Feel sorry for Halle Berry, Pregnancy took a lot of work

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

Halle Berry says she and her boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, tried and tried and tried to get pregnant.

Halle Berry said she and her boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, worked hard to get her pregnant.

"So there was a lot of staying home and doing what you do. Like, all the time, around the clock," the 41-year-old Oscar-winning actress said Tuesday on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

One negative pregnancy test followed another, "and finally, after about 35 tests, we finally got a positive test," Berry told Winfrey in one of her first interviews since announcing last month that she was expecting her first child with Aubry, her boyfriend of two years.

Berry, who is about three months pregnant, told Winfrey she doesn't want to know the sex of the baby.

"There's so few genuine surprises in life anymore that, why not have a huge surprise?" she said. "And I like fantasizing one day it's a girl, one day it's a boy."

Berry won the best-actress Oscar for 2001's "Monster's Ball." She also won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for 1999's "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge."

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She said playing a mother in her latest movie, "Things We Lost in the Fire," helped convince her that motherhood was for her.

"I think it validated that I was meant to be a mother because every day I dealt with the character as a mother and thinking as a mother," Berry said. "It let me know that I must be a mother."

Berry said she and Aubry don't plan to marry, but feel fully committed to each other.

"I feel more married, in a way, than I ever have in two marriages before," she said. "He really understands the spiritual connection is so much more important than the paper and the pomp and circumstance and the ceremony."

But Berry said there is something she and Aubry are sure to do: try to have another child.

"There's just one right now," she said. "But we're hoping, right after this one, to do it again."

[Miasma]

She's 41?

[Nebu]

She's 41?

AND hot.  If Gabriel gets tired from all of that "work", I'll be happy to volunteer some time. 

[WayAbvPar]

She's 41?

AND hot.  If Gabriel gets tired from all of that "work", I'll be happy to volunteer some time. 

I just wanna feel good!


Edit- Ah, my 8000th post. And a monument to all the insightful things I say around here on a regular basis, I might add. Nope, not fluff or played out Internet memes from me- 8000 posts worth of pure goodness. Here's to 8000 more!

[Abagadro]

As someone who has actually gone through infertility issues, I can say it amazingly does become work.

[Paelos]

As someone who has actually gone through infertility issues, I can say it amazingly does become work.

Yes, but the hotness factor of Halle sort of makes it seem small.

[Abagadro]

Are you implying that my wife isn't hot?

[Engels]

I think you should post pictures of her on the internets. Oh, and any pictures of Halle Berry naked you care to find, to validate the scientific nature of this noble endeavour. Never doubt that F13 will get to the bottom of this. Signe can moderate the thread, to make sure it doesn't become purient and filled with moral terptude. 

[Paelos]

Are you implying that my wife isn't hot?

That's the kind of logical jump you see in a bar at 2AM.  :-D

[Yegolev]

Anything becomes a chore when you have to do it, especially on a schedule, and especially when you're over 30.

[WayAbvPar]

I'll tell you what- come over and mow my lawn and I will take care of that particular chore for you. As long as we can clear it with my wife. The lawn REALLY needs  it, so she will probably agree  :-D

[JWIV]

As someone who has actually gone through infertility issues, I can say it amazingly does become work.

It really does.     

~14 days of mandatory missionary is really about as much fun as it sounds like.   

[Oban]

[Yegolev]

I'll tell you what- come over and mow my lawn and I will take care of that particular chore for you. As long as we can clear it with my wife. The lawn REALLY needs  it, so she will probably agree  :-D

How big is your yard?  I'll mow it if you don't nag me about doing it on a schedule, or comment on how I do it, or make weird requests, or call me up and ask WHEN I'm going to mow, or tell me it's not a good time if I drop by with my mower all gassed up.  I will also go directly home and take a shower and nap when I am done, so don't ask me in for socializing.

[SnakeCharmer]

Anything becomes a chore when you have to do it, especially on a schedule, and especially when you're over 30.

Heh.

No doubt.

[Nebu]

Anything becomes a chore when you have to do it, especially on a schedule, and especially when you're over 30.

I beg to differ.  Sex with Halle Barry would NEVER become a chore... I'm willing to prove my theory. 

[Yegolev]

Sure.  I'll be here when you get back.

[Abagadro]

Anything becomes a chore when you have to do it, especially on a schedule, and especially when you're over 30.

I beg to differ.  Sex with Halle Barry would NEVER become a chore... I'm willing to prove my theory. 

There is some great statement that I am sure I am not getting quite right along the lines of "No matter how how a woman is, someone, somewhere is sick of putting up with her bullshit."