Kellie Gerardi has space-tacular news.
The astronaut announced that she’s six weeks pregnant six months after sharing that she’d suffered her fourth pregnancy loss.
“crying in the parking lot of my IVF clinic again, but this time happy tears,” Kellie, who shares daughter Delta, 7, wit husband Steven Baumruk, captioned a video of herself getting an ultrasound on Instagram Aug. 28. “Seeing that flicker is everything to me. We’re still far from out of the woods, but if me and this little cheerio-sized miracle can make it another few weeks together, I might finally graduate from my IVF clinic this time.”
The 36-year-old added in text on top of the video, “pov: my 6 week pregnancy scan for a heartbeat following loss.”
In the emotional clip, she is visibly emotional as she received the good news before leaving the doctor’s office with a printed out ultrasound scan.
“I know I’m not out of the woods yet,” Kellie, who suffers from secondary infertility, wrote on the second video, “but I feel like I just finally let out a breath that I’ve been holding for weeks. Grow, baby, grow!”
The researcher’s news comes almost a year after she started IVF last fall, which is a journey that she’s been very open with sharing with her followers on social media.
Kellie, who’s planning to go to space next year, shared that she’d been cleared to go through another round of IVF back in June following her February miscarriage.
“It’s an extremely bittersweet time for me and my emotions about it are all over the map because I’m still reeling from the shock of my loss, but I’m trying to channel hope and optimism,” she shared on Instagram at the time. “We have 3 embryos and at least two opportunities for transfer attempts this summer (based on latest timing for my research crew’s science spaceflight in 2026) — if both transfer attempts failed this summer, we’d try the third after 2026.”
In fact, Kellie, who has documented her IVF and embryo transfer process over the last few months, revealed that she was fully prepared to have to share a completely different type of news with her community on social media.
“I was prepared to post & ghost and put my phone on airplane mode for a while to disappear to grieve again,” she wrote on Instagram Aug. 28. “Instead, I got the news I’ve been praying for.”
“While my doctor and I are both very clear-eyed that we’re not out of the woods yet,” Kellie went on, “I’m very committed to celebrating every single morning that I wake up pregnant, and I have immense hope to make it out of the first trimester and graduate from my IVF clinic this time.”
Keep reading for more stars who have been open about their fertility struggles…
Bella Robertson
The Duck Dynasty star and husband Jacob Mayo have been open about why it’s important for them to give insight into their fertility struggles on her family’s new reality series.
“We share the story of infertility in the show and that’s something that we haven’t really shared publicly that much, but that’s something that others just don’t know.” Bella said in a joint May 2025 interview with Jacob for Us Weekly. “When you just look at someone on social media, you can’t know what anyone’s going through.”
For them, it not only “felt right” but allowed the pair to be their “authentic selves on this new show.”
Olivia Culpo
Two years before the former Miss Universe and Christian McCaffrey shared they were expecting their first baby, she detailed how her endometriosis diagnosis may lead to future fertility issues.
“I want to have kids, but I want to make sure that I can,” Culpo, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2020 and subsequently had surgery to treat it, shared in a November 2022 episode of The Culpo Sisters. “It could be really hard for me to have babies.”
“Endometriosis can affect your fertility in a lot of different ways,” she continued. “You can have endometrial tissue growing near or on your ovaries, it can affect the quality of your eggs, scar your fallopian tubes.”
Caelynn Bell
Bachelor Nation’s Caelynn shared a candid message about her and husband Dean Bell’s difficulty conceiving in the years since their 2023 wedding.
“It’s hard,” Caelynn explained in a March 2025 YouTube video. “I’m putting way less pressure on myself than I was in the first few months of trying.”
Although the process has been emotionally challenging, Caelynn is remaining positive as she and her husband get medically tested to “figure out what’s going on.”
Julianne Hough
The Dancing With the Stars cohost has been open about her struggles with endometriosis, a female reproductive disease, and has been working to preserve her fertility for when she feels ready to try and have a baby.
In June 2025, she shared that she froze her eggs for the third time.
Whitney Port
Since welcoming Sonny with husband Tim Rosenman in 2017, the Hills alum has been candid about the ups and downs of her fertility journey, including her two pregnancy losses and her surrogate’s two miscarriages.
In July 2024, Whitney confirmed she’s preparing for a second egg retrieval.
“I’m feeling definitely better than my last round because I know a little bit more what to expect,” she shared, “and I just have so much trust and faith in my doctor.”
But no matter what happens in their journey to welcome a second child, Whitney has been clear there is nothing lacking in her family of three.
“Especially now, as we embark on this fertility journey for number two, I know we are complete no matter what,” she wrote as part of a birthday tribute to her son on his 7th birthday in July 2024. “You are a blessing. We love watching you grow and are beyond grateful for how chill you are.”
Michelle Yeoh
The Everything Everywhere All At Once star—who married Jean Todt in 2023 after a 19-year engagement—once opened up about the challenges she experienced trying to conceive with her first husband, Dickson Poon.
“I always wanted to have children,” Michelle shared during a podcast appearance in November 2024. “I went and did fertility [treatments] to aid in the process. I think that’s the worst moment to go through is every month. You feel like such a failure.”
She continued, “At some point, you stop blaming yourself. There are certain things in your body that don’t function in a certain way. That’s how it is. You just have to let go and move on.”
Eve
The rapper, who shares son Wilde with husband Maximillion Cooper, once detailed a heartbreaking pregnancy loss she experienced due to an ectopic pregnancy while filming her sitcom Eve.
“It was 2006 when I found out that I was pregnant,” Eve wrote in her memoir Who’s That Girl?. “I had to have emergency surgery and stop filming the show for two weeks. I don’t know why I lied to everyone on set and said that my appendix had ruptured, really. Maybe because I was lying to myself.”
“If I faced losing my baby, then I didn’t know if two weeks would be enough emotional healing time,” she continued. “In the end, it was barely enough healing time for me physically, before I was right back to work on set. I had lost so much weight after the surgery, and my body was so frail.”
Mary Bonnet
The Selling Sunset star, who welcomed her son Austin at the age of 15, has been candid about her and husband Romain Bonnet‘s fertility journey.
“We don’t know what the outcome is going to be,” she told E! News in September 2024. “We’re just kind of taking it as it as it comes. I’ve been super busy right now with the book and with the season and everything. So, I know nothing’s going to happen if I’m stressed out and if I’m running around.”
And in addition to undergoing a surgery to rectify a septate uterus (when the uterus is divided into two parts by a membrane), Mary said she and Romain aren’t rushing into any decisions—and are happy with their dog.
“We have our fur baby though, Thor. Romaine is obsessed with him,” added the real estate agent. “So if it doesn’t happen, he says he’s OK. He’s got his little fur baby, and he is just beyond obsessed. We’ll be OK. What’s meant to be will be.”
Erin Andrews
The NFL sportscaster and her husband Jarret Stoll, who welcomed son Mack in July 2023, have had their own fair share of ups and downs amid their journey to parenthood—including navigating Erin’s cervical cancer diagnosis in 2017.
But having frozen her eggs before her cancer battle, she then underwent IVF to help her conceive a child—an experience she decided to share with the world.
“I just was so tired of keeping quiet,” she explained of sharing her struggles in a 2021 essay. “It was such a hard, painful journey. I think I went numb through most of it, because you just feel like a robot and you’re on this really unfair roller coaster that more times out of none, you’re going to get really bad news.”
She added, “I’m a vocal person, and I could speak from the heart and just talk about how crappy it was and that I get it for a lot of couples and families that are trying to have a child.”
