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Idina Menzel Got Candid About Her IVF Journey And Realizing “It Just Wasn’t Meant To Be”
Idina Menzel Got Candid About Her IVF Journey And Realizing "It Just Wasn't Meant To Be","I just wanted women to feel seen...and people to understand what we go through."

Idina Menzel Got Candid About Her IVF Journey And Realizing “It Just Wasn’t Meant To Be”

Idina Menzel is opening up about the difficulties of her IVF journey — which all happened in the middle of a massive tour in 2018.


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“Maybe before meeting me, [Aaron] didn’t think he wanted to have kids, and then, he sees how good of a dad he can be,” Idina told People. “So, I wanted that for him.”

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In the documentary, Idina chronicles the difficulties of traveling from venue to venue while also balancing her IVF doctor’s appointments and spending time with her family.

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“I’m literally going through stuff that I’m shooting into my body, and I don’t know how that’s going to affect my voice,” she says in the documentary.

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Reflecting on her choice to share some of her most “emotional” and “physical” moments in the film, Idina says she wanted to help others going through the same thing.

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“No matter what the outcome, I just wanted women to feel seen in this film and people to understand what we go through. It was important to me to forgo the privacy of that and allow people to have a little window into that experience,” Idina said.

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“I think going through all that, you’re so exhausted by it that finally, it becomes apparent like, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore, and it just wasn’t meant to be,’ and you’re resolved in that,” Idina shared.

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She noted that Aaron “feels really loved that I even tried and put my body through that.”

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And at the end of the day, Idina says she’s very “fortunate” to have her son, Walker, whom Aaron sees as his own child now.

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“I have this amazing son, and I was fortunate enough to have him. And the pregnancy was pretty easy, and I conceived easily, and there’s a lot of people that don’t even get to have that,” Idina said.

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“I think we feel content and lucky with what we have,” she concluded.

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Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage? premieres December 9 on Disney+.