Mandy Moore has opened up about IVF struggles she experienced before welcoming her third child with husband Taylor Goldsmith.
During the Tuesday, June 2, episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, Moore, 42, told host Amanda Hirsch that after she gave birth to sons Gus, 5, and Ozzie, 3, she did one round of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the hope of freezing her eggs for future use.
“I had the extreme privilege of being able to get pregnant and carry both of my boys … so, I did a round of IVF and it was unsuccessful. We didn’t get any viable eggs, no embryos,” the This Is Us alum said. “So I was like, ‘This just settles that. If this is something that’s meant to be, it will happen naturally, otherwise I am so grateful and so happy with these two guys and our family will be complete.’”
Moore and Goldsmith welcomed their third child, daughter Louise, in September 2024. “Lou just had to show up,” she told Hirsch, 37. “She showed up very, very surprisingly. We were not trying, but obviously we were open to it because of the IVF of it all.”
Moore added that news of her pregnancy with Louise, 21 months, was so unexpected because she had mentally prepared herself for a life with just two children, not three. “I was like, ‘OK, I am totally satisfied.’ I tried that and [I was] really grateful that I have my boys,” she recalled.
The “Candy” hitmaker has been candid in detailing her fertility issues over the years. In 2021, she spoke publicly about the difficulty she experienced amid a possible endometriosis diagnosis while trying to conceive her first son. Three years later, after the safe arrival of both of her boys, she took to Instagram to reflect on the prospect of being unable to conceive.
“There was a time when I thought I might not be able to have kids, Moore began in a January 2024 post. “I remember when the doctor told me there was a slim chance of getting pregnant … and then lo and behold, to our surprise, I became pregnant with Gus.”
In her new interview with Hirsch, Moore noted that she is “still recovering” from having three babies in three and a half years, but noted how fortunate she feels to have grown her family without the threat of any pregnancy and postpartum complications. “I do feel lucky that … pregnancy was very easy for me,” she said. “I didn’t suffer from any sort of postpartum symptoms and stuff. I feel like I had a relatively easy journey, all things considered.”
