Minnie Driver Recalls Being Told She Was 'Barren' Before 'Miracle' Pregnancy at 37

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Minnie Driver is looking back at her pregnancy journey. The 52-year-old actress made an appearance on The Healthy Baby Show podcast, where she opened up about the birth of her first child, Henry, in 2008 after being told it was unlikely she could conceive. Click inside to read more… “I was told I couldn’t have children when I was 18,” she said. “This awful doctor just came into the room and he literally compared my uterus to the u-bend in a toilet and was like, ‘Nothing’s going through there.

You won’t be having children.’” “So I believed him and I believed him through my whole life,” Minnie continued.

The actress went on to say the doctor called her “barren,” which she said was an “absurd” way to describe a woman who was physically unable to carry a child. “What a ridiculous thing to tell them that they are empty, if that’s what barren means, it means dead.

A barren landscape, without fertility. It’s crazy,” she explained. Minnie said that given this context, it was shocking to learn she was going to be a mom 20 years later. “When I was 37, I woke up on January the 1st with the flu and I was so bummed,” she said. “I was like, I’ve got the flu.