Union: My struggle for a baby
GABRIELLE Union has revealed she has had at least eight miscarriages while trying to get pregnant with her husband, basketball star Dwyane Wade. The actress opens up in her book “We’re Going To Need More Wine” about her fertility struggles after going through eight rounds of IVF over three years, which all failed, in her and Wade’s desperate hopes for a baby. “I have had eight or nine miscarriages,” Union reveals. “In order to tell you the exact number, I would have to get my medical records. (I am also not sure what the number is where you start to think I must be nuts for trying.)” She continues, “For three years, my body has been a prisoner of trying to get pregnant — either about to go into an IVF cycle, in the middle of an IVF cycle, or coming out of an IVF cycle. I have endured eight failed IVF cycles. . . For as long as I can remember now, Dwyane and I have lived in a state of extended expectation. Did it take? Is the embryo normal or abnormal? Will I stay pregnant? We are always in some stage, waiting for some news.” Union goes on to declare how much she now hates baby showers and mothers who endlessly talk about their kids. “People who know my fertility issues often hand their babies to me to hold or text me pictures of babies (“To keep hope alive!” they say). Nobody seems to think this is insensitive or maybe hard for me.” And she says, reporters should stop asking her about her family’s future. Union wed Wade in 2014, and is helping to raise his sons Zaire, 15, and Zion, 10, and his nephew Dahveon, 16. Wade is also the father of a son named Xavier, born in 2013. The book comes out on Oct. 17 from HarperCollins.