Adrienne Bailon. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Pictures for alice + olivia
Adrienne Bailon-Houghton is getting candid about her IVF (in vitro fertilization) journey and the prices that got here together with it.
“I solely did eight cycles of IVF, however that doesn’t embrace the quantity of IUIs I did and each different sort of conceivable therapies that you could possibly think about for fertility,” Bailon-Houghton, 40, instructed Individuals in an interview printed on Saturday, April 20. “So it was a reasonably powerful six years of making an attempt to have my son.”
When requested how a lot her estimated prices for the fertility therapies have been, the actress revealed that she and husband Israel Houghton spent “simply over one million” {dollars}, including, “And that’s not real looking for the common particular person. And I acknowledge that.” (The longtime couple welcomed their son, Ever James, 20 months, by way of surrogate in August 2022.)
This isn’t the primary time the Cheetah Women star has been open about her fertility journey over time.
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“I feel that as an viewers we needs to be delicate to the truth that everyone doesn’t get pregnant straight away,” she stated throughout a 2018 episode of The Actual, on which she served as a co-host from 2013 to 2022. “I feel for myself I believed it could occur so simply for me and it simply hasn’t occurred that manner.”
Whereas chatting with Us Weekly in January, Bailon-Houghton opened up about how motherhood modified her life.
“[It] utterly shifted my perspective on life, how I spend my time [and] what I spend my time doing,” she completely instructed Us. “I’m loving the time that I’m attending to spend at residence with my son and get to do these unbelievable reveals that we movie after which we come residence and we get to look at them as a household. However once more, I feel the secret’s household time.”
Adrienne Bailon and son Ever James. Courtesy of Adrienne Bailon/Instagram
The I Can See Your Voice panelist additionally instructed Us in regards to the superstar playdate she goals about, hoping that when Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker‘s son Rocky is sufficiently old, they will get their children collectively. (Kardashian, 45, and Barker, 48, welcomed Rocky in November 2023.)
Sienna Miller, Josh Duhamel and extra stars have expanded their households in 2024. Information broke on January 3 that Miller had given beginning to her second child earlier that month, her first with boyfriend Oli Inexperienced. Miller additionally shares older daughter Marlowe with ex-fiancé Tom Sturridge. “I spent a lot time making ready for the beginning […]
“Sure, we’re ready for it,” she stated. “We’re positively going to make it occur.”
Previous to tying the knot with Houghton, 52, in November 2016, Bailon-Houghton famously dated Kourtney’s brother, Rob Kardashian. Though the previous couple ended issues in 2009 after two years of courting, Bailon-Houghton has remained near his well-known sisters.
She continued, “I like these women and I feel that they’re wonderful. They’re women’ women. They’re all the time there to carry you up and be like, ‘You’ve obtained this. You look wonderful,’ give a praise and it’s superior.”
