Elizabeth Banks welcomed both of her kids via surrogacy after years of unsuccessful attempts to get pregnant. She recently opened about the experience on the podcast "Call Her Daddy," telling host Alex Cooper that there's still "so much shame" attached to infertility:
"I've never been pregnant, and when I was young, I thought it was because I was really good at taking the pill, which I definitely was. But I have no idea. There's a small percentage of women who basically have unexplained infertility, and that is me, I'm in that category . . . I had always had plenty of eggs, I never had trouble making embryos; they did not implant. For whatever reason, my uterus is hostile; I don't know what's going on, but they just will not stay in there. So I had a broken belly, is what I told my kids, 'Mommy had a broken belly.'"
