The View’s Alyssa Farah Griffin opened up about her IVF journey along with her husband, Justin Griffin.
“My husband and I’ve been hoping, attempting to get pregnant for a few yr and a half, and it wasn’t taking place naturally, so we made the choice to maneuver ahead with IVF. That is my second cycle, so, tomorrow I will probably be within the physician’s workplace coping with that,” she mentioned throughout an episode of The View’s “Behind the Desk” podcast on Monday, December 2.
“I wished to share it for a few causes,” she added. “I had no concept at my age how laborious this really can be. I’m solely 35 and, to me, I used to be like, I’ve acquired loads of time, this gained’t be that troublesome. I’m wholesome, I work out, I eat proper. My physique was simply not cooperating.”
Alyssa mentioned that she hopes for herself and people going by way of the identical factor that “there’s a gentle on the finish of the tunnel.”
“I don’t know when that will probably be for us, nevertheless it’s unimaginable what science can do,” the political strategist mentioned.
She additionally shares that her View costars have been very supportive all through her IVF course of.
“We’ll get there and I’ll maintain folks posted,” Alyssa defined. “Sara Haines has been simply past supportive and useful on this course of, and Sunny [Hostin] has, too. She’s had her personal journey with this!”
Alyssa revealed that she gave herself “IVF injections at midnight at CNN on election evening and dealing till 4 within the morning.”
“I didn’t cry, I didn’t have meltdowns, I didn’t really feel hormonal swings. I feel I acquired type of cocky, as a result of, the second cycle, I’ve been a wreck,” she mentioned of the expertise. “I’ve not felt myself, I’ve been drained, I’ve been emotional, you are feeling uncomfortable in your physique. I simply wished to say it as a result of, from somebody who’s shocked by how laborious it was, it’s as a result of all of the tales of this that we hear is often ladies on the opposite facet, like, ‘Right here’s my child and, oh, actual fast, it was type of laborious to get right here.’”
“And I simply wished to say it as a result of I really feel like … from somebody who was shocked by how laborious it was, it’s as a result of all of the tales of this that we hear is often ladies on the opposite facet who’s like, ‘Right here’s my child,’ and ‘Oh actual fast, it was kinda laborious to get right here,’” Alyssa mentioned. “And I wished to only share with ladies who’re struggling that there’s hope, and also you simply need to type of be current within the course of as you’re in it.”
Alyssa and Justin have been married since 2021. Throughout a September 2023 episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg requested Alyssa if she was pregnant.
“No! Oh my god. No,” she fired again, placing her fingers over her face.
“You’ll be able to’t say that when my mother-in-law is right here who’s been dying for me to get pregnant!” Alyssa requested. “Why? Do I look pregnant?”
“Sure!” Whoopi mentioned on the time. “I simply acquired a vibe.”
