6. Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields wrote about her struggle to get pregnant and her postpartum depression in her 2005 book Down Came The Rain. She was 36 when she first started IVF and endured a miscarriage and several failed IVF cycles before they decided to try it one last time in 2002. It worked, and she gave birth to a daughter in 2003. She was definitely not a fan of the IVF injection process, she writes in her book.
“The whole process was quite an ordeal, and we became slaves to the time of day and to little vials of liquid,” Shields wrote. “We’d find ourselves out at dinner with friends, and then we’d have to sneak off to a coat room, where we’d huddle over syringes and a travel-size cooler filled with small bottles of drugs.” She ended up conceiving again, this time without assistance, and gave birth to her second daughter in 2006.