Bachelor Nation’s Caelynn Bell shared that growing her and husband Dean Bell’s family was a major goal for 2025, detailing the fertility struggles she has faced along the way.
Caelynn Bell is sharing insight into her and Dean Bell’s family plans.
While revealing her and her husband of more than a year’s goals and aspirations for the new year—including expanding their family—the Bachelor in Paradise alum shared insight into her unexpected fertility struggles.
“We are trying to start a family,” Caelynn said in her Jan. 2 YouTube video. “It’s on the vision board, which might be weird. I don’t know if that’s considered a goal because we are actively trying. It’s just harder to make a baby than I thought it would be.”
“I know everyone says that,” she continued, “but I was like ‘No, I’m gonna get pregnant so easily.’ My mom got pregnant so fast with all of her kids. I was like, ‘That’s gonna be me too.’”
But the 29-year-old has since found that, “ovulation is tricky.”
After her friend found success using a fertility tracking device after just one month, Caelynn decided to try it out herself, getting candid about her experience.
“I’m still figuring all that out,” Caelynn explained. “I did get Mira. I also finally got in with the OB in January, but I got this Mira device. So, you plug in the tester, pee on a stick and it tells you your LH (luteinizing hormone) levels.”
And though finding success after one month was “not the case” for her, she is continuing to stay optimistic in finding a method that works for her.
“I was peeing on the other sticks that show lines and I was having such a hard time,” she added. “I’m like, ‘When am I ovulating?’ This, I’m still figuring it out.”
After all, growing their family has been on Caelynn and Dean’s minds for the past few years.
“We’ve been talking more and more about that,” Caelynn—who wed Dean in 2023—shared with E! News in 2022 “When we first start dating, we didn’t think this was gonna last past maybe a few months. Through the years, we have grown to trust and love each other and more so be open to the idea of marriage and now family.”
Although, the itch to grow their family may have come a bit sooner than expected.
“I’m 27,” she said at the time. “I’m thinking maybe like 32-ish is when, if we want to. We’re still on the fence, but we’re leaning more towards yes.”
For more stars, like Caelynn, that have opened up about their fertility journey, 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