer

Growing

Family

Dreyer with

Fichera and son

Calvin in April.

Below, with her

onscreen family,

from left: Al Roker,

Sheinelle Jones

and Craig Melvin.

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