Alex Cooper Shares Relatable Reason She Isn’t Ready to Have a Baby Yet

Alex Cooper Reveals Why She Isn’t Ready to Have a Baby Yet

Father Cooper isn’t ready to become a mother just yet.

A year after Alex Cooper and Matt Kaplan got married, the Call Her Daddy host shed rare insight into their plans to start a family.

“We ultimately decided that we wanted to start trying to get pregnant last summer,” the 30-year-olds said on the June 4 episode of her podcast. “And we were so excited.”

Soon after, Alex and Matt began prepping for a potential new member of the daddy gang.

“We started planning renovations on our house to build a nursery and upstairs kids’ bedrooms,” she said. “We told our families. Our date nights consisted of us talking about how excited we were to watch each other become parents. We started doubling down on what baby names we liked.”

But going off birth control, which she’d been on since she was 16, took a major toll on her body.

“I started to experience extreme vertigo and dizziness,” Alex shared. “I would be in interviews about to pass out. I would pass out in the shower. I was so f–king emotional all the time and it was frustrating.”

And by the time her cycle regulated, the physical symptoms had worsened. “Four to five months went by and I ended up getting my period back,” she said, “but my cramps were beyond excruciating to the point that my doctor considered that I may have PCOS.”

Then there was something new she considered: Maybe it wasn’t the right time to try to have a baby.

“As s–tty as all of this was, that things weren’t exactly going according to plan or our timeline about getting pregnant, my career on the other hand, had never been busier and never been bigger,” Alex—whose upcoming Call Her Alex docuseries follows her first podcast tour—explained. “Getting pregnant inevitably would mean I had to slow down.”

“I don’t know exactly when it hit me, but in the moments where I was being really honest with myself, which took a minute,” she said, “but I eventually realized I wasn’t ready.”

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And her husband completely understood where she was coming from.

“I know he’s gonna be the most incredible father to our babies,” she raved. “I realized I need time to live a little more before I enter the next beautiful chapter of my life.”

She continued, “I just felt in my body that I want to grind at work and I want to be selfish a little longer. I wanna enjoy what I’ve worked so f–king hard for. I wanna go on a weekend trip with my husband and f–k and have no responsibilities after the longest work week.”

For now, Alex will remain in what she calls her “newlywed era” and see how life goes.

“I pray to God I can even get pregnant when I start trying,” she added. “It may potentially be such a long road for me and my husband when we do decide the time is right, but we will cross that bridge together when we get there.”

And she’s not alone once she does start trying. Read on for what more celebrities have said about their journeys to parenthood…

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Whitney Port

Since welcoming her son Sonny with husband Tim Rosenman in 2017, the Hills alum has been candid about the ups and downs of her fertility journey, including her two pregnancy losses and her surrogate’s two miscarriages.

In July 2024, Whitney confirmed she’s preparing for a second egg retrieval. 

After sharing that she and Tim had attempted surrogacy only for the surrogate to suffer two miscarriages, in addition to Whitney herself experiencing two pregnancy losses, Whitney confirmed in July 2024 she was preparing for a second egg retrieval. 

“I’m feeling definitely better than my last round because I know a little bit more what to expect,” she shared, “and I just have so much trust and faith in my doctor.” 

But no matter what happens in their journey to welcome a second child, Whitney has been clear there is nothing lacking in her family of three. 

“Especially now, as we embark on this fertility journey for number two, I know we are complete no matter what,” she wrote as part of a birthday tribute to Sonny on his 7th birthday in July 2024. “You are a blessing. We love watching you grow and are beyond grateful for how chill you are.” 

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Michelle Yeoh

The Everything Everywhere All At Once star—who married Jean Todt in 2023 after a 19-year engagement—once opened up about the challenges she experienced trying to conceive with her first husband, Dickson Poon. 

“I always wanted to have children,” Michelle shared during a podcast appearance in Nov. 2024. “I went and did fertility [treatments] to aid in the process. I think that’s the worst moment to go through is every month. You feel like such a failure.” 

She continued, “At some point, you stop blaming yourself. There are certain things in your body that don’t function in a certain way. That’s how it is. You just have to let go and move on.”

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Eve

The rapper, who shares son Wilde with husband Maximillion Cooper, once detailed a heartbreaking pregnancy loss she experienced due to an ectopic pregnancy while filming her sitcom Eve.

“It was 2006 when I found out that I was pregnant,” Eve wrote in her memoir Who’s That Girl?. “I had to have emergency surgery and stop filming the show for two weeks. I don’t know why I lied to everyone on set and said that my appendix had ruptured, really. Maybe because I was lying to myself.”

“If I faced losing my baby, then I didn’t know if two weeks would be enough emotional healing time,” she continued. “In the end, it was barely enough healing time for me physically, before I was right back to work on set. I had lost so much weight after the surgery, and my body was so frail.”

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Mary Bonnet

The Selling Sunset star, who welcomed her son Austin at the age of 15, has been candid about her and husband Romain Bonnet’s fertility journey. 

“We don’t know what the outcome is going to be,” she told E! News in Sept. 2024. “We’re just kind of taking it as it as it comes. I’ve been super busy right now with the book and with the season and everything. So, I know nothing’s going to happen if I’m stressed out and if I’m running around.”

And in addition to undergoing a surgery to rectify a septate uterus (when the uterus is divided into two parts by a membrane), Mary said she and Romain aren’t rushing into any decisions—and are happy with their dog.

“We have our fur baby though, Thor. Romaine is obsessed with him,” added the real estate agent. “So if it doesn’t happen, he says he’s OK. He’s got his little fur baby, and he is just beyond obsessed. We’ll be OK. What’s meant to be will be.”

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Erin Andrews

The NFL sportscaster and her husband Jarret Stoll, who welcomed son Mack in July 2023, have had their own fair share of ups and downs amid their journey to parenthood—including navigating Erin’s cervical cancer diagnosis in 2017.

But having frozen her eggs before her cancer battle, she then underwent IVF to help her conceive a child—an experience she decided to share with the world. 

“I just was so tired of keeping quiet,” she explained of sharing her struggles in a 2021 essay. “It was such a hard, painful journey. I think I went numb through most of it, because you just feel like a robot and you’re on this really unfair roller coaster that more times out of none, you’re going to get really bad news.” 

She added, “I’m a vocal person, and I could speak from the heart and just talk about how crappy it was and that I get it for a lot of couples and families that are trying to have a child.” 

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