“Thehormones are very intense, and so many people go through this and we don’t talk about it enough, I think, as women. We need to raise more understanding and awareness,” added the formerSaturday Night Livecast member.
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HostKelly Clarksontold her guest she was “so happy” she wanted to talk about her IVF journey on the show, “because I have friends who went through it and went through some serious depression, felt shame [and thought], ‘What [is] wrong with me?’ ”
“Tried everything under the sun and sometimes it just doesn’t happen and you need science to help move it along,” added the mother of two, 37.
“It’s such a miracle what [doctors] can do —that’s a miracle in and of itself,” Elliott said, going on to share that as the older of two girls, she “definitely” always wanted to be a mom growing up.
That parental instinct has come in handy over the years before theOdd Mom Outactress and television writer Kennedy began trying for children of their own. (The coupletied the knot in October 2016.)
“I was actually [Indebtedcostar]Steven Weber’s kids’ nanny when I firstmoved to L.A.,” Elliott toldPEOPLE Nowrecently. “So it came full circle that now he’s my father-in-law [on the show].”
The actress, who is the daughter of actor Chris Elliott, said Weber’s two sons were “lovely” and “adorable,” recalling they they had “half a British accent, because [Weber’s] ex-wife is British.”
“They are just so beautiful now andthey’re in college, which makesme feel really old,” she joked of the boys.
source: people.com
