According to The Independent, Sara Pascoe has been open about her fertility struggles when conceiving her sons, born in 2022 and 2023 through IVF. ' She added, 'I only really spoke about infertility once I had children and it was reflexing. ' Pascoe didn't feel able to talk about IVF in her stand-up sets until her eldest child Theo was eight-months-old.
She then felt she wanted to share things with people at different stages of IVF. 'The other thing with comedy is that people won’t laugh unless they know you’re OK. You can’t tell them the stuff you’re not OK about,' Pascoe noted.
When we first started trying for children doing IVF, I couldn’t do stand-up about it because it was far too raw.
Data from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) shows that nearly 21,000 babies were born via IVF in 2024, up from 8,700 in 2000. 3 per cent in 2000. Pascoe praised those who conceive through IVF as 'so brave,' adding, 'It’s such a big thing to put your body through.
I only really spoke about infertility once I had children and it was reflexing. I also think that’s because I couldn’t be funny about it until I knew the ending.