PREGNANT Atomic Kitten songstress Liz McClarnon has revealed her gruelling IVF toll from feeling “broken” to her weight gain.
The Eternal Flame vocalist, 44, revealedin May after spending two decades trying to conceive.
A full cycle of IVF (in vitro fertilisation) takes around 3 to 6 weeks to complete. It usually follows 6 steps, depending on the type of treatment you’re having.
Taking to on Monday, Liz uploaded a series of snaps from the past few years which revealed her treatments withhusband Peter Cho as well as the side effects of the medication.
Liz captioned the video: “After 8 IVF cycles within 3 years, as you can imagine, I’ve been on hormones more often than not.
“I just wanted to share how it can look. Sometimes normal and sometimes very not.”
Liz’s video began with herself looking drained as she mused: “Sometimes you could tell.”
Then she cut to an energetic shot of herself captioned: “sometimes you couldn’t.”
helping her with her injections on their first attempt at IVF, explaining that “life carried on as normal.”
As the cycle continued and she needed more injections, she confessed: “Istarted to gain weight...of course that didn’t matter.”
Yet she admitted she ended up feeling “a little bit broken” as the cycle continued reports The Daily Mail .
receiving her final injection and making one last trip to the clinic where she was filmed with “the look of hope.”
Liz said of their three failed embryo transfer attempts in 2022: “The first time we did it, I thought, ‘This will be it.
“But by my third cycle, it was obviously very different.
“When that one didn’t work, I was really quite sick and I was in a dark hole.”
She said to MirrorOnline : “I’d put on so much weight but I didn’t want to tell anyone why, because I didn’t want the IVF to become my identity, my whole personality.
“I was still doing shows and I’d see the comments online talking about me.
“I remember one said, ‘She’s getting really thick,’ and others were like, ‘She’s unrecognisable.’
“I tried to remember that those people didn’t know what was happening, but it was hard.
“I just felt broken after the third time, so we took a break before the wedding.”
two years agoin the.
Yet towards the end of last year they suffered two tragic miscarriages.
Happily, the , with Liz taking precautions due to her age classifying it as a “high risk” .
BABY REVEAL
Liz looked glowing in the clip announcing her pregnancy to the world.
The captions over the video read: “I’ve been keeping a secret from you, and I’ve mostly kept myself offbecause sometimes it was hard to smile.
“But after years of sometimes quite painful IVF and dark times, I’m pregnant!
“We feel like we’ve been given the world.”
Liz also wrote a heartwarming messagenextto the video, which read: “I started to record a video of me just telling you but I got too emotional so I thought I’d just hide behind this little announcement instead.
“I just can’t believe we’re here.
“So many have been through exactly what I went through and worse.
“I want to share what I can and add my voice and ears to those who already help others understand or deal with all that comes with IVF and loss after so much hope.
“I’ve been a part of some beautifully supportive communities. I’m so grateful. I am so grateful!”
