Anna Friel afraid of infertility
Posted on | August 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
PUSHING DAISIES star Anna Friel has quick-thinking doctors to thank for her daughter – as a medical condition almost left her infertile. Brit actress Friel, has daughter Gracie, four, with actor partner David Thewlis – but her dream of having a family almost didn’t happen. In 2001 Friel collapsed in agony and needed an emergency operation after suffering a burst ovarian cyst – with doctors discovering she also had endometriosis, which makes it difficult for women to conceive.
She says, “It was all very dramatic and frightening. A terrible shock. I lost two litres of blood and had to have two transfusions. The doctors saved my ovaries but they said that to stand a chance of having children I had to conceive within five years, before I was 30.” Friel gave birth to Gracie in 2005, aged 28. (WENN)
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July 23rd, 2010 @ 11:57 pm
infertility is not really a big problem because of advances in health and medicine. ‘”-
October 24th, 2010 @ 9:55 pm
infertility would be less of a problem today compared to say 10 or 20 years ago;,.