The Skinny Confidential’s Lauryn Bosstick sparked controversy after insisting that the world needs more positive fertility stories to counteract the “fearful experiences” being shared online.
Lauryn Bosstick‘s remarks on fertility are raising eyebrows.
After the Skinny Confidential founder, who is pregnant with her and husband Michael Bosstick’s third baby, explained her commitment to sharing her pregnancy stories, fans called her out for saying people talking about fertility struggles were simply sharing “fearful experiences.” And many highlighted why they found her framing to be offensive.
“The problem wasn’t that you said you got pregnant right away,” one user commented under a clip from The Skinny Confidential Him & Her podcast shared to TikTok. “It was that you implied that ‘believing you’ll get pregnant’ is all you need to do to get pregnant.”
“That’s just simply not the case for everyone,” the commenter noted. “Sincerely, all girls dealing with infertility.”
Another expressed why it’s important to uplift all fertility journeys—especially the more difficult ones.
“I struggled to get pregnant for years,” they shared, “and I literally only heard people talk about how easy it was for them. Being open about infertility is actually a new thing.”
Lauryn, also mom to Zaza, 4, and Townes, 2, had shared a bit of insight into how easy it was for her and Michael to get pregnant and emphasized why she was detailing her success stories.
“I came out and said I got pregnant with all three of my kids on my first try,” Lauryn told guest Shannon Ford Middleton during a May 22 episode of her podcast, “and the reason I said that is not to rub It in people’s face.”
“It’s to tell you that these stories exist,” she continued. “No one wants to talk about it because everyone’s f–king scared to say that—because they’re scared they’re gonna trigger someone.”
The 39-year-old went on to insist that if no one shares their “amazing stories” out of fear that someone will get their feelings hurt, “then all we’re going to get fed is—.”
To which Shannon chimed in with “the negativity,” before calling it “fear mongering.”
Echoing the sentiment, Lauryn added, “it’s fearful experiences.”
“The reason I decided to come out and say that,” she continued, “is because I want a 22-year-old who’s listening—who doesn’t wanna get pregnant until she’s 34—to hear me talk about that and be like, ‘Okay I don’t need to worry I don’t need to think about a miscarriage the second I get pregnant.’”
E! News has reached out to Lauryn and Shannon’s reps for comment but has not heard back.
For more stars that have spoken out about their fertility struggles, keep reading.
Whitney Port
Since welcoming her son Sonny with husband Tim Rosenman in 2017, the Hills alum has been candid about the ups and downs of her fertility journey, including her two pregnancy losses and her surrogate’s two miscarriages.
In July 2024, Whitney confirmed she’s preparing for a second egg retrieval.
After sharing that she and Tim had attempted surrogacy only for the surrogate to suffer two miscarriages, in addition to Whitney herself experiencing two pregnancy losses, Whitney confirmed in July 2024 she was preparing for a second egg retrieval.
“I’m feeling definitely better than my last round because I know a little bit more what to expect,” she shared, “and I just have so much trust and faith in my doctor.”
But no matter what happens in their journey to welcome a second child, Whitney has been clear there is nothing lacking in her family of three.
“Especially now, as we embark on this fertility journey for number two, I know we are complete no matter what,” she wrote as part of a birthday tribute to Sonny on his 7th birthday in July 2024. “You are a blessing. We love watching you grow and are beyond grateful for how chill you are.”
Michelle Yeoh
The Everything Everywhere All At Once star—who married Jean Todt in 2023 after a 19-year engagement—once opened up about the challenges she experienced trying to conceive with her first husband, Dickson Poon.
“I always wanted to have children,” Michelle shared during a podcast appearance in Nov. 2024. “I went and did fertility [treatments] to aid in the process. I think that’s the worst moment to go through is every month. You feel like such a failure.”
She continued, “At some point, you stop blaming yourself. There are certain things in your body that don’t function in a certain way. That’s how it is. You just have to let go and move on.”
Eve
The rapper, who shares son Wilde with husband Maximillion Cooper, once detailed a heartbreaking pregnancy loss she experienced due to an ectopic pregnancy while filming her sitcom Eve.
“It was 2006 when I found out that I was pregnant,” Eve wrote in her memoir Who’s That Girl?. “I had to have emergency surgery and stop filming the show for two weeks. I don’t know why I lied to everyone on set and said that my appendix had ruptured, really. Maybe because I was lying to myself.”
“If I faced losing my baby, then I didn’t know if two weeks would be enough emotional healing time,” she continued. “In the end, it was barely enough healing time for me physically, before I was right back to work on set. I had lost so much weight after the surgery, and my body was so frail.”
Mary Bonnet
The Selling Sunset star, who welcomed her son Austin at the age of 15, has been candid about her and husband Romain Bonnet‘s fertility journey.
“We don’t know what the outcome is going to be,” she told E! News in Sept. 2024. “We’re just kind of taking it as it as it comes. I’ve been super busy right now with the book and with the season and everything. So, I know nothing’s going to happen if I’m stressed out and if I’m running around.”
And in addition to undergoing a surgery to rectify a septate uterus (when the uterus is divided into two parts by a membrane), Mary said she and Romain aren’t rushing into any decisions—and are happy with their dog.
“We have our fur baby though, Thor. Romaine is obsessed with him,” added the real estate agent. “So if it doesn’t happen, he says he’s OK. He’s got his little fur baby, and he is just beyond obsessed. We’ll be OK. What’s meant to be will be.”
Erin Andrews
The NFL sportscaster and her husband Jarret Stoll, who welcomed son Mack in July 2023, have had their own fair share of ups and downs amid their journey to parenthood—including navigating Erin’s cervical cancer diagnosis in 2017.
But having frozen her eggs before her cancer battle, she then underwent IVF to help her conceive a child—an experience she decided to share with the world.
“I just was so tired of keeping quiet,” she explained of sharing her struggles in a 2021 essay. “It was such a hard, painful journey. I think I went numb through most of it, because you just feel like a robot and you’re on this really unfair roller coaster that more times out of none, you’re going to get really bad news.”
She added, “I’m a vocal person, and I could speak from the heart and just talk about how crappy it was and that I get it for a lot of couples and families that are trying to have a child.”
Source: www.eonline.com