Kristen Wiig reveals ‘difficult’ and ‘isolating’ road to motherhood
Kristen Wiig is getting candid about her “difficult” road to motherhood.
Prior to welcoming twins with fiancé and “Love, Sex and Missed Connections” actor Avi Rothman earlier this year, the “Bridesmaids” star remained relatively mum about the couple’s years-long struggle with in vitro fertilization.
“It was a very long road,” the Oscar nominee, 47, told InStyle in a new interview out Friday. “As private as I am and as sacred as this all is, what helped me was reading about other women who went through it and talking to those who have gone through IVF and fertility stuff. It can be the most isolating experience.”
The “Saturday Night Live” alumnus noted that about three of her nearly five years with Rothman were spent “in an IVF haze.”
“Emotionally, spiritually, and medically, it was probably the most difficult time in my life,” she explained. “I wasn’t myself. There are so many emotions that go with it. … There was a lot of stress and heartache.”
IVF took “a long f--king time,” she said, noting she eventually clammed up about it “because I would get sad whenever someone asked. … It’s hard not to personalize it when you get a negative result. You go through so much self-deprecation, and you feel like your partner may be seeing you in a different way and all this other stuff we make up in our heads.”
When the “Wonder Woman 1984” star would discuss IVF, she’d always find someone who could relate or knew someone else who could.
Eventually, the couple “found the most amazing surrogate,” and though some aspects of the process were “bittersweet,” Wiig said that now, “on the other side, I wouldn’t have had it any other way.”
“I’m a different person now,” she said. “I wish I had talked about it more and asked for more help. There’s such a support system out there!”
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