7. Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson and her husband Greg Wise welcomed their first child, a daughter, in 1999. She was conceived with help from IVF treatment, but when it came time for a sibling, fertility treatments just didn’t work the second time around. The failure caused Thompson to experience deep depression, and she said there were days she couldn’t get dressed or leave the house.
“IVF is very upsetting. It’s a brutal process and it’s very emotional. It’s really hard,” said Wise in a 2014 interview with The Daily Mail. “But then you pick yourself up, look around and see this unbelievably beautiful little baby you’ve got anyway.” The couple eventually went on to adopt 16-year-old son Tindyebwa Agaba, a former Rwandan child soldier who had moved to Britain.