Was Tyra Banks’ IVF journey harder because of her fame?

Yes, it certainly was.

Supermodel Tyra Banks has talked about going through infertility and failing multiple cycles of IVF, all under the public eye. After seven failed IVF cycles over several years, she conceived her son, York, in January 2016 via surrogacy.

All those years of yearning, trying, failing, and waiting were not easy, especially as people kept asking her about it.

“I am so tired of seeing on my social media, ‘Why don’t you have kids?’ You don’t know what I’m going through, you have no idea,” she said. “For any woman, it is none of your business what somebody is going through.”

Tyra Banks opened up about more intimate details on her struggle to conceive in her memoir ‘Perfect is boring’ that she co-authored with her mother, Carolyn London.

London also talked about her emotional turmoil due to the failed attempts, as she said, “It hurt me so much to watch her struggle through that. She set up a nursery and, in the bathroom, she put a tile in the floor that said, ‘Mommy Already Loves You.’ And then she found out the IVF had failed,” London wrote.

“It ripped my heart out.”

Ms. Banks wanted to become a mother since she was 23 but it could not happen and eventually she turned to surrogacy and had a baby boy in 2016, when she was 43 years old.