Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tamar Braxton Gets Candid About Recent Devastating Miscarriage and Bout with IVF

tamar (talks tanning)

*When Tamar Braxton broke the news on a recent “Braxton Family Values” that she had suffered a miscarriage, it rocked the worlds of a lot of people … including her own family.

Even though the episode was filmed several months ago, it’s still affecting Tamar and her husband Vince Herbert. Braxton, 40, spoke at length with Glamour’s Jessica Radloff about her infertility struggles, why nearly 4-year-old son Logan was a miracle baby, and the untold reality of in vitro fertilization/IVF.

Here is some of the conversation:

“Beyonce gives me hope. She’s pregnant with twins in her late 30s, and that’s such an amazing blessing. And for myself, I want the Partridge family. I just don’t know how they’re going to get here. I’m very nervous about going through that whole process of IVF again, because having a loss after going through it is really devastating. It really is a loss you can’t explain.

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tamar (on the real - screenshot1)

Early on, there was a time where I was like, ‘I don’t want kids! I’m all about my career,’ and my gynecologist said, ‘Here’s the thing, Tamar: You never know what life is ever going to throw you, so you should really consider freezing your eggs.’ Vince and I talked about it, and when I went for my initial IVF—when I was just going to freeze my eggs—I didn’t know that I had infertility issues. I was blocked on both sides as if I had my tubes tied. I was 34 when I found this out. They don’t know what causes that. The devil? Ha! It’s just my makeup. The doctors didn’t think I couldn’t have kids; it wasn’t going to happen [the natural] way. I didn’t even know that until I went to go freeze my eggs. But I was cool with it, because at that time I didn’t even want to have kids. Now, I would have started at 28, 29, 30, but you don’t know until you know.

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Singer/songwriters Tamar Braxton and Vincent Herbert attend the 56th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.
Singer/songwriters Tamar Braxton and Vincent Herbert attend the 56th GRAMMY Awards.

What happened was, right after IVF, coincidentally I got pregnant with Logan. He’s the best thing that ever happened to Vince and I. Considering I was told I probably wouldn’t be able to have kids [without help], that’s why Logan is a real miracle baby.

At first, right after I had him, I’m like, ‘I’m not having any more kids!’ I hated being pregnant! I wanted an apple martini the whole time. I craved it. [Pregnancy] was hell. And then you fall in love with this kid—this crazy miracle—and all of the sudden want more. He has enriched my life so much.

vince logan & tamar

Vince and I started trying for a second child, but it just didn’t work. My gynecologist was like, ‘You need to use the eggs you were able to freeze.’ I didn’t want to go through the whole IVF situation again because I knew what [was involved]. My personality changed. I was a hateful heifer. And I didn’t want to be hateful! I knew what it did. And I was so hungry! I ate all day! But I knew I wanted a baby more than I cared about all these other things. So, me and Vince went through getting the injections all over again to get my uterus ready to have the embryo implanted. And when you’re 38 or 39, the doctors only want to implant one embryo. I had six viable embryos, and four were healthy. But when you’re in your late 30s, the doctors only want to implant one at a time because there’s a higher percentage rate of multiple births. Knowing that they could only implant one at a time was devastating to me. Because if that one didn’t stick, I knew I would have to go through the entire process again. Aside from the physical toll on your body from all the shots, the IV’s, the blood work, etc., it’s so expensive to keep going through it. No matter how much money people think you have, expensive is expensive! And there’s no guarantee it’s going to work.”

Tamar has a lot MORE to confess and you can it all at Glamour.

 

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