The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Gloria Estefan

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

While Gloria Estefan was working hard to avoid a future in which she would need to use a wheelchair, she was dealt another devastating blow. Speaking with CBS News, the singer revealed that doctors told her she "'probably won't be able to have another child.'" A proud mom of one (son Nayib was born in 1980), Estefan had had her heart set on more kids. "That was my plan after that tour," she explained.

Making everything even more heartbreaking was the fact that she didn't feel like herself. "The scarring was traumatic," she told the Daily Mail, confessing, "For a long time, I felt undesirable as a woman." Recalling the first time she was intimate with her husband, she admitted, "It all felt very alien. My body wasn't my own any more."

Slowly, she worked through it, and, in 1992, Estefan's medical team gave her the all-clear: She could start trying to get pregnant. But try as she might, nothing happened. "It was incredibly stressful," Gloria told the Daily Mail. "For the first year we just kept on trying, not knowing if anything was wrong." Eventually, she opted for exploratory surgery during which doctors found the root of the problem: The bus crash's impact had caused one of her Fallopian tubes to shift. Surgeons fixed the issue, two rounds of fertility injections followed, and, finally, success! In 1994, Emily Marie Consuelo Estefan was born.

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