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From Infertility to Family

The Cindy Margolis Story

By Teri Brown

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Internet star, host, supermodel, playmate, RESOLVE spokesperson. It's like playing that old Sesame Street song,

"One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong..."

But Cindy Margolis is all of those things. And now, after a long struggle with infertility, she can add mother to the list.

In the book she is currently writing on the subject, she remembers one particularly difficult evening while trying to conceive:

"I'm in the ladies room of the Beverly Hills Hotel for what I think must be the fifteenth time this evening. The fifth time in just the past hour. So what's that ... every 12 minutes now I'm checking to see if I'm getting my period? I must be going nuts. No, I must be there already and I'm the only person who doesn't know it. It's for sure our dinner partners know it! The look on their faces when I excused myself this last time pretty much cinched the fact that Guy and I won't be on their 'A' list for any future dinner plans. Yeah, I'm Cindy Margolis. The Most Downloaded Woman. But tonight ... and for so many nights now, I'm just one in the estimated 9.3 million other women each year who is also trying so desperately to have a child."

Though her journey was successful, Margolis' trip was so stressful and heartbreaking she decided to become the spokesperson for RESOLVE, the national fertility association. "Struggling with infertility is so very hard physically, emotionally and financially," she says. "It is devastating how insurance companies don't fully fund fertility procedures nor help with surrogacy or adoption. My passion for infertility awareness, education and support is very powerful."

In the Beginning
Margolis' struggle with fertility began when she met and married the man of her dreams, restaurant owner Guy Starkman. "I knew he would be an amazing father," Margolis says. "He was compassionate, kind, had more patience and was more tolerant of others than anyone else that I have ever met in my life. We wanted to start a family right away and prayed we would conceive on our honeymoon. I would have been thrilled if I came back with morning sickness. But unfortunately, that was the beginning of month after frustrating month of getting our hopes up that we would get pregnant only to be sadly disappointed."

Looking back, Margolis says she always had a sixth sense that getting pregnant wouldn't be easy for her. During her 20s, when so many of her girlfriends went through major pregnancy scares, she never did. She said it was amazing because she had a serious boyfriend, and while they practiced safe sex most of the time, there were many times when they did not. She wasn't overly surprised when it didn't happen for her and Guy right away, but then it didn't happen for months – and then over a year.


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