Jacey Duprie Welcomes Baby Boy After Secondary Infertility Diagnosis — See the Photos!

Mar. 15, 2025

Jacey Duprie is a mom of two!

Duprie, the creative director of Wyeth, a new women’s brand launching in October, reveals that she was diagnosed with secondary infertility after the birth of her first child.

“I knew something was wrong in my gut postpartum,” she explains. “I had always toyed with the idea of freezing embryos as an insurance plan. And so we just did it. I was like, before I fully heal from postpartum — because I was still struggling even a year later — I’m going to just freeze these embryos.”

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“Through that process, I learned that I had adenomyosis, and later found out that I have endometriosis, which has led to basically the doctors telling me that it’s not a good idea for me to carry and deliver,” she continues.

According to theMayo Clinic, endometriosis is a disorder in which the tissue similar to the tissue that typically lines the inside of a woman’s uterus grows outside of the uterus. Adenomyosis is atype of endometriosisthat only occurs in the uterus, according to the Seckin Endometriosis Center.

TheLiking Myself Backauthor says she and Leavitt started to discuss the idea of surrogacy after their daughter turned 2.

“It was a really difficult choice to make,” she admits. “I mean, it’s not your usual way of going about having a child. It feels, and this might sound weird, a little more transactional for lack of a better word, and a little less ideal. But once we were able to get past that part, then I was able to really deal with it from an emotional standpoint.”

Once Durprie and Leavitt began the process of looking for a surrogate, she says the “cards aligned so easily.”

“The very first surrogate family we met with, we were like it was too good to be true,” she recalls. “It just felt so right. The cards aligned so easily and we said, ‘This is the right family for us, and this is the right way to do it.’ "

Duprie says the couple and their surrogate have a “wonderful relationship” and planned to be in the delivery room with her. “It just feels very comfortable,” says Duprie. “She’s been so respectful of the process, and she’s such a lovely human. And she already has had three children of her own.”

The mom of two says she also plans to introduce her son to the surrogate’s family. “She’s given us the greatest gift of all, and it’s so cliche, but it’s amazing that we have people in the world that are willing to do that for other families,” she adds.

“I was really apprehensive about sharing my first pregnancy because it’s such an intimate thing,” she explains. “It just feels very important to keep things that are in that category of personal, family, health, all of that as private as I possibly can.”

In sharing her story, Duprie says she hopes to “bring more awareness around endometriosis and getting yourself checked out if you feel as though something is off with your body.”

She also hopes her experience will “open people’s eyes” to all the ways one can become a parent.

“I want to open people’s eyes up to other options,” she says. “Adoption, surrogacy, there are more ways than one on the path to creating a family.”

source: people.com