Michelle Yeoh’s inability to have kids led to the collapse of her first marriage.
Michelle Yeoh felt like a “failure” for not having children with her first husband.
The 62-year-old actress has revealed that she wanted to start a family and even underwent fertility treatment in a bid to have children with Dickson Poon.
The movie star – who was married to Dickson between 1988 and 1992 – said on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’: “I think the worst moment to go through is every month you feel like such a failure. And then you go, why? And I think at some point you stop blaming yourself. I go, there are certain things in your body that doesn’t function in a certain way. That’s how it is.
“You just have to let go and move on. And I think you come to a point where you have to stop blaming you.”
Michelle – who married motor racing executive Jean Todt last year – is still trying to come to terms with not being able to have children.
She shared: “Sometimes, honestly, I still think about it.
“I’m 62. Of course, I’m not going to have a baby right now, but the thing is we just had a grandchild.
“Then you feel you’re still very, very blessed because you do have a baby in your life.”
Michelle’s inability to have children actually led to the collapse of her first marriage.
The actress said: “That’s why this dialogue between a couple is so important. Like, if one wants [a baby] and the other doesn’t, this is something you have to face right at the beginning, because along the way, there will be a lot of hurt and difficult times.
“And so I think it was very brave on our path to admit, to say, ‘OK, let’s not drag this out, because that’s what we are doing. Because, we tried.'”
Michelle Yeoh felt like a ‘failure’ for not having children
