Reflecting on her decision to try IVF with husband Aaron Lohr, she admits she didn’t initially plan to have children.
“Maybe before you met me, [Aaron] I never thought I would want children, but he understands how good a father he can be,” Idina said. people“So I wanted it for him.”
In the documentary, Idina chronicles the difficulty of moving from venue to venue while balancing IVF doctor appointments and time with family.
“I’m literally going through what’s shooting into my body and I don’t know how it’s going to affect my voice,” she said in the documentary.
She continued. You can have a baby. “
Reflecting on her choice to share some of the film’s most “emotional” and “physical” moments, Idina says she wanted to help others go through the same.
“Regardless of the outcome, I wanted women to feel that they were being watched in this film and that people understood what we were going through. , it was important to allow people to have a little window into the experience,” said Idina.
Ultimately, Idina and Aaron realized that having another child “wasn’t meant to be” and “moved past it.”
“When you go through all that, you get exhausted by it, and eventually you’re like, ‘I don’t want to do this any more, and it wasn’t meant to be,’ and I think you’ve worked it out in that.” Idina said.
She said Aaron “feels really loved that I even tried my body through it.”
And after all that, Idina says she’s very “lucky” to have a son, Walker, whom Aaron now considers his own.
“I have this wonderful son and I was lucky enough to have him. Pregnancy was very easy and I got pregnant easily. A lot of people don’t even get that,” Idina said. said.
“I think we feel happy and lucky with what we have,” she concluded.
Idina Menzel: Which way to the stage? It will premiere on December 9th on Disney+.
