BBC PRESENTER Tessa Dunlop has argued that “no woman should wait until her 40s to have a baby” after having her second child aged 44.
The mum-of-two claims the “past five years” of her life have “been lost to a horrible rollercoaster of desperate longing, dashed hopes, miscarriage, fertility drugs and pain” after she struggled to conceive naturally and underwent seven rounds of IVF.
In a personal essay for the Daily Mail, Tessa argues that her story proves that “anything is possible” for women wanting to have children over the age of 40.
However, the self-described “geriatric mother” said she quickly “discovered late motherhood often comes with a painful backstory” after she began trying for baby number two.
After suffering three miscarriages, Tessa wrote: “At any age, pregnancy loss can feel devastating.
“But it is particularly cruel when you are sub-fertile – or ‘over the hill’, as one relative put it.”
Even though Tessa was only 34 when she had her first child, Mara, the BBC presenter revealed that she was still classified as a “geriatric mother”.
Choosing to focus on her career and family instead of having another child, Tessa wrote: “If I was fertile in my early 30s, a few years’ delay wouldn’t make much difference, would it?
“How wrong I was.”
After trying to conceive naturally for a year, Tessa underwent her first round of IVF just a few months shy of her 41st birthday.
ps pics will improve once we arrive in #Scotland tomorrow (and no I’m not a nationalist!) #holidays #salford #paperreview #virgintrainsHowever, the presenter was heartbroken after she miscarried three pregnancies – including the devastating loss of losing a baby in the second trimester.
She wrote: “Most women agree that the only way to truly overcome such a loss is to have another baby. So I kept trying.”
After seven rounds of IVF costing a total of £32,000, Tessa welcomed her second child into the world at the end of last year.
Reflecting on her difficult experience following the birth of baby Elena, Tessa added: “That’s why my message to younger woman is: Please don’t wait. Don’t go through what I did.”
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You don’t have to pack away your bikini just because you’re the wrong side of 20. These body-beautiful stars reveal their secrets to staying in shape and prove you can smoulder in a two-piece, whatever your age. Read on and be bikini inspired!
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Hayden Panettiere
Size: 8
Age: 18
Height: 5ft 1in
Weight: 8st
To achieve her kick-ass figure, Hayden – who plays cheerleader Claire Bennet in Heroes – follows the ‘quartering’ rule. She eats only a quarter of the food on her plate, then waits 20 minutes before deciding whether she needs to eat again.
Hayden says: “I don’t have a model’s body, but I’m not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they’re fat. I’m OK with what I have.”
Nicollette says: “I don’t like diets – I see it, I eat it! I believe in eating healthily with lots of protein, vegetables and carbs to give you energy.”
kim cattrall
Size: 10-12
Age: 52
Height: 5ft 8in
Weight: 9st 4lb
SATC star Kim swears by gym sessions with Russian kettle bells (traditional cast-iron weights) and the South Beach Diet to give her the body she wants. To avoid overeating, Kim has a radical diet trick – squirting lemon juice on her leftovers – so she won’t carry on picking.
Kim says: “I am no super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.”
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