The youngest daughter of âDuck Dynastyâ stars Willie and Korie Robertson is opening up about her and her husbandâs struggles with infertility.
Bella Robertson, 22, revealed the coupleâs challenges in an interview with Us Weekly ahead of the premiere of A&Eâs âDuck Dynasty: The Revival,â a reprisal of the popular series, this time focusing on the next generation of the Robertson family.
The young Robertson star talked about why she and her 26-year-old husband, Jacob Mayo, chose to reveal their infertility struggle in the upcoming show.
âI think people just donât know what theyâre talking about or who theyâre talking to,â she said. âWe share a story of infertility in the show and thatâs something that we havenât really shared publicly that much, but thatâs something that others just donât know. When you just look at someone on social media, you canât know what anyoneâs going through.â
Robertson and Mayo were married in June 2021. As theyâve been attempting to have kids, Mayo said he wishes getting pregnant âwas as easy as people act like it is.â
âI think what weâve learned in marriage â and youâll see in our story in the show â is that I wish getting pregnant and having kids was as easy as people act like it is,â he told the magazine. âJust, âOh, I can just pop out a kid,â or, âIf we want to wait, we get to choose to wait.â Itâs not that transactional of a thing.â
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Mayo added, âI think thatâs kind of the reason when people say stuff, itâs just like, if it was easy or if it was easy not to, we would. But itâs not that simple, I would say.â
The young couple was originally reticent to share their fertility journey, but ultimately changed their minds with the hopes their transparency would help others facing the pains of infertility.
Bella Robertson said the openness just âfelt right.â
âIt was not an easy decision,â she recalled of talking about infertility on camera. âI donât think we necessarily intended on sharing it even, but it felt right. ⌠This is just one of the ways that we are showing up and being our authentic selves on this new show.â
She continued, âI think that we both felt like if we could help anybody â especially, what are the odds that weâre on this stage, where we can share something that is so real for so many?â
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 12% of American couples face infertility and, per the World Health Organization, 17.5% of the global adult population exeperience infertility.
After years of struggling with infertility and suffering four miscarriages, Karen and Anthony Monetti are among those who turned to what they hoped would be a holistic solution to their problem.
Karen Monetti told CBN News in January her doctor immediately wanted her to undergo in vitro fertilization, but she and her husband were opposed to such treatments. She said they wanted to find a natural way of addressing infertility and âput it in Godâs hands.â
Their primary concern with IVF is it involves creating embryos that may go unused.
âI didnât want to have multiple eggs that were conceived just sitting there frozen,â she said. âI could not bring myself to that, knowing that there was life there that was not inside of me and I was not birthing.â
Instead, the Monettis pursued an alternative treatment, called restorative reproductive medicine, which is a medical approach to infertility that centers on diagnosing and treating underlying problems that could cause reproductive or gynecological issues rather than bypassing them with workarounds like IVF.
After both Anthony and Karen Monetti underwent testing, the RRM team determined Karen Monetti was dealing with significant blood clots and hormone issues, both of which were treated. Soon therafter, Karen Monetti became pregnant.
âIÂ donât think many people know it exists,â she said of the medical care she received. âI think RRM is not talked about in the mainstream medical practices. I think itâs just, âGo to IVF, go to IVF.'â
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