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Bella Robertson is letting fans in.
The reality star—who is married to Jacob Mayo—will be opening up about her fertility struggles on the upcoming Duck Dynasty: Revival and recently shared how tough it is to have people on social media constantly ask her when she's going to have kids.
"I think people just don’t know what they’re talking about or who they’re talking to," Bella said in a joint interview with Jacob for Us Weekly published May 21. "We share a story of infertility in the show and that’s something that we haven’t really shared publicly that much, but that’s something that others just don’t know."
The 26-year-old added, "When you just look at someone on social media, you can’t know what anyone’s going through."
The couple—who got married in 2021—went on to share what they've learned through the ups and downs of trying to start a family of their own.
“I think what we’ve learned in marriage—and you’ll see in our story in the show—is that I wish getting pregnant and having kids was as easy as people act like it is," Jacob, 26, explained. "Just, ‘Oh, I can just pop out a kid’ or ‘If we want to wait, we get to choose to wait.’ It’s not that transactional of a thing."
“I think that’s kind of the reason when people say stuff, it’s just like if it was easy or if it was easy not to, we would,” he continued. “But it’s not that simple I would say.”
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“It was not an easy decision,” Bella explained. "I don’t 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."
The couple’s insight comes after it recently announced that Bella will return to TV with Jacob alongside the rest of their family in Duck Dynasty: Revival, which premieres on A&E May 28, eight years after Duck Dynasty finished its 11-season run in 2017.
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“It was not an easy decision,” Bella explained. "I don’t 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."
The couple’s insight comes after it recently announced that Bella will return to TV with Jacob alongside the rest of their family in Duck Dynasty: Revival, which premieres on A&E May 28, eight years after Duck Dynasty finished its 11-season run in 2017.
"With their dynasty expanding into more than just ducks," the announcement said, "Willie and Korie will bring their signature humor and family fun as they grapple with mapping out the future of Duck Commander, watching the kids navigate marriage, children and businesses of their own, and passing down the family legacy."
Keep reading for more stars who have opened up about their fertility journeys...
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Whitney Port
Since welcoming her son Sonny with husband Tim Rosenman in 2017, the Hills alum has been candid about the ups and downs of her fertility journey, including her two pregnancy losses and her surrogate’s two miscarriages.
In July 2024, Whitney confirmed she’s preparing for a second egg retrieval.
After sharing that she and Tim had attempted surrogacy only for the surrogate to suffer two miscarriages, in addition to Whitney herself experiencing two pregnancy losses, Whitney confirmed in July 2024 she was preparing for a second egg retrieval.
"I'm feeling definitely better than my last round because I know a little bit more what to expect," she shared, "and I just have so much trust and faith in my doctor."
But no matter what happens in their journey to welcome a second child, Whitney has been clear there is nothing lacking in her family of three.
"Especially now, as we embark on this fertility journey for number two, I know we are complete no matter what," she wrote as part of a birthday tribute to Sonny on his 7th birthday in July 2024. "You are a blessing. We love watching you grow and are beyond grateful for how chill you are."
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Michelle Yeoh
The Everything Everywhere All At Once star—who married Jean Todt in 2023 after a 19-year engagement—once opened up about the challenges she experienced trying to conceive with her first husband, Dickson Poon.
"I always wanted to have children," Michelle shared during a podcast appearance in Nov. 2024. "I went and did fertility [treatments] to aid in the process. I think that's the worst moment to go through is every month. You feel like such a failure."
She continued, "At some point, you stop blaming yourself. There are certain things in your body that don't function in a certain way. That's how it is. You just have to let go and move on."
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Eve
The rapper, who shares son Wilde with husband Maximillion Cooper, once detailed a heartbreaking pregnancy loss she experienced due to an ectopic pregnancy while filming her sitcom Eve.
"It was 2006 when I found out that I was pregnant," Eve wrote in her memoir Who's That Girl?. "I had to have emergency surgery and stop filming the show for two weeks. I don't know why I lied to everyone on set and said that my appendix had ruptured, really. Maybe because I was lying to myself."
"If I faced losing my baby, then I didn't know if two weeks would be enough emotional healing time," she continued. "In the end, it was barely enough healing time for me physically, before I was right back to work on set. I had lost so much weight after the surgery, and my body was so frail."
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Mary Bonnet
The Selling Sunset star, who welcomed her son Austin at the age of 15, has been candid about her and husband Romain Bonnet's fertility journey.
“We don't know what the outcome is going to be,” she told E! News in Sept. 2024. “We're just kind of taking it as it as it comes. I've been super busy right now with the book and with the season and everything. So, I know nothing's going to happen if I'm stressed out and if I'm running around.”
And in addition to undergoing a surgery to rectify a septate uterus (when the uterus is divided into two parts by a membrane), Mary said she and Romain aren't rushing into any decisions—and are happy with their dog.
“We have our fur baby though, Thor. Romaine is obsessed with him,” added the real estate agent. “So if it doesn't happen, he says he's OK. He’s got his little fur baby, and he is just beyond obsessed. We’ll be OK. What's meant to be will be.”
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Erin Andrews
The NFL sportscaster and her husband Jarret Stoll, who welcomed son Mack in July 2023, have had their own fair share of ups and downs amid their journey to parenthood—including navigating Erin's cervical cancer diagnosis in 2017.
But having frozen her eggs before her cancer battle, she then underwent IVF to help her conceive a child—an experience she decided to share with the world.
"I just was so tired of keeping quiet," she explained of sharing her struggles in a 2021 essay. "It was such a hard, painful journey. I think I went numb through most of it, because you just feel like a robot and you're on this really unfair roller coaster that more times out of none, you're going to get really bad news."
She added, "I'm a vocal person, and I could speak from the heart and just talk about how crappy it was and that I get it for a lot of couples and families that are trying to have a child."
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