Michelle Yeah she felt like “such a failure” for not having children.
The Oscar winner, 62, revealed on the Monday, November 18, episode of the UK BBC Radio 4 show Woman's Hour that she had always wanted to start a family and received fertility treatment while married to her first husband, Dickson Poon. She said the marriage – which lasted from 1988 to 1992 – was partly “about having children, the next generation and all that.”
“And I think the worst time you have to go through every month is feeling like such a failure,” she said They are not bad said the actor. “And you go, 'Why?' And I think at some point you stop blaming yourself. I go, 'There are certain things in your body that don't work in a certain way. That's right.'”
Yeoh added, “You have to let go and move on. And I think you get to a point where you have to stop blaming yourself.”
It's been a tough road to parenthood for many famous parents, including Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. After in vitro fertilization failed on the first try, Teigen wondered if she had done something wrong. “You just look at anything to blame, especially yourself,” Teigen explained to New York Magazine's The Cut in April. […]
Yeoh said that her childlessness was “honestly not because I didn't try because I always loved and still love children,” adding, “Sometimes, to be honest, I still think about it.”
The Malaysian-born star revealed how childlessness is affecting his marriage to Poon, saying it was the “biggest factor that broke up” their union.
But you also have to understand, these are conversations that you have to have with yourself and be able to look forward and think, 'Yes, we love each other a lot now, but in 10 or 20 years, I still can. 'give him the family he wants.' And you have to be fair,” explained Yeoh.
He continued, “That's why this conversation between lovers is so important. Like, if someone wants to [a baby] and the other doesn't, this is something you have to face in the beginning, because, along the way, there will be many painful and difficult times.”
“And so I think it was brave on our part to admit, 'Okay, let's not drag this out, because that's what we do. Because we tried,'” the Everything Everywhere At Once said the star.
Jean Todt and Michelle Yeoh
Courtesy of Felipe Massa/InstagramYeoh married her longtime partner, a French motor racing executive Jean Todtin July 2023 after 19 years of engagement.
He continued to speak Woman's HourYeoh said she found some satisfaction in being a grandmother through her marriage. Todt's son from a previous marriage, Nicholashe adopted a son, Maxime, and his wife Darina on January 1.
“I am 62 years old. “Yes, I won't have a child yet, but the thing is that we just had a grandchild,” said the actor. “Then you still feel very blessed because you have a child in your life.”
