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Idina Menzel connected Her Journey With IVF
Idina Menzel knew the likelihood were not successful her favor.
During her in-vitro fertilization travel successful 2018, the Frozen star was warned by doctors that getting large wasn't a guarantee.
"I was doing it astatine specified a precocious property and the doctors were saying, ‘You mightiness beryllium 1 of those uncommon women that it works for astatine this age,'" Idina, 51, shared successful an exclusive clip from the Dec. 25 occurrence of Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist. "The competitory idiosyncratic successful maine was like, ‘I'm going to bash it.'"
But portion undergoing fertility treatments during her 2018 nationalist tour, Idina yet learned that different kid wasn't successful the cards for her and hubby Aaron Lohr.
However, the Wicked alum—who shares son Walker, 13, with her ex-husband Taye Diggs—still wanted to springiness fans an honorable look astatine her fertility reality in the new documentary Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage?
"I didn't privation to marque radical squeamish astir it due to the fact that my legs were successful stirrups," she joked to anchor Willie Geist. "I wasn't sure, but it was happening astatine that time."
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In her documentary, streaming present connected Disney+, cameras rolled arsenic Idina gave viewers an intimate look astatine her IVF experience, including doc appointments and the toll it took connected her body.
"As couples know, who are experiencing and going done IVF, you person to drawback these cycles with your assemblage and immoderate months are bully and your assemblage is giving you bully number with your follicles and your eggs," she said on TODAY. "Some months aren't oregon if it didn't enactment and you're pumping yourself with these hormones, sometimes you person to fto your assemblage recalibrate."
For Idina, she hopes the task reminds women that they are not alone.
"No substance what the outcome, I conscionable wanted women to consciousness seen successful this movie and radical to recognize what we spell through," she told People Dec. 6. "It was important to maine to forgo the privateness of that and let radical to person a small model into that experience."
To perceive much from Idina, ticker Sunday TODAY With Willie Geist, Sunday mornings astatine 8 a.m. EST connected NBC.
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