On the Reality Life podcast with Kate Casey, the Vanderpump Rules star spoke up about her fertility journey and mental wellness.
Katie Maloney-Schwartz is sharing more details about her fertility struggles.
During an appearance on the Reality Life podcast with presenter Kate Casey, the Vanderpump Rules star, 34, went honest about her attempt to conceive with husband Tom Schwartz, describing how her tragic injury nearly a decade ago has influenced their road to pregnancy.
“I wanted to share it, not to gain sympathy, but to just open up a part of my past that maybe would have people connect with me a little more on what I’ve been through, maybe other people have been through something like that,” she said about her accident, in which she fell 25 feet through a skylight and suffered broken bones, a broken jaw, and a brain injury.
“When it came to Tom and I wanting to open up about our fertility, we had to start at the beginning,” she then explained, referencing her admission that she had gotten an abortion early on in their relationship — about one year after her accident. “And even now, when we’ve tried to get pregnant, I haven’t wanted to shame myself or be like, ‘Is it because I did this ten years ago?’ I don’t want to punish myself.”