Infertility – The Celebrity Confession du Jour?

It seems that more and more celebrities are celebrating motherhood lately. It also seems that more and more celebrities are becoming comfortable with talking about their struggles to get there. Cindy Margolis wrote a book, Dixie Chicks Martie Maguire and Emily Robison have both spoken freely about their IVF treatments. Sportscaster Michele Tafoya is the latest to publicly discuss a subject that has been taboo for far too long.

I think that anytime one goes public with a private piece of oneself, it requires some bravery. You have to be ready for outsiders to judge you, question you, ridicule you, even worse, accuse you of self-promotion

This month at WCCO-TV, local girl Michelle Tafoya is using Thursday nights to share with viewers a lifetime’s worth of medical and behavioral issues. Last night at 10 pm, she shared her youthful battle with anorexia (video here, but you have to go select it from the menu at right). The previous Thursday, she shared her adult battle with fertility issues.

It’s beginning to feel like a cliffhanger. Next Thursday at 10? Some of the many diseases and disorders still available include: alopecia, arachnophobia, bulimia, kleptomania, gambling addiction, foot-fetishism, pyromania, and glossolalia.

But here’s the thing:

In an age where tabloids and other media outlets are just waiting for a celebrity to trip or her skirt to slip aside and reveal some cellulite, in an era when even a New York Times magazine article by a well-respected writer finds it ok to speculate which older female celebrities were assisted in their fertility, why not own your own infertility story? Why not be the one in charge of telling that story, instead of waiting for Entertainment Tonight to come to their own conclusions?

I like Michele even more for sharing her story. What do you think?