Forced to give up on IVF, the star has been robbed of her last chance to become a biological mum. Clare Rigden reports.
Sandra Bullock always thought she was “too selfish” to be a mother. Then, at 39, she fell in love with her now husband, Jesse James, and her biological clock started ticking.
“I had shut that off, then I met Jesse and I turned on again,” she has said. Becoming stepmother to the Monster Garage host’s three children from two previous marriages — Chandler, 15, Jesse Jnr, 12, and Sunny, 6 — only intensified her desire to fall pregnant.
“I have children, amazing children. My love and my want for their future and their happiness, for their homework to be done and for them to know how smart and beautiful they are, is no less than if I’d had a child of my own,” says Sandra.
Struggling to fall pregnant naturally, 45-year-old Sandra turned to fertility drug Clomid and IVF treatments. She kept her battle secret but couldn’t conceal her frustration last year, when a reporter asked if she was going to have a baby with Jesse. “What if I couldn’t have kids? Do you know what that would make me feel like?”
Now, a custody dispute with Jesse’s second wife, porn star Janine Lindemulder, over their daughter Sunny, has forced Sandra to go public with her fertility problems.
Sandra told presiding judges that she has ceased her IVF treatments due to family “instability”, saying that “bringing another child into the world at this time would not be in Sunny’s best interests”.
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