While infertility was once a taboo subject that people avoided, if not openly lied about, now more than ever people are beginning to speak out about their experiences. In very recent years infertility has begun to lose its stigma, superstitions, and shame. 
This trend is reflected clearly in popular culture. While decades ago, a star like Marilyn Monroe never uttered a word about her multiple miscarriages and infertility struggles, today these issues have been finding a voice. Nicole Kidman, Molly Sims and Celine Dion have all opened up about their fertility battles as the cover stories of national magazines. Beyonce opened up about the miscarriage she had before conceiving Blue Ivy. Neil Patrick Harris and his husband sat down with Oprah and discussed donor eggs, and Elizabeth Banks and Sarah Jessica Parker have shared their experiences with infertility and finding surrogates to carry their biological children. In the past couple of years, the world of infertility has been emerging from the shadows, and we applaud all of Hollywood's stars for helping women by bravely discussing the issues that face so many of us!
Marcia Cross
Marcia Cross gave birth to twin girls shortly before her 45th birthday. The actress told Health magazine, “Before I hit 30, I was already longing for kids. But for years, love and marriage eluded me. In my early 40s, I considered adoption and I tried getting pregnant on my own through a sperm donor, but neither worked out.” Cross did IVF one week after her wedding to stockbroker Tom Mahoney. “We decided to skip our honeymoon and try in vitro after the wedding… It’s very, very difficult to get pregnant in your 40s. It’s costly and tough on your body and your relationship. Tom said, ‘I want children, and if we cant have kids together, then we’ll adopt.’ I wept and thought, This is the man for me.”
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