{"id":133573,"date":"2024-11-19T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/michelle-yeoh-felt-like-a-failure-for-not-having-children\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:01:59","slug":"michelle-yeoh-felt-like-a-failure-for-not-having-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/michelle-yeoh-felt-like-a-failure-for-not-having-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Yeoh felt like a &#8216;failure&#8217; for not having children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-11-19\" datetime=\"1732014119\" pubdate=\"\">19 November 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/michelle-yeoh\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,michelle-yeoh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelle Yeoh<\/a> felt like a &#8220;failure&#8221; for not having children with her first husband.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Michelle Yeoh regrets not being able to have children<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old actress has revealed that she wanted to start a family and even underwent fertility treatment in a bid to have children with Dickson Poon.<\/p>\n<p>The movie star &#8211; who was married to Dickson between 1988 and 1992 &#8211; said on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s &#8216;Woman&#8217;s Hour&#8217;: &#8220;I think the worst moment to go through is every month you feel like such a failure. And then you go, why? And I think at some point you stop blaming yourself. I go, there are certain things in your body that doesn&#8217;t function in a certain way. That&#8217;s how it is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You just have to let go and move on. And I think you come to a point where you have to stop blaming you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michelle &#8211; who married motor racing executive Jean Todt last year &#8211; is still trying to come to terms with not being able to have children.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe shared: &#8220;Sometimes, honestly, I still think about it.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m 62. Of course, I&#8217;m not going to have a baby right now, but the thing is we just had a grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Then you feel you&#8217;re still very, very blessed because you do have a baby in your life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMichelle&#8217;s inability to have children actually led to the collapse of her first marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actress said: &#8220;That&#8217;s why this dialogue between a couple is so important. Like, if one wants [a baby] and the other doesn&#8217;t, this is something you have to face right at the beginning, because along the way, there will be a lot of hurt and difficult times.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And so I think it was very brave on our path to admit, to say, &#8216;OK, let&#8217;s not drag this out, because that&#8217;s what we are doing. Because, we tried.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/michelle-yeoh-felt-like-failure-children-1409311.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 November 2024 Michelle Yeoh felt like a &#8220;failure&#8221; for not having children with her first husband. Michelle Yeoh regrets not being able to have children The 62-year-old actress has revealed that she wanted to start a family and even underwent fertility treatment in a bid to have children with Dickson Poon. 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