Jillian Michaels sets the record straight on her pregnancy comment
The reality is that I have endometriosis, and I most likely couldn’t get pregnant. I’ve had the X-rays, my tubes are closed, the uterine lining is too thick, blah, blah, blah. I was ashamed about it because I thought I’m supposed to be the healthiest woman in the world, and what does this say about me if I can’t have kids of my own. It was insecurity, which I have to work on.
~ Personal trainer and television personality Jillian Michaels explaining her comment last year that she intended to adopt an African baby to avoid pregnancy, because “I can’t handle doing that to my body,” Pop Eater, March 15
Mar.16, 2011 6:00 am |
Adoption, Pop Culture, Pregnancy |
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The truth is always so much better!
I’d like to be insecure and look like that.
Not sure if everyone knows that Jillian is bisexual.
Babies are the new accessory–everyone must have one, just to be with the “in” crowd. Taking a baby from Africian may be compassionate or it just may be selfish.
LauraV,
It can be both, actually. I think the word for it is “disordered”.
Bobby Bambino can correct me.
I wish I could go back to all the OB/GYN’s who told me I couldn’t get pregnant because of my endometriosis and introduce them to my three children. Doctors can be wrong and God can do anything.
I am now concerned for the child.
Amen, Jennifer! Lauraloo – I could care LESS about someone else’s personal information. That is one of the big problems we have now-a-days, everyone needing to share all about themselves or others…not condoning the lifestyle, but just don’t think it adds ANY thing!
Dear Jillian – SOOOO many babies need adopting right here in the U.S.!! God be with her – may she be open to HIS miracles!! It is likely too that she is a bit controlling, she can whip her body into shape — but other things are out of her hands…and that is okay, accept that God IS in control!
Jillian is part of an experimental program to adopt from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Good for her! This is a very troubled part of the world with a lot of violence–against children and others–and if a way can be found to ethically open the country for adoption, then that is great. And it is great that Jillian has decided to build her family in this way. As a mother of four (three through domestic adoption placements) I can say that the three routes to adoption–international, domestic infant, and Waiting Children (DCFS)–are very, very different and people who want to adopt need to figure out which route is best for them. It does no good to criticize people for deciding to add a child to their family through an adoption choice that is different from the adoption choice you would have made. Jillian is willing to take at least a year off from a very successful career in order to focus on becoming a parent. Good for her! I hope she learns quickly that she will have her “own” children, though they may not be biologically connected to her.
As much as I agree with adoption, I really wish that all of these celebrities would take a look at our own country and see how many children here need loving parents and good homes.
Laura Loo, what does her being bisexual have to do with anything?
Jennie: They could, but whether you’re a celebrity or not, it’s difficult to adopt a baby over here because there just aren’t enough babies up for adoption.
Bisexual could be a BIG problem when it comes for her child to bond with the other parent!
Why, Frebus?
I agree with EH. I also want to add that infertility is nothing to be ashamed of. Jillian Michaels asked what her endometriosis says about her– it says nothing about her at all!
Not sure if everyone knows that Jillian is bisexual. – LauraLoo
Not sure why anyone would care??
Sure, Jillian and her peers could adopt babies in the US, if only the escorts would stop leading them into so-called clinics.
Pro-choicers like to shout, ‘why don’t you adopt the unwanted children?’ They plug their ears when we answer, ‘if you stop killing them long enough for them to be born, WE WILL!’ I know 5 adults who were adopted. All were born before 1973. All are college educated. None of them have ever been on public assistance. Good luck, Jillian, to you and your family!
I forgot to add the 6th one who was adopted! The story is so amazing, I wish it were told publicly. It’s so amazing if I write it here, the family will recognize themselves and that would invade their privacy. Suffice to say, you know those urban legends people like to tell? Well, what if the baby you give up for adoption saves your life someday or does something so amazing it changes your life? Yeah, that. And the child was also born before 1973.
While there are children in the US fostercare system awaiting adoption, I don’t think you can fault someone for deciding that they aren’t prepared to start off immediately as a new parent of an older child/sibling group. As another commenter said, not every adoption path is right for everyone. In terms of domestic adoptions of newborns – it can take quite a long time. We all know that the pro-choice myth of millions of babies going unadopted is just that. There are hundreds of thousands of couples waiting to adopt in this country right now (and not just for perfectly healthy white babies).
CT, you are so right. I am not even that old and I’m too old to adopt an infant in my state (unless I could find a mother privately). Also, many foster care children’s parents have not had their rights severed, so one could lose a child if/when the parent(s) get out of rehab or whatever situation occurred that put them in foster care.
Good people who do foster care are my heros. Of course the media loves an adoption horror story. When I was pregnant, the big news all over was Hedda Nussbaum and the death of her illegally adopted child. Did it affect young women’s view of adoption? You bet it did.
I am getting help with my endometriosis from the Pope Paul IV Institute. I am confident they can fix my troubles because they have for many other women and I will be able to have many children (if given the opportunity! … I am single). I wish someone could direct her to them. There is no reason to despair any perceived loss of fertility because of endo.
Yep – two families frequently ask me ‘Have you found a baby for me yet?’ – and unfortunately the answer is ‘no’ since most women prefer to abort their children instead of having their children live in other families.
And the Pope Paul VI institute is doing wonderful things. All working with the woman’s naturally occurring cycle with natural hormones if needed. Keep us up-to-date on what is happening. We are interested to know!
We adopted three beautiful babies from foster/adopt – in 1991 and again in 1996. Two were siblings – but came at separate times. One was fourteen months old when he came, the other 17 months old and the other nine days old.
Those who say that there are no children in the foster care system since 1973 may not be aware that there are children and young ones at that that are in foster/adopt care. I know of many babies and toddlers that have been placed and adopted – I live in the state of Washington – out of the foster care system and I know of many grandparents raising their grandchildren.
I think PPVI Institute would be cautious with Jillian’s specific situation.
Not the medical, but the social part of it.
carder: Because she’s single, or because she’s (apparently) bisexual? Because if she married a man and went there, I don’t know what their rationale would be.
Yup, she’d be happy as long as she was the one On Top wearing the Strap-On! :-O
Besides having an attraction/preference to women (over men), there is no way that she would risk dropping her pelvic floor having a child, regardless of her athletic routine. She’s still a beautiful woman, but the idea of having a child may seem a bit TOO feminine for her, leaving her pressured into feeling that it is a woman’s DUTY or OBLIGATION to bear children… and she’ll have no part of being made to feel like it’s her duty, or that she can’t be a parent.