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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciate when celebrities are honest about their fertility circumstances, but it really isn’t any of our business.

I actually would not be surprised if this were a natural pregnancy. Do you really think she would have tried for 8 years with treatments...or put off trying, if they wanted kids together?[/quote]

How do you know they didn't try naturally for the past 8 years and then turned to donor eggs?  I have a friend who did this--got married at 40, tried naturally from age 40 to 44, including several "natural cycle" IVF cycles.  Started the donor egg process at 45 and finally conceived at 46ish.

The thing is, you just don't know what happened.

Maybe she never thought she wanted another kid and then recently held a newborn and thought, "wow, I really want another kid" and decided to go for it and went straight to donor egg. 
Who knows.

I work in a fertility clinic.  It makes me a bit squeamish when people recount all the tales of "natural pregnancies at age 48 or 49.  Sure, these conceptions happen but they're exceedingly rare.  The vast majority of women will have difficulty conceiving at any time past the very early 40s.  Many will see a marked decline in 
fertility past age 39 or 40.  Many will never have success in conceiving a baby.  We see SO many women who have no idea that they won't be able to conceive at 41 or 42 or 43 (let alone 45+).  They believe that fertility will last until 45+ because this is increasingly how it's portrayed in the media.  However, it just doesn't.  
And there are thousands upon thousands of donor egg cycles done in the US each year.  A large number in places like NYC and California.  Most (not all) of these pregnancies are never revealed as donor egg to anyone.  We see a ton of women who don't even tell their mothers or sisters.  It's a insanely secretive process.  Anyway, you 
just never know.  Celebrities aren't miraculously super fertile.  What they have going for them is money and ability to seek care.

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people you seen in a fertility clinic are those struggling to conceive. what you are not seeing are all the older women who conceive naturally (many of them abort). your perspective is skewed... not saying it is easy or probably that one can get pregnant at 45 but it is definitely more common than fertility industry portrays it to be.[/quote]

the fertility industry has a vested interest in making women believe natural conception will be hard. I don't believe for a minute this person works at a fertility clinic though that is completely pointless anyway since a lot of people work in medical facilities with no credentials (answering phones, restocking coffee, etc.). She fails to acknowledge that half of infertile couples are there because of issues with the male. And many causes of infertility have nothing to do with age. 
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