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michelle and gabby aren't alone: what black women need to know about infertility. infertility is an unspoken shame for many black women. thankfully, more and more of us are chipping away at that stigma. just this week, both michelle obama and gabrielle union went public with details about their journeys to have babies. the former first lady revealed that her te*nage daughters, malia and sasha, were conceived via in-vitro fertilization. actress gabrielle union has been open about her attempts to carry a baby in the past, and she and her husband, dwyane wade, announced the visibility matters. so does access to good information and quality healthcare, things too many of us do not have. we talked to dr. lori. dr. hollins, thank you so much for taking some time to talk to me. before we really jump into this conversation, i'd love to know what. four years of training after medical school and then i did an additional two years of fellowship training and what we call endocrinology or hormones related to female reproduction and infertility. basically what i do on an everyday basis is what i call high tech fertility treatments. i see women who, for whatever reason, cannot get pregnant or have problems getting pregnant. the definition of infertility is one year of trying without using any type of birth control method or protection. i do things like we call in vitro fertilization where we basically give women fertility drugs and harvest their eggs. i do things like donor egg where women donate eggs to a woman because her egg reserve isn't very good. i do surgery for fair amount of time before i actually did this fellowship training.. my maternal grandma had nine children. my paternal grandma had eight children. it's like they could sneeze and get pregnant. it seems that. today women are having more difficulty having children. what has changed? well, i think the main thing that's changed is women are waiting longer to have children. my mother, her first pregnancy was age 18.