Upon turning 40, Whitney Way Thore has had to face up to some milestones she feels she has missed out on. One of these is having children, in the new series of My Big Fat Fabulous Life she visits a fertility clinic to see where she stands.
In My Big Fat Fabulous Life season 11, Whitney Way Thore celebrates her milestone birthday and tries to embrace her ‘Big Fat Fabulous Forties’. The star has been feeling a lot of things about entering the next decade unmarried and without kids, especially since many of her friends are partnered. While she feels her potential ‘husband options’ are slim pickings, she is keeping some eggs on ice for the future. In episode six, she makes a visit to the fertility clinic to check on her remaining eggs.
Whitney worries about ‘getting pregnant on accident’
In My Big Fat Fabulous Life, we see Whitney visit the doctor’s surgery for a check-up with a fertility specialist.
She tells him: “I wanted to just see what was going on in my uterus, I’m curious because the last two years I’ve now suddenly got my period every single month.”
The doctor is comforted by this change and asks Whitney if there have been any lifestyle changes that could have caused this, like taking medications or losing weight.
Thore confirmed that she had lost another 50 pounds, but the weight loss had been prior to menstrual cycle changes.
The TLC star has Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, a condition that affects many women with hormonal imbalances, irregular periods, and fertility difficulties.
The doctor explained that some patients with “PCOS in their ovaries” will “lose some of their eggs” but due to the hormone changes this causes it can break the “vicious cycle” that kept them from ovulation.
Whitney is shocked at the news, especially given that she was on the brink of 40. She exclaimed: “But at this age?”
The doctor confirmed that it could be the age or the weight loss that has made Whitney regular again.
She explained to the specialist that she wanted to check in on her “general fertility” not because she is “trying to get pregnant,” but because she needs to know whether she should “worry about getting pregnant on accident.”
‘I’ve got to find some happiness’
Whitney recounted to E! News the fertility doctor had given her some encouraging news: “If I want to do IVF, I’ve got a few more years.”
She continued: “I want a partner. I know I could do it by myself, but I wouldn’t, honestly. Obviously, anything can happen in life where you end up being a single mom, but I don’t have the confidence to go in knowing I’m going to be single.”
So it seems unless her luck in the boyfriend department takes a swift turn, the 40-year-old is having to face some hard truths – she may never have children.
Whitney explained that as a woman having children can feel “so ingrained in us.” Even if you were still on the fence about future offspring having it “ripped away right from under you” still takes a period of mourning.
She expressed how the idea of children often sneaks up on her when she least expects it: “Like the other day, I was like, ‘Oh my god, well, my grandchildren, blah, blah, blah’”
“And then I had to stop myself and I was like, I’m not going to have any. There are just these realizations over and over, where you’re like, ‘What am I doing? Is my life going to be empty? Who’s going to be with me when I’m old?’”
However, the star tries to remain positive and is currently focusing on getting out there and having fun this decade: “Am I going to rot for the next 40 years? I’ve got to find some happiness.”
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