{"id":76501,"date":"2024-02-17T10:36:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/colton-underwoods-fertility-shame\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T10:36:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:36:29","slug":"colton-underwoods-fertility-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/colton-underwoods-fertility-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Colton Underwood&#8217;s fertility &#8216;shame&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-02-17\" datetime=\"1708166189\" pubdate=\"\">17 February 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Colton Underwood has shared his &#8220;shame&#8221; over his fertility struggles.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Colton Underwood&#8217;s fertility &#8216;shame&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 32-year-old &#8216;Bachelor&#8217; star and his husband Jordan C. Brown, 41, are eager to start a family together but Colton admitted their fertility journey has not been easy.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe told Parents magazine: &#8220;Well before our wedding, we started all of this. And going through this journey for me and him too, it&#8217;s really emotional in many different ways that we never really thought [it would be].<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;When we first went in [to our fertility clinic], we went in sort of skipping, holding hands, all happy. We were going to give our sample and freeze our sperm\u2014day one of starting our family\u2014and I got my sperm results back, and I had four sperm. Three of them were dead. One was barely moving in my sample. It was one of those things where [I was basically] considered technically infertile. I was like, \u2018This sucks. This is hard.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It is hard, and it\u2019s so intimate. I had so much shame around it. I felt inferior. My ego took a hit, because I pride myself on being a healthy athlete. All of a sudden, you can\u2019t do the one thing that you really want to do and produce sperm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nColton &#8211; who came out as gay in 2021 and tied the knot with Jordan last year &#8211; also revealed that the pair knew from the beginning that they wanted children together.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;One of the first things that Jordan and I bonded over was our want to be fathers. That was especially important because, as I&#8217;ve been on my coming out journey, [wanting to be a dad] was one of the factors that kept me in the closet. I didn&#8217;t really know it was possible to build a family as a gay man, until I came out, until I started having more conversations with Jordan and started educating myself.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;My greatest hope is that everybody will treat people with kindness and love and treat them as human beings. Everybody deserves a family\u2014and we&#8217;re trying our best.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/colton-underwoods-fertility-shame-1394722.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 February 2024 Colton Underwood has shared his &#8220;shame&#8221; over his fertility struggles. Colton Underwood&#8217;s fertility &#8216;shame&#8217; The 32-year-old &#8216;Bachelor&#8217; star and his husband Jordan C. Brown, 41, are eager to start a family together but Colton admitted their fertility journey has not been easy. 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