Parenting & Family Quote by Cheryl Tiegs

The power here is in how unvarnished it sounds, coming from someone whose public job description was once essentially “effortless perfection.” Tiegs isn’t selling a redemption arc or a miracle ending; she’s insisting on the non-ending. The repetition of “we tried” does the heavy lifting: it mimics the obsessive calendar math of infertility, the way months become units of hope and measurement, not time. It also quietly pushes back against the cultural reflex to treat pregnancy as a reward for persistence.

The sentence keeps breaking apart, as if language itself can’t keep up with the experience. “Different methods and different -” trails off, suggesting the unglamorous sprawl of interventions (appointments, hormones, procedures) that don’t fit neatly into a sound bite. Then she names “in vitro” in plain speech, not as a celebrity flex but as a clinical fact, and the bluntness lands: technology is not a guarantee; it’s an expensive gamble with a body as the casino.

“Didn’t stick” is telling: an everyday phrase that turns an embryo into something like tape or glue, underscoring how the process forces people to talk about potential life in mechanical terms just to survive it emotionally. The final line - “didn’t produce a baby at all” - is almost bureaucratic in its flatness, a refusal to euphemize grief. In context, it reads like a corrective to a media culture that prefers women’s reproductive stories to be either triumphant or secret. Tiegs makes the failure speak, and by doing so, makes the silence around it harder to maintain.