The Hills’ alum Whitney Port is candidly opening up about the emotional highs and lows of her ongoing surrogacy journey.
The reality star, 40, discussed the deeply personal process during Friday’s episode of her podcast, With Whit, where she shared an update on next steps alongside her husband, Tim Rosenman.
‘The surrogacy journey is on a positive trajectory,’ Port said. ‘We just signed our contract and are now awaiting next steps for a transfer, but it’s hard to explain unless you’re in it.’
She went on to describe the emotional complexity of the experience, adding: ‘It’s hopeful and it’s exciting, but it’s also tiring and exhausting, like, you have all the hope in the world and you want to spread all this positive energy, but you’ve also had such failures that it’s hard for you to imagine anything going right.’
Port and Rosenman welcomed their son, Sonny, back in 2017.
In the years that followed, Port experienced multiple miscarriages, leading the couple to pursue parenthood through a gestational carrier in 2023 after facing challenges with infertility.
The Hills’ alum Whitney Portis candidly opening up about the emotional highs and lows of her ongoing surrogacy journey
‘Some days I feel fragile, other days I feel scared. Most days I feel, like, “Let’s go, let’s do this,” and most of the time, I feel all of it in the same hour,’ she shared.
While the couple is preparing to schedule an embryo transfer, Port admitted she feels anxious knowing she has only three embryos remaining.
‘I’ve kind of told myself right now, “If these three don’t work, we’re probably not going to continue to try,”‘ she revealed, noting she’s unsure she could emotionally or physically go through another egg retrieval.
Still, she stressed the importance of maintaining hope throughout the process.
‘I’m a firm believer in manifesting and visualizing something and throwing positive energy out on it,’ she said.
Earlier this year, Port revealed she has suffered five miscarriages.
While appearing on the SHE MD podcast, hosted by Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi and Mary Alice Haney, she reflected on her fertility journey in detail.
‘My first pregnancy was extremely easy. I went off my birth control and within a couple months I was pregnant. I had no issues, no complications,’ she shared. ‘I didn’t feel great, but it was a completely healthy pregnancy. I was 32.’
The reality star discussed the deeply personal process during Friday’s episode of her podcast, With Whit, where she shared an update on next steps alongside her husband, Tim Rosenman
‘The surrogacy journey is on a positive trajectory,’ Port said. ‘We just signed our contract and are now awaiting next steps for a transfer, but it’s hard to explain unless you’re in it’
She continued: ‘About a year after I had Sonny, I got pregnant again and then miscarried at around eight weeks, and I had another miscarriage after that,’ adding that her doctor suggested seeing a fertility specialist at that point.
‘At this point, I was 34 or 35. I’ve had a total of five miscarriages. One at eight weeks, a few at nine weeks, and one ended up at 11 weeks. All with heartbeats.’
In 2024, Port also revealed that a previously selected surrogate decided to step away from the process.
Speaking on her podcast, she explained that the surrogate did not want to stop taking a hair-loss medication – a decision Port said she understood.
‘Granted, I feel like there’s probably a different reason, which is totally okay,’ she said.
Port went on to share that her doctor suggested broader political uncertainty may have played a role.
Port and Rosenman became parents in 2017 with the birth of their son, Sonny
‘My doctor actually said after Trump won there were a ton of surrogates that ended up dropping out, or decided that they didn’t want to do it just because of the uncertainty in the landscape of reproductive rights for women,’ she explained.
She added: ‘So maybe she got spooked, who knows. Like obviously nothing personal, this is such a big thing, I completely understand. I just was extremely disappointed. We had not gone down a far, far road with her but things were looking good.’
The reality star said the setback left her feeling overwhelmed about starting the search again.
‘So, now we’re just in this space of needing to find another surrogate and that just feels really daunting for me,’ she shared, revealing she asked Rosenman to take the lead. ‘This is an extremely sensitive situation for me and he has better follow through when it comes to this so just let him spearhead this.’
In the years that followed, Port experienced multiple miscarriages, leading the couple to pursue parenthood through a gestational carrier in 2023 after facing challenges with infertility
Port has also been open about the immense financial toll of the process.
She previously revealed that after turning to surrogacy, her surrogate experienced two losses of her own, following Port’s three miscarriages and a chemical pregnancy.
In the summer of 2024, Port said she began a new round of IVF egg retrieval with a different surrogate, estimating the total cost of the journey would reach approximately $200,000.
‘Can you even believe that that’s just the charge just to find a new surrogate let alone the surrogacy fees?’ she said, referring to the $15,000 cost to re-match alone. ‘This whole thing is probably gonna end up costing us I feel like $200,000.’
She added: ‘I can’t even believe that I’m saying that, but I know that so many people that have followed along have brought up the financial stress that comes with this, and it is real.’
