Kristen Wiig is a very private person; she’s not on social media and rarely gives interviews to the press. The
Saturday Night Live alum and
Bridesmaids star may love to make us laugh, but she’s also always keen to take on new challenges, like dramatic films (
The Skeleton Twins), and even that
iconic “Chandelier” dance performance at the 2015 Grammy’s with Sia and Maddie Ziegler. In a new, rare interview with
InStyle, she opens up about her greatest challenge yet: motherhood, and her personal struggle to get there.Wiig, 47, and her fiancé Avi Rothman
welcomed twins earlier this year via surrogate, and despite the couple’s fierce protection of their privacy, she is opening up about their fertility struggles, the choice for surrogacy, and all the emotions in between.[video_embed id='1979871']RELATED: Kristen Wiig welcomes twins via surrogate[/video_embed]“We’ve been together for about five years, and three of them were spent in an IVF haze. Emotionally, spiritually, and medically, it was probably the most difficult time in my life,” Wiig admitted to In Style. “I wasn’t myself. There are so many emotions that go with it—you’re always waiting by the phone and getting test results, and it was just bad news after bad news. Occasionally there would be a good month, but then it was just more bad news. There was a lot of stress and heartache.”“It was a long f***ing time,” she continued, no holds barred. “It got to the point where I just kind of stopped talking about it entirely, because I would get sad whenever someone asked. It was just part of my life. I gave myself shots in airplane bathrooms and at restaurants—and those shots are no joke.”After IVF treatments proved to be too much of a rollercoaster emotionally for the couple (“It’s hard not to personalize it when you get a negative result. You go through so much self-deprecation, and you feel like your partner may be seeing you in a different way and all this other stuff we make up in our heads”), Wiig says she was resistant at first to the idea of surrogacy when her doctor suggested it.“I remember when our doctor mentioned going other routes, and I was just like, ‘Nope. Don’t ever bring that up again. I’m getting pregnant. I’m doing this.’ I finally realized that I just needed help. And, thank God, we found the most amazing surrogate,” she told the magazine.Once the twins were born, the
SNL alum says they tried to keep the news under wraps, but she dropped a few hints back in May during a return appearance on the show for the Mother’s Day special. “I don’t know if I truly appreciated my mom the first 45 years of my life. But this year I’m feeling especially grateful for her advice, her love,” she said
at the time. “I’m so thankful for all the things she’s taught me, like preparing me to be a mom myself.”Now that she’s knee deep in motherhood, Wiig, who finished filming her role in the upcoming
Wonder Woman 1984 before the COVID-19 global pandemic shut down all film productions, says she is enjoying the time away from work to just be all about babies, babies, babies.“We’ve sort of been quarantining since January because of the babies. We’re nesting, and we’re tired. Having two 9-month-olds is a lot! But they’re growing, and I can’t wait to see them every morning,” she gushed. “It was a very long road. But the little munchkins are here.”[video_embed id='2009788']Before you go: B.C. mom gives birth in driveway[/video_embed]
