The youngest daughter of “The Duck Dynasty” is open to Willie and Cory Robertson about her and her husband’s struggle against infertility.
22-year-old Bella Robertson unveiled the couple’s challenges in a weekly US interview ahead of the premiere of A&E’s “Duck Dynasty: The Return.”
The young Robertson star spoke about why she and her 26-year-old husband, Jacob Mayo, chose to reveal their infertility struggles on upcoming shows.
“I think people just don’t know what they’re talking about or who they’re talking to,” she said. “We share the story of infertility on the show. It’s something we don’t share that publicly, but that’s something other people don’t know. Just seeing someone on social media and you don’t know what anyone is going through.”
Robertson and Mayo got married in June 2021. They were about to have a child, so Mayo said he wanted to get pregnant.
“I wish that what we learned in marriage and what you see in our stories on the show was as easy as getting pregnant and having children as people do,” he told the magazine. “Just like, ‘Oh, I can just fly the kids’ or ‘If we want to wait, we can choose to wait.’ It’s not a transaction of things. ”
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Mayo added:
The young couple originally remained silent to share their fertility journey, but ultimately changed their minds in the hope that their transparency would help others face the pain of infertility.
Bella Robertson said that openness was “right.”
“It wasn’t an easy decision,” she recalls talking about camera fertility. “I don’t think we’re necessarily going to share it, but I felt that was right… This is just one of the ways we show up and be our real selves in this new show.”
She continued. “I think we both felt we could help someone, what are the possibilities we could be at this stage, especially?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 12% of American couples face infertility, and 17.5% of infertility in the world’s adult population is 17.5%, according to the World Health Organization.
After years of suffering from infertility and four miscarriages, Karen and Anthony Monetti are among those who hoped to be the overall solution to their problems.
Karen Monetti told CBN News in January that her doctors wanted to get in vitro fertilization soon, but she and her husband opposed such treatment. She said she hopes they find a natural way to deal with infertility and “put it in God’s hands.”
Their main concern with IVF is to create embryos that may become unused.
“I didn’t want to sit there and have multiple eggs that were just frozen and thought up,” she said. “I couldn’t take myself to it. I knew there was a life there that wasn’t within me and I hadn’t given birth.”
Instead of bypassing them with workarounds like IVF, Monettis pursued alternative treatments called Repair Reproductive Medicine, a medical approach to infertility that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of underlying problems that could cause reproductive or gynecological problems.
After both Anthony and Karen Monetti were tested, the RRM team determined that Karen Monetti was dealing with serious blood clots and hormonal issues. Both were treated. Soon, Karen Monetti became pregnant.
“I don’t think a lot of people know that it exists,” she said of the medical care she received. “I don’t think RRM is mentioned in mainstream medical practices. I think it’s just “go to IVF and go to IVF.” ”
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