'Home Town' Star Erin Napier Urges Fans Not to Ask Questions About a Woman's Fertility
"Why not just have a baby?" It's a seemingly innocuous question, but it's often a loaded one. And Home Town star Erin Napier used her platform this week to gently urge HGTV fans not to ask questions about a woman's fertility.
"It’s such an innocuous, harmless seeming thing to offer a mama who’s missing the sweetness of babyhood as her toddler grows up. And it seems so simple to offer that same advice to the couple who’ve been married 10 years," Napier wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of her young daughter Helen. "The truth is rarely that simple."
"There are women I love who want babies desperately and their bodies won’t let them. Women grieving miscarriages that happen in secret. Couples trying to adopt, who keep finding disappointment through fostering when the baby is given back to drug-addicted mothers," she continued. "People awaiting trips overseas to bring home a baby that feels like it will never come because of travel bans. Mothers in their 30s whose bodies have stopped making another baby an option suddenly."
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"Please, I gently urge you. Think of those people before you offer that advice," the designer concluded. "That simple question can be so very hard to answer sometimes."
Napier's Instagram post arrived the same day as fellow HGTV star Mina Starsisak Hawk announced she was expecting after overcoming a less than one percent chance of getting pregnant.
“There were so many happy tears,” the Good Bones headliner told People magazine in an exclusive interview. “We are incredibly lucky.”
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