Charis Ebiaghian
Veteran actress Ini Edo has recounted the painful experience of having six miscarriages before opting to have a child via surrogacy
The beautiful mother of one recently opened up about her fertility struggles got candid about her struggles on the recent episode of the Young Famous & African reality TV show.
“I got married at the age of 26 because I thought that at 31, I’d have been done with childbearing. I’d have returned and faced my career.
I’ve tried, and I’ve had like 6 miscarriages. I don’t like getting into it. It wasn’t a fancy way out for me. I have always wanted to do this. I have tried! I have done IVF. I have lost pregnancies midway through and I know what I have dealt with as a woman”
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“I never thought I’d be someone who had fertility issues; I’ve had issues carrying pregnancy long-term”
so, when it looked like it wasn’t going to happen when I wanted it to happen, I looked at how I wasn’t getting younger. I looked at my options and surrogacy came up, so I took it and I’m very happy with my decision.
In 2023, during an interview on the popular podcast With Chude, Edo explained that she had experienced multiple miscarriages while trying to conceive on her own and eventually got tired of trying.
The actress expressed that her driving force behind this decision was her determination to have a child of her own, with or without a husband.
That was not the first time Ini Edo had been vocal about having her child via surrogacy. During a chat with popular blogger Stella Dimoko Korkus in 2021, she stated that she made this decision to avoid any father/mother conflict that may arise in the future.
