Alyssa Farah Griffin shared more about her fertility journey on this morning’s episode of The View, telling her co-hosts that it’s been a “stressful” time for her and her husband Justin Griffin.
During a Hot Topics segment about marriage, the ladies discussed how their relationships with their spouses have changed over the years. Farah Griffin, who tied the knot with her husband in November 2021, said they’ve only gotten “closer” and learned to “communicate better” with each passing year.
“But we’re in this cusp of like we’re trying to have kids and it’s been a very stressful period,” she candidly said. “But it also made us hyper-aware of all the freedom we have now and that it’s gonna be soon going away.”
“That’s a big thing for us. And just planning ahead for the things that we’re afraid of and how we’re gonna navigate it,” she continued. “But I think it’s a very active thing. Every day you have to choose, ‘I’m not gonna pick this fight. I’m invested in this.’ We don’t use the ‘D’ word. I come from a divorced family. We are committed to this so how are we gonna make it work?”
On a December 2024 episode of The View’s Behind the Table podcast, Farah Griffin revealed that she had been going through in vitro fertilization (IVF) after a year and a half of trying to get pregnant naturally.
“I wanted to share it for a couple of reasons. I had no idea at my age how hard this actually would be,” Farah Griffin said at the time, per Entertainment Weekly. “I’m only 35. And to me, I was like, ‘I’ve got plenty of time. This won’t be that difficult. I’m healthy. I work out. I eat right.’ And my body was just not cooperating with it.”
At the time, she was going through her second round of IVF. “I just wanted to mention it because, from someone who is surprised by how hard it was, it’s because all the stories of this that we hear is usually women on the other side, like, ‘Here’s my baby and, oh, real quick, it was kind of hard to get here,'” she added, noting that The View co-hosts Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin had been “beyond supportive and helpful” throughout the process.
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