I was surprised at the amount of debate on yesterday’s story about Giuliana and Bill Rancic’s announcement that they were expecting a baby via gestational carrier. Many of you pointed out that Giuliana refused to gain 10 pounds to get pregnant, which is technically accurate and something that she admitted to on “The View” in 2010 – way before she had cancer. I covered it extensively at the time, and you can read about it here and here. Rancic said the doctor told her to gain ten pounds to possibly increase her fertility, that she’d gained five and considered it enough and didn’t want to gain more as she is in an image-focused job. She has some well documented food and body image issues, but I don’t see why we have to bring all that up when it comes to this happy news. We have no idea if that’s why she couldn’t get pregnant back then.
As you know, Giuliana was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Doctors advised her against trying to get pregnant, and told her to wait a few years after her mastectomy and reconstruction. As a last ditch effort, Giuliana and Bill got in touch with a gestational carrier through their doctor, and used the last two embryos left from Giuliana’s pre-cancer IVF cycle. The pregnancy took and Giuliana and Bill were so happy to announce that they’re expecting a baby after experiencing miscarriages, lost hope, and cancer. I don’t get how anyone could call these two selfish for having a biological baby after all they went through, but some people did. Some chastised these two for not adopting, which would have probably been a longer and harder process than surrogacy from what I know about it. Adoption is not an “easy” route.
Anyway US Weekly has video of Giuliana and Bill finding out from their doctor that their gestational carrier is pregnant. It will air on an upcoming episode of their Style reality show. Just like yesterday’s news, this choked me up. They’ve been dreaming for a baby for so long and it looks like it’s finally happening for them.
After a particularly trying year, Giuliana and Bill Rancic needed some good news.
In an upcoming episode from their Style Network reality show Giuliana & Bill, the couple receives just that in the form of a phone call from their fertility doctor Dr. Schoolcraft.
“Well. . . we’ve got the pregnancy test,” Schoolcraft tells the anxious couple. “It’s completely 100 percent positive. She’s carrying a baby! Everything went as well as I could have dreamed.”
Overwhelmed by their good fortune, Giuliana, 37, and Bill, 40, break down into tears. After several failed IVF attempts and a miscarriage, the spouses of nearly five years will welcome their first child via gestational surrogate later this summer.
When Giuliana was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, “we had the embryos frozen,” Bill explains to Us Weekly. “Everything happens for a reason, and we believe this is meant to be and the way it was supposed to work out.” (His E! News co-host wife is now cancer-free.)
Bill adds: “The last year and a half we’d been having people come up to us and shed tears and cry. It’s so nice now to be crying tears of joy. It couldn’t be better.”
[From US Weekly]
Again, I don’t particularly like Giuliana. I think she’s superficial and self-focused, and I’ve watched a little of her show and seen her in action. I’ll be damned if cancer didn’t change her, though. I was moved by what she went through, and I was touched by how Bill supported and loved her through it all. Yes they’re going to pimp out this baby, and they’re going to show us all their emotional ups and downs throughout the process. They’re reality stars, that’s what they do. That doesn’t mean I’m not happy for them and rooting for them. I don’t get how it’s somehow selfish for them to use the embryos they had leftover from IVF. This is not Octomom-levels of delusion, this is a couple with a lot of love to give who wants a baby after two failed IVF cycles and breast cancer. I still think it was probably much easier for them to try a gestational carrier first than to adopt or go for full surrogacy.
US Weekly has more on Bill explaining their choice. He said that if Giuliana had “gotten pregnant, it probably wouldn’t have been a very good outcome because of all the hormones — it would have made the cancer surge. So this was the best option.” Bill added a little about their carrier, whose identity they’re keeping a secret. He said she’s “a really nice girl who comes from a good family. Knock on wood, but I think we hit the gestational carrier lottery!” Aw, that’s sweet.
Bill and Giuliana are shown outside the Today show yesterday (yellow dress, credit: GG/FameFlynet Pictures) and on 4-3-12 (brown dress, credit: Hall/Pena, PacificCoastNews.com)
Everything about these people is TMI. Why should I care? Who the heck are they anyway? I wish they would just go away!
Agreed. I surprised she doesn’t share potty trips. Who cares?!? Especially if it’s true she wouldn’t gain five lousy pounds. Probably better she didn’t carry a baby herself if she’s this obsessed with her weight.
There’s no such thing as TMI anymore.
I’m real happy for both of them but they’re both so ten years ago. It’s really hard to care about either of them. She’s an entertainment reporter and he won an early season of the Apprentice. They aren’t particularly cool or exciting.
I find the way they go on the Today Show once a month to announce their personal/medical issues extremely distasteful. They need to learn the meaning of a PRIVATE life, whoring out your medical issues is just sad…
THANK YOU! Glad I’m not the only one! I watch Today every morning getting ready for work, and I’ve been wondering why they keep repeatedly popping up on there, wasting airtime, and why I should care about their every medical issue. I promise, I don’t! 🙂
For all the crap folks seem to be pitching over them not choosing to adopt, the fact that, because of her cancer status – adopting might very well NOT be something they can do now. Especially if they only wanted to try for a newborn – in situations like that, a parent with ongoing cancer treatment is pretty much dropped to the bottom of the stack.
They aren’t my favorite people in the world, but for all that, I DO believe they sincerely want a child, and will love this baby. Like you, I’ve been actually rather pleasantly surprised in how much she has seemingly grown as a person through all her recent struggles. TMI or not, I hope they have a safe pregnancy with their carrier and it all gives them the happy ending they have fought so hard for.
I like how she neatly tucked the tissue under her perfect eyelashes to cry.
I’m very happy for them, but everything about her seems so contrived and very phony.I truly believe even if she was able to get pregnant she would not be willing to mess up her skinny frame for a child.
‘I truly believe even if she was able to get pregnant she would not be willing to mess up her skinny frame for a child.’
Edwin, you obviously haven’t seen the show and how heartbroken they both were when she miscarried.
A second day of many cruel comments, is empathy and compassion out of fashion?
LOL, I noted that too.
I noticed too, i think the flack they get, besides it being cause of the constant media whoring is because of how grating and superficial and dislikeable SHE is
We’re on adoption number four. This is NOT the easy route at all. I don’t think there is an easy route to parenthood ever. I am happy for them and think people need to stop judging. No matter how you become a family or who is in your family, having a family at all is a gift and a miracle.
Mazel tov! I admire so much those who go through the process, and you kind soul, have been through it not once, but FOUR TIMES!
Congratulations.
Their lives are TMI.
Yep. Too bad she opted to have both breasts hacked off; cancer is healable via a raw food diet. Google it.
Uh. Wow. Ignorant much? I usually try to not feed trolls, but as a recent breast cancer survivor I had to comment. A person with a screen name of “Seymour Butts” is doling out cancer treatment advice. For free, no less! How lucky we are! Just think, Seymour Butts, you could be making millions while saving lives with your genius! Tell me more! Wait! Send me your email so I can send you my mammogram and you can read it for me and tell me what crystals I can use. Sheesh! And here I thought I needed a doctor! All I needed to do was come here!
Oh, and ask Steve Jobs about how well that raw food diet worked for him. Oh wait, you can’t. He’s dead.
Hey, now calm down. I know of many people who’ve been successful. Do some research and you will find the same. No, not ignorant. I wasn’t aware Steve Jobs had tried it. I thought he went the conventional route. Mammograms are also a cause … do some Googling on this site …
http://www.naturalnews.com/
Hahaha, Rachel. Ugh. Don’t feed the troll. 🙁
Congratulations on your recovery! I wish you continued good health.
You know, while I fully respect anyone’s decision to take an alternate route through their treatment, people who minimize and simplify cancer treatment like this, while there are people such as myself (&Rachel) who have gone through a regime of poisoning, but hopefully lifesaving treatment, need to get off their high horse. And it is downright scary to nonchalantly spread information like this.
btw, also Google Bif Naked. Breast cancer survivor, advocate, and long-term (at least predating her cancer), raw vegan.
I’m happy for them, but agree it’s too much TMI. I don’t understand how people like them don’t want to keep some things special just for them, but I guess I think differently than people willing to live their lives on TV.
I do believe that adoption should be everyone’s first option. A fact is adoption is pretty easy if you are willing to select a child of a difference race. There are many thriving and healthy children in foster care but many of them are Latin and African American. However, I know for a fact that her cancer probably made the process of adoption next to impossible because they prefer ex-cancer patients wait 5 years. Personally, I think she should have waited a few more years to ensure there will be no relapses. That’s just my opinion.
Ultimately, since these laws allow people to do this. I cannot chastize them for utilizing their freedom of choice. They made their choice and while many of us may have our own opinions on the matter, it is a choice that should be ultimately celebrated.
I think it’s wonderful, and generous of them to share with all of the people who have followed their story and wanted this to happen for them. I think it will give a lot of people with similar struggles hope.
I don’t see how it’s selfish for them to want a child that is biologically theirs. Maybe if the carrier wasn’t able to get pregnant, adoption may have been their next step?
I’m so happy for them. I like their show and their emotions are pure and real. By the way, Bill is probably one of the best husbands in the world.
I must say I don’t particularly like these two and I cried like a baby when I saw how happy they were. Congrats!!!
In the links…Emma Roberts…wow. I was going to say that was the worst look I’d ever seen, then I looked at the girls beside her. High waist, cut-off jean shorts are disgusting.
I feel sorry for their future child. My Mother had an eating disorder and her behavior led to my own eating disorder. I have recovered after 9 years and I do not plan on having children unless I know I am well enough to not harm my children’s eating choices.
*hugs* on having the self insight to know what is good for you and your future family!
((hugs)) I have a dear friend who was the only “heavy” sibling in her family, and her mother offered her plastic surgery & lipo one year for her birthday.
Same dear friend wanted my advice on putting her daughter on a diet at the age of 8. I said “Don’t you DARE do to her what your mother did to you! She looks fine; she’s a normal little girl.”
Wow.. Love how some people Are so free to judge on here. Why shouldnt they be happy and have a baby however which way they want to try. So very happy for them and I hope that they never have the unfortunate experience of reading some of these posts..
Look. We comment and give our opinions here. I’m sorry of they disagree with yours but this post invites us to give our opinon on the matter.
They apparently publicize their whole lives – I doubt they care what anybody thinks, and they invite opinions by airing their personal business, much like everybody else these days. Besides, the joy of a new baby erases anything else. Mazel Tov to whoever they are.
I like them so I enjoyed watching their ‘sweet’ moment. I found some of the comments yesterday depressing, as Celebitchy says it’s happy news.
I am not that keen on them but I couldn’t agree more regarding the comments, some of them made me feel quite sick. There are a lot ludicrously over opinionated people on this thread whom I am glad I will never have the misfortune to meet.
Exactly what is the difference between a gestational carrier and a surrogate?
gestational carrier means you use your eggs and the man’s sperm…and inplant in a carrier…therefore the child is biologically yours.
surrogate is where you use a different woman’s eggs, not yours and implant in a carrier (normally the woman who is donating the eggs).
Thanks, Me, for the info!
Thank you! Was dying to ask the same.
I am not judging them for their choice of conception – I am judging them based on the fact that NOTHING IS SACRED in their world. I wouldn’t be surprised if they planned a surrogacy ALL ALONG…They both live & act out of ego – everything is based on carefully scultping such an egocentric world that they sacrifice all things sacred & REAL. Cannot. Stand. Them.
“This is not Octomom-levels of delusion, this is a couple with a lot of love to give who wants a baby after two failed IVF cycles and breast cancer.”
This is exactly what I was trying to say yesterday. Do all the women on here saying they should have adopted have a bunch of adopted children? Are all the women who can naturally get pregnant also selfish because they could have adopted instead? You do what you want with your uterus, and I’ll do what I want with mine, thanks.
I’m just a little surprised they would announce it BEFORE the baby is actually in their arms and it’s truly theirs. Maybe it’s just me, but I would not jinx it by announcing it so soon. I would go the Nicole Kidman or Sarah Jessica route and keep in quiet as you never know. But then again, they are a TMI couple about EVERYTHING.
Never liked her (and HATE HATE HATE her weird hairline), but I am happy for them.
they probably announced it now because it will probably be a featured storyline on their show…the new season just started. I’m so happy for them…they have been through alot…glad they are sharing this will others.
I for one am grateful for people like this that come out & share their stories on infertility issues. It makes people like me, who has struggled for years to conceive & knows the heartache of miscarriage, have a glimmer of hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel. God Bless them with a healthy baby…
I too am grateful. I conceived my two boys with the help of clomid and metformin (since I am unable to ovulate on my own due to PCOS). I am also the product of fertility treatments (it took my mom 11 years to have me, 5 miscarriages and a still birth). I believe their sharing helps those struggling with infertility and “normalizes” an issue that has alot of social stigma associated with it. The one time I did admit to another parent that my children were the product of fertility treatments I was told “it’s not natural, and if you can’t do it on your own, it’s not meant to be.” Gee thanks lady, my kids are unnatural and shouldn’t exist!
I agree. I always like it when celebrities are honest with their fertility problems because it draws attention to the issue. I know so many people who’ve had problems conceiving and myself I suffered from multiple miscarriages before having my son. I’ll be honest, if I’d gotten to the point where it was dangerous to keep getting pregnant, my best friend had already agreed to be our surrogate (using my eggs). Yes, adopotion is a wonderful thing, but for me, personally, I would have needed to exhaust every option for having my own, biological child first.
@michelle, thanks for sharing your struggles and I’m glad you were able to conceive and carry a healthy baby boy to term.
I just want to say that I’m so happy for them. If anyone has ever struggled with having a child or a sick child it’s a different world. I connected with the show because my 5 yr old son was diag with leukemia the same day she came out with hers. It’s a tough time and nobody understands but she inspired me to make that one extra step to get out of bed in the morning and I will be forever grateful. She’s very inspiring and her husband is so optimistic and between the both of them maybe one person could learn something from watching the show because I know I have forever. Thank u guils and rancic 🙂
I just do not understand…honestly…how you could not gain weight if you wanted a baby that badly…its the egotism of the rich…I’ll just pay someone else to do it. I understand she had cancer and all that…but wasn’t the cancer caused by all her invitro treatments? I’m sure they will be great parents…honestly…but you have to admit they are pretty far up their own asses.
the cancer was FOUND during the in vitro process, not caused by it.
I find her to be a selfish person, not based on this decision, just in general. And they just seem to be a couple of famewhores to me. Is nothing sacred? Can you not keep anything to yourself, a secret to hold close for just yourself and not for public consumption?
Surprised at all the nasty remarks. I’m very happy for them; they’ve been through so much and have shown much grace, strength, and class in doing so.
Bill looks weird and plastic and she looks emaciated and unattractive. Sorry but i find these two unappealing all across the board.
While I’m not fond of either of them, I wish them a happy, healthy family.
She is very lucky they both are. She has a man in her life that loved her and stood by her during some dark time. Some men don’t stay. Don’t wait to hold your hand. He obviously loves her a great deal, and they are having a baby.
how that is a bad thing when people want a child so much is strange. Regardless of how the did it.
Congrats on a healthy pregnancy and baby.
Bill looks weird because, he always tries to smile even when he doesn’t feel like it. I guess it’s what tv personalities have to go through *scratches head*
I usually don’t comment but when I see outright stupidity perpetuated, I have to speak up, if you will. Mammograms CAUSE cancer? GTFOH. Thank Goodness “Bitchies” do their own DUE DILIGENCE. Stick to the myths of the Lochness Monster, Unicorns, Leprechauns and Trolls (oops, too close to home, eh?)
Myth: Mammograms cause breast cancer.
Fact: The risk of harm from radiation is minuscule compared to the huge benefits of early detection.
The ACS recommends that women 40 and older have a mammogram every year. Radiation doses are regulated by the FDA and are fairly low—equivalent to the amount the average person receives from naturally occurring sources over 3 months. Also, women today receive 50 times less radiation from mammograms than they did 20 years ago, with the risk of long-term health effects being almost zero, according to the FDA. As each case of breast cancer is different, every woman should talk with her doctor about her personal risk factors for breast cancer. Those at high risk may need to start getting mammograms before age 40 or couple them with more sensitive screening methods, like MRI.
I agree with you. How else are they going to find potential problems? Self-exams are important and I know mammograms aren’t 100% effective (they missed my MIL’s breast cancer), but I think the benefits far outweigh the cons.
I hate the idea that in a few years I’ll have to be getting them because I think waiting for the results will scare me more than the actual painful process, but until there’s newer technology, there’s nothing much that can be done about it.
Maybe in a warped way it’s a good thing she didn’t gain weight because if she got pregnant and they discovered the cancer then, what could they have done about it? And then the estrogen would be fueling the tumors on top of it.
I don’t know if I buy this weight gain business anyway. I have known a few people who were absolute stick figures and got pregnant. One of them was so fertile she had almost three in a row (very, very close to one another). And she snapped right back to her skinny form after all three births. It was incredible.
Anyway, I don’t fault them for not adopting. It’s a personal choice. After seeing what a family member went through to adopt and what life is like since that adoption, if I wanted kids and couldn’t have any, I don’t think I’d go that route. But that’s just me. I don’t want children anyway so my viewpoint is probably skewed.
Rachel Zoe got pregnant and she’s painfully underweight.
I like G and am happy for them and glad they are sharing. I only wish she didn’t have to suck up to that douche Justin Timberlake on red carpets. I could never do her job feining interest in the latest crop of celebs.
If only Beyonce would be so honest.. Nawh.. who cares for either of them.
I wasn’t particularly fond of either til I caught a few of their reality shows…I felt like they were in the minority of showing warts and all…and truly in love
And once you get on that sharing train it’s difficult to get off …for example I would imagine all sorts of people were approaching her, offering support, pulling for them, it’s probably a relief not be the childless cancer victim.
I, for one,wish them all of the luck in the world and lord knows if they’ve made it this far …they’ve earned it!
Well, I don’t understand why they have to be so overly public about the baby thing, just do what you want to do and be happy together, or happy with your other friends and family, but why try to broadcast something so intimate just to get media attention? Yes…TMI is kind of where this has gone.
Their teeth are RI.DIC.U.LOUS!!!!!
I don’t know about his but hers are so bad because of her eating disorder. Lack of good nutrition is causing her gums to shrink away from her teeth.
You just know that these two will shove their baby in front of the cameras at every occasion.
Phony, fake people, on a phony, fake “reality” show. Maybe she should step away from the cameras and airing every tiny detail of their lives and FIX HER EATING DISORDER. Even before having a baby. I can’t believe there is NOBODY in her life who is willing to have an intervention and make her stop denying it. Parents? Anyone? SOMEONE in her life must love her, right? They can’t all be shallow enablers. Can they?
Let’s see how long they “reality” marriage last, despite they having this baby..the woman looks very superficial, very dumb & cares really nothing than her looks only. I wonder why he married this kind of superficial brainless woman
Who are these people and why do they keep appearing on the today show? Who cares?