Naomi Watts He shares two children with his ex Liev SchreiberBut it was not an easy path for them to become parents.
“I was determined to get pregnant as soon as possible. Because of my hormone levels, I wasn't IVF filter, But I have tried fertility drugs like Clomid and procedures like intrauterine insemination (IUI). I dare say it: Everything I wish I knew about menopausewhich was released on Tuesday, January 21. “I would eat my dog's nails if someone told me it would help me.”
Watts wrote that she tracked her ovulation “regularly” and got scans to get updates on her “follicle and egg formation.” She added: “We were having sex at the perfect moment to get pregnant. None of it worked.”
The actress was 36 when she and Schreiber, now 57, began trying for a child.
“I always dreamed of being a young mother but was never able to achieve it,” she wrote. “I had spent my entire adult life up to that point trying to avoid pregnancy, so once I felt ready, at 36, I assumed I would get pregnant the first time — and maybe the second or third at most. Months passed. Nothing.”
Throughout this process, I had one miscarriage.
While filming Eastern promisesa film in which Watts was riding a motorcycle, the actress discovered she was pregnant. She performed her own stunts in the 2007 film and remained mum about the life growing inside her.
“I also didn't want to tell anyone yet, because it was too early, and because I didn't want to be difficult, so I kept going,” she wrote. “It was another example that we as women often do things that put us at risk in order to be team players.”
Watts and Schreiber welcomed their first child, Sasha, in July 2007. Their second child, Kai, was born in December 2008. (Watts and Schreiber ended their 11-year relationship in 2016. I have since been married Billy Crudup. Schreiber and his wife Taylor Nissen I welcomed a baby In August 2023.)
“I gave birth when I was 38, and had my second child very soon after, when I was 40. I think my body had somehow learned the program to have children,” she wrote. “I always knew I wanted more than one child, although I didn't expect it to happen so soon. I actually wanted more than two, but unfortunately, by then I had already run out of time.
I dare say it Out now.