Lauren Scruggs and Jason Kennedy.Photo: Presley Ann/Getty
Jason Kennedyand wifeLauren Scruggsare beginning their “IVF journey.”
Inan Instagram videoSunday, the 39-year-old E! host addressed fans from inside his car while he waited with his dog Benny as Scruggs attended a doctor’s appointment solo due to pandemic precautions. The pairwed in December 2014.
“Well, it’s day 1 of our IVF journey. I’m very excited. Lo’s upstairs, Benny’s on duty. COVID — can’t go upstairs to be with her,” he says in the video. “If you don’t know what IVF means, it means in vitro fertilization. It’s where they take the egg and the sperm and they do a little dance. Could have twins. Could havemorethan twins. Could have one. Might not even have one. It’s a whole thing.”
“But it’s going to be a good process no matter what, we’re committed to believing that. So thank you for being on this journey with us,” Kennedy adds.
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The pair have been open about their struggles with starting a family in the past. In aMay 2019 Instagram videotaken during a hospital visit, Kennedy joked: “In high school, they said ‘Don’t have sex because you’ll get pregnant’ — among other reasons — but they never told us how hard it is to get pregnant. God bless, this thing is tricky.”
“I promise we’re practicing but nothing quite yet,” he wrote with the video at the time. “Not stressing it, one day soon, love you Lola.”
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In ahopeful Instagram postlooking ahead to 2021, Scruggs shared a black-and-white photo of herself with her husband, expressing her goals for the new year.
“Let’s enter into this next year full of refined hope, greater self awareness, grace for ourselves, and a refreshed desire to be there for others even if they don’t think the way we think or feel the way we feel,” she wrote.
“Remember your life matters and you are so loved — times of hardship only deepen our story and for me, develop a greater dependance on God who never changes when the circumstances around us may feel out of control.”
source: people.com
