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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would they get upset??? Because the celebrity lies about it and creates the impression that it happened naturally (read: J Lo and others). Like anyone else, REs want CREDIT where credit is due!!! [/quote]

It's not lying when these celebs just announce they are pregnant and excited about their new baby. And there are women who get pregnant with interventions at 43, as a PP mentioned. It's okay for prominent women to maintain some level of medical privacy and they are not obligated to disclose exactly how they conceived if they don't want to.

What the RE is actually upset about is that people come into her office expecting it to be no problem at all to get pregnant in their 40s because, after all, what about [long list of celebrity women who have had successful pregnancies well into their 40s and even 50s]. But then it's the RE's job to explain that (1) everyone's reproductive experience is different and it's not really that useful to compare yourself to others, especially others with vastly different resources, and (2) we generally don't know how these women conceived, nor do we know how long it took or how many things they tried.

It's totally reasonable for a woman, even a famous woman, to not feel like disclosing that she's using donor eggs, or that she froze her eggs at 29 (egg freezing is incredibly common in Hollywood because they don't worry about the expense even in their 20s and there are so many reasons that an actress might want to have maximum control over when she has her kids, like what if she winds up on a long-running sitcom or what if her biggest career opportunities occur during her peak fertility years), or that she went through 7 rounds of IVF over several years before getting a successful pregnancy. It's also reasonable for any reproductive specialist to dismiss the pregnancies of famous women as indicative of what will happen in your reproductive life because we lack context.[/quote]

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