The Hills star Whitney Port revealed that she has had five miscarriages after welcoming her son Sonny as she opened up about her fertility journey on Tuesday. 

The Whitney Eve designer, 40, who welcomed son Sonny in 2017 with husband Tim Rosenman – and broke down in tears as she candidly discussed trying to expand her family.

She has now revealed that the couple have been trying to expand their family for the last seven years and have faced a number of struggles. 

Speaking on SHE MD podcast, hosted by Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi and Mary Alice Haney, Whitney explained that she is now looking for a surrogate. 

Opening up about her battle, she said: ‘My first pregnancy was extremely easy. I went off my birth control and within a couple months I was pregnant. I had no issues, no complications.

‘I didn’t feel great, but it was a completely healthy pregnancy. I was 32.

Whitney Port has revealed that she has had five miscarriages after welcoming her son Sonny as she opened up about her fertility journey on a podcast on Tuesday

The Whitney Eve designer, 40, who welcomed son Sonny in 2017 with husband Tim Rosenman

‘About a year after I had Sonny, I got pregnant again and then miscarried at around eight weeks, and I had another miscarriage after that’. 

The TV personality said that this is when her doctor suggested she see a fertility specialist.

She continued: ‘At this point, I was 34 or 35. I’ve had a total of five miscarriages. One at eight weeks, a few at nine weeks, and one ended up at 11 weeks. All with heartbeats.’

Whitney explained that the specialist didn’t reveal any complications, and her doctor suggested she do the embryo transfer herself.

After a round of in vitro fertilization, she had four embryos — two boys and two girls — that the doctor recommended she use. She added that the boy embryos had stronger grades than the two girls.

She recalled: ‘The week before I did a transfer, I got extremely sick, throwing up so much that I ended up having to have an endoscopy, and it was just a whole situation.

‘I ended up not being able to do the transfer and basically had, like a mental breakdown.’

Following the struggles, Whitney and her husband started talking to people about their fertility journey and decided to find a surrogate.

Whitney broke down in tears as she candidly revealed that the couple have been trying to expand their family for the last seven years and have faced a number of struggles

Speaking on SHE MD podcast, hosted by Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi and Mary Alice Haney, Whitney explained that she is now looking for a surrogate; pictured Tim and son Sonny 

She recalled: ‘I was 34 or 35. I’ve had a total of five miscarriages. One at eight weeks, a few at nine weeks, and one ended up at 11 weeks. All with heartbeats’

Discussing surrogacy, Whitney continued: ‘We ended up doing two transfers with her and we used the girls even though they weren’t graded as high. I wanted the girls.

‘So, we put in one girl and she had a clot, a subchorionic hemorrhage.

‘She went on bedrest, but then she miscarried, and the doctor recommended that we try again with her. He thought that it was just something random.

‘We tried again with her, and the same thing happened, and heartbeat and everything. And then she miscarried. We obviously decided at that point we needed to take a little bit of a breather from everything.’

Whitney and Tim decided to take a break for a year to figure out what they wanted to do next to expand their family. 

She said: ‘We had talked to a lot of people and we thought that maybe doing a fresh round of embryos and a new surrogate was the best option.

‘I had decided I really felt like carrying was off the table for me.

‘We still do have those two embryos from that last round. That could be better because I was younger, who knows, but the other two didn’t work, so maybe that batch was bad.

‘So, I went this summer at 39 years old, and did another round with a different doctor, and ended up getting one healthy embryo. A male embryo. And now we are on the search for a new surrogate.’

She said: ‘I had decided I really felt like carrying was off the table for me. So, I went this summer at 39 years old, and did another round with a different doctor, and ended up getting one healthy embryo. A male embryo. And now we are on the search for a new surrogate’

Whitney and Tim met in the mid-2000s at a birthday dinner for one of her ex-boyfriend’s. The pair started dating in 2010 before tying the knot in 2015 and welcoming their son two years later

Whitney and Tim met in the mid-2000s at a birthday dinner for one of her ex-boyfriend’s.

After having an almost immediate attraction to him, she revealed to a mutual friend that she thought she was already in love with him.

Tim would end up working as a producer on Whitney’s reality show, The City, and then the pair struck up a romance together less than two years after it concluded in 2010.

They wound up dating for about three years when they decided to tie-the-knot in a ceremony in Palm Springs, California in November 2015.

Their boy Sonny would ended up making his arrival into the world about two years after exchanging their nuptials.

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