Tiffany Haddish Talks Fertility Struggles After Suffering 8th Miscarriage

Tiffany Haddish has opened up about fertility struggles, and her experience with suffering miscarriages.

“Well I’m going to be honest with you, this would be my eighth [miscarriage].”

“I’ve got a uterus shaped like a heart. It just won’t keep anything in. [I didn’t] want people saying: ‘Are you OK? Are you alright?’ Like a wounded animal, I just rather go in a cave by myself. Lick my wounds.”

“I had a lot of miscarriages. That has a lot to do with the endometriosis and misdiagnosis and all that stuff. Those miscarriages were as painful as a motherf—ker. I feel like a piece of my soul died every time. I don’t know if I am capable and I feel like that was God’s birth control [telling me], ‘He is not the one. That is not who you are supposed to be having a baby with.'”

She has also opened up about her interest in adoption, which she first mentioned when she was with now ex-boyfriend Common.

“I just want to bring to them survival skills, share everything that I know with them. Between 6 and 10, get them right in there, because you can mold their mind. They’re still malleable in a lot of ways until they’re 21, that’s what I think.”

“I had to put a pause on that [adoption] process because my business has picked up, and I feel when you take a child [in], you really need to be able to focus on them. I want to raise it. I want to raise the child. I want to give the child my knowledge and my love.”

“So I want to finish up a few more things, so that I can really focus. It’s one thing to have a dog and a garden and take care of that. But to have another human being that needs me and that I’m responsible for. I want to be present. I want to be all the way present. I don’t want somebody else doing that work.”

“Sharing everything that I know and pouring it into them and watching it manifest through their actions and their abilities. Also having somebody to watch TV with and laugh with that thinks I’m cool. Even if it’s only for a few years, kids are thinking for just a little while. Also somebody to teach all my recipes to and to be able to share this life, share this journey, with. [Somebody I can] be a beacon for and a safe place.”