Michelle Yeoh feels 'huge sadness' over her inability to have children - but has 'no regrets'

[hewontgo]

Michelle Yeoh reveals she feels 'huge sadness' over her inability to have children - but has 'no regrets' https://t.co/ij1TQbwhB7
- Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) November 18, 2024
Yeoh, 62, discovered she was unable to conceive during her marriage to business magnate Dickson Poon from 1988 to 1992. Her fertility issues were partially what

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[xellabelle]

I think I’ve tried to convince myself the last few years that I don’t want kids just because I’m so far from getting married and all that but over the past few months I’ve realised that deep down I really do. Not to the point that I would do it on my own, but just like having a family. But then again I feel like I’m always in love with the idea of things and not the actual reality.

Bleh sorry I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I’m not even PMS-ing.

[aleksie]

There's a lot of shitty things happening in the world, so that might impact your mood? That's not even knowing if you have shitty things happening in your unique life. <3

I was never into having kids as like a life goal, and I've identified as pretty strongly childfree. However, in my late 20s/early 30s, I realized that while I don't have this strong urge to have kids, I also think that I never was with someone who I wanted to raise kids with. Now at my age (almost 40), I also realized I don't have the support system to raise kids which I think it is important.

[insomniachobs]

I think parenting is one of those things where nobody can be in love with the reality before they're actually in the reality - so all any of us is ever really working off of is wanting the idea of it. Like, however grounded and realistic you are about the size of the change it'll make in your life and the work involved, it has to be experienced to even begin to get it. (I don't think that's true of all things, I think some things you can have a perfect idea beforehand, parenting's just too big to be one of them)

[mickeygang]

that's me to a T. i cried so much this past week (pmsing too lol) about my kids who i will never have, the names that would never be uttered, the love that i would never give. i never dated, much less thought about it or getting married. i'm just getting out of my 20s, and i feel the pressure to make a choice now, but there's not much choice.

[theblackwidow]

I met my husband when I was 31 and we have a baby on the way! There's still time.

[evilgerbil]

I didn't have my daughter until I was 41. I got married when I was 38 and I was still undecided for a while after that.

[aesha]

There’s a lot of time. I had my daughter at 43 and I’ve told her almost every day for these last 16 months she’s the best decision I ever made. It’s hard, so it may be that you decide not to do it whether you’re partnered or not, but if time is the only issue… it’s not one, at this point.

[duchello]

No I feel you actually. Like I have no vested interest in pursuing a relationship, at all, and haven't been for a while. But I do want kids and would only do it if I felt financially stable doing so. But I don't so it's probably not going to be for me and that makes me sad but I also know I don't want to have a kid in my 40s so if it's not in the next couple years (but I'm also not willing to just have a kid with the next person I meet) I'll probably let that ship sail.

[melancolour]

I think of my option as choosing to find ways to have kids I can support/mentor without having actual children - a lot of kids need adults who are there for them since their parents aren't

[rubie_dubidoux]

honestly I don't even know what I feel deep down anymore, I'm just so removed from the possibility that I haven't even properly considered whether I want them. but since I'm in my thirties I think now I have to just default to "no" because I feel like I should have felt more of an urge by now if that was ever gonna change. I don't want to be in a relationship so, you know, let's start there, and I definitely definitely would never want to have kids on my own, no matter my financial situation... so that's that, I guess. lol