My healing came from the outpouring of love,“Teigentells SELF.
You just really hope that other people are able to get that outpouring of love as well.
Fertility Out Loud is an expression of that hope, she says.
Yu Tsai
Teigen herself has already drawn strength working with the community in the run-up to the campaign launch.
I didnt want to just finally get pregnant and end the conversation.
I wanted it to continue.
And the more I spoke about it, the more DMs and emails and letters I was getting.
If it wasn’t public, people were privately sharing it with me.
Why do you think it is that this stigma persists for something that is so common?
Why are people still uncomfortable talking about it?
I think because it comes out as a personal failure.
Babies are so celebrated, and were flooded with them on social media.
But its putting it in peoples heads that everyone is having happy, healthy babies all the time.
Youre not sharing photos of yourself laying down in the embryo transfer room.
Youre not taking pictures of giving yourself shots or putting vaginal progesterone gel in.
So its hard to see that people are going through this when no ones showing it.
Especially these days in the age of social media.
Theres the dark side of doing these shots and taking these hormones and these pills.
And so it becomes this vicious cycle.
What would you want to say to someone whos recently gone through something similar?
I think everyone grieves in their own way.
And thats joy that can never be taken away.
Of course, you think of what could’ve been and what he couldve become.
Because that grief will come out in other ways.
Because as long as youre grieving, youre getting something out.
Whats your hope or wish for people struggling with infertility as a result of this continuing conversation?
I would just love for people to not be so hard on themselves.
We are hard on ourselves in every aspect of life.
I think women are naturally tough on themselves.
You want to be perfect.
There are just so many taboos in this.
People shouldn’t feel like theyve failed at anything.
Its just so unfair and unkind, what we do to our bodies and ourselves.
This interview has been condensed and edited for length and clarity.
