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Sara Bareilles opens up about her emotional journey with fertility therapies and the uncertainty of turning into a mom
She hopes to create area for others experiencing related struggles
Bareilles revealed in her new documentary Good Grief that she’s contemplating utilizing an egg donor after unsuccessful IVF makes an attempt
Sara Bareilles is opening up about her fertility struggles and why she feels it is so vital to talk about it.
During her interview with Zach Sang on The Zach Sang Show, the 46-year-old singer, whose new album Good Grief is out now, spoke about pursuing fertility therapies. Bareilles, who’s married to actor Joe Tippett, famous that she had no concept how arduous the method can be when she started.
“I really wrestled because I found so little material out in the world of people talking about their fertility struggles,” she shared. “I found a lot of evidence of people talking about how hard it was to get pregnant once they had a healthy baby in their arms, but I didn’t find a lot of people talking, it’s not that there’s none, but I didn’t find a lot of people talking from the sort of like messy middle.”
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Asked why she thinks folks do not discuss it, Bareilles mentioned it may be uncomfortable and arduous not to know whether or not one goes to change into a dad or mum.
“And it’s like a fundamental, a profound question that I am trying to answer for myself in my little life over here. Like, am I going to become a mother? I don’t know the answer,” admitted the musician. “Who wants to talk about that with everybody? I want to talk about that with everybody because I don’t want to feel alone in it. And I can only imagine if I don’t want to feel alone in it, there’s a lot of people who also don’t want to feel alone.”
Bareilles went on to say that she spent a lot of time in clinics throughout this course of, getting her blood drawn and hormone ranges checked.
“But the number of women I would encounter on any given day, just like little soldiers, just like coming in before they go to work, or not, or whatever, and just like doing the thing,” mentioned Bareilles. “And doing, it’s like that line, I’m just swimming where they tell me to until I can’t swim no more. Like that, there is this total sense of surrender and powerlessness that you just have to make peace with because this is not something that is entirely in my control.”
Sara Bareilles and Joe Tippett attends the “Happy Hours” Premiere throughout the 2026 Tribeca Festival at BMCC Tribeca Center of Performing Arts on June 06, 2026, in New York City.
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“And no amount of money that I’m throwing at it, no amount of like it is just not entirely up to me how this looks. And that is so hard.”
This is not the primary time Bareilles has spoken about attempting to develop her household. In June, the singer shared that she and her husband have been trying to have children for the last two years.
In her documentary Good Grief, which premiered on the Tribeca Festival, Bareilles grew to become emotional and revealed she’s tried IVF “a few times” and it has been unsuccessful. The “Love Song” hitmaker then revealed that utilizing an “egg donor” is the “next phase.”
“I really had to grieve that… that it won’t be mine,” Bareilles admitted within the documentary.
But it obtained her fascinated by “the size of love” and that love is “big enough to hold a lot of shapes and sizes and ways things come.”
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