Whitney Harbortrip to expand her family with her husband Tim Rosenman has faced its fair share of setbacks.
Port and Rosenman, who married in November 2015, welcomed son Sonny in July 2017. After Sonny’s arrival, the Hills alum suffered multiple pregnancy losses.
“It’s been seven years of trying since Sonny. I got pregnant about a year after I was born, and then it was miscarriage after miscarriage. I got pregnant but the pregnancies didn’t stick,” she said in a January 2026 interview with Spread the jelly. “Finally, I was told my chances would be better with a fertility doctor. I went to one who came highly recommended and began the process of egg retrieval, embryo freezing and IVF.”
While struggling with secondary infertility, Port and Rosenman considered surrogacy as an option. After finding a match and completing two transfers, the surrogate miscarried.
“We decided to go the surrogacy route late last year after a very long journey of not being able to conceive on our own and having so many things go wrong,” Port said on the April 2025 episode of her “With Whit” podcast. “We found an amazing replacement and ended up doing two transfers with the replacement. Both transfers ended up aborted.”
Whitney Port and Tim Rosenman are everyone’s couple goals. The couple met in the mid-2000s at a birthday dinner for one of Port’s ex-boyfriends. “Tim was there. And I sat across from him,” she told She Knows in 2014. “I left dinner saying to a mutual friend, ‘Oh my God. Who is that (…))
Although Port’s journey to expand her and Rosenman’s family has not gone as planned, she has been open about her journey and remains hopeful of giving Sonny a sibling.
Keep scrolling for Port’s best quotes about her fertility journey:
Whitney Port recalls feeling “incomplete” amid fertility struggles
During a January 2026 interview with Spread the Jelly, Whitney Port explained how she never expected it. maternity journey to go out the way he did.
“I don’t think motherhood is anything like what I imagined. I never thought I would be the mother of an only child. I always knew I wanted more than one,” she told the network. “I didn’t imagine that, and that’s been kind of weird for me. My identity as a mother still doesn’t feel fully established because I feel incomplete. I really do.”
Port added that while she is grateful to have Sonny, the struggle to conceive a second child has left her feeling insecure.
“That sounds horrible, but there’s this feeling that it’s not enough, or it’s not that hard, it’s not that much to balance, or it’s not the whole picture,” he continued. “And I carry that insecurity. I’ve worked around it a lot. Most of the time, I’m able to say to myself, ‘OK, if it’s just us, it’s wonderful.'”
Whitney Port didn’t feel she deserved to use a substitute
As she struggled to conceive a second child, Whitney Port confessed that she felt unworthy of using a surrogate.
“I felt like I hadn’t done everything yet, so I didn’t deserve this option. I rejected the idea for a while,” she told Spread the Jelly. “Then I started talking to people who had used surrogates and had similar experiences. I decided to take my power back and see it as a privilege; I don’t need to keep putting my body through after six years of trying. I was 41 and I was losing myself.”
Whitney Port’s candid update on the egg retrieval process
Whitney Port gave an update on how she had gotten ahead of one egg retrieval.
“It’s not the physical discomfort (which totally sucks: swelling, bruising, swelling, heaviness) but the emotional discomfort. Hormones make me feel like I can’t handle anything, like everything is the worst,” Port wrote via Instagram in August 2024. “And I’m nervous because there’s no way it’s going to go away. My energy is non-existent and I feel like I’m not performing as I should be as a wife, mother, sister, friend, partner. work, etc.
As the former reality star wrestled with her emotions, she expressed her gratitude for the support she’s received amid her fertility struggles.
“I’ll be ready to get back to thank you soon, but I’m not quite there yet. Maybe it’s pessimistic, but I don’t want to force any feelings either. I can’t thank you enough for your support and words of encouragement,” he concluded.
Why Whitney Port opened up about her fertility journey
In an October of 2023 Us Weekly cover, Whitney Port explained why she started sharing her struggles online.
“At first it wasn’t (difficult to discuss), and then the more I posted it, it was. Not because I had any negative responses, but it became something I had to talk about and remember all the time,” she exclusively said. we at that time. “It had already taken over my life, and then it took over my professional life. As a digital creator, you’re in this world of showing your personal life as part of your business. So I felt like it was becoming the conversation, and it was all-encompassing.”