It may seem like Tyra Banks has it all, but there's one thing missing from her life, and it's something she's struggled with for years.
As a CEO, talk show host and entrepreneur, the 41-year-old former supermodel has always dreamed of being a mom. "When I turned 40, the one thing I was not happy about is that I did not have kids," Banks told People. "I'm like, 'Damn, the clock is ticking!' Since I was 24, I used to say every year, 'I will have kids in three years.' I kept saying it over and over again. Because my business is very entrepreneurial. I'm not for hire, so I have to do everything. I kept trying to find that time for that to happen."
Banks is the creator of "America's Next Top Model" and just launched the daytime talk show "FABLife," but her busy schedule didn't stop her from trying. She's been dating photographer Erik Asla for two years now, and the two have tried over and over again, and even underwent IVF procedures, but nothing seemed to work.
"When you're like, 'OK, I'm just going to do it,' then it's not so easy as you get older," she continued to say. "I've had some not happy moments with that, very traumatic moments. It's difficult as you get older. It's not something that can just happen."
Despite the fertility struggles, Banks has always kept an open mind and never gave up hope. She even revealed that she wants "a litter" of children one day. "I want to be the kind of mom where my child can come to me for anything," she said.
On Monday's episode of "FABlife," Banks and co-host Chrissy Teigen open up about their own personal struggles to have children, according to ABC News. Teigen, 29, met her husband John Legend when she was 20, and she admits that she's sick of hearing people ask when they'll have children. "Because who knows what somebody is going through," she says. "Who knows if somebody is struggling." She then went on to explain how they would have had children by now, but it's been troubling and it's been a "process" for them.
"Anytime somebody asks me if I'm going to have kids, I just am like, one day you're going to ask that to the wrong girl who is really struggling and it's going to be really hurtful to them and I hate that," Teigen explains. "So I hate it, stop asking me."
Banks then decides to come out with something she's been waiting to say for "so long." "I just feel like we are so hard on each other and so judgmental of each other," she says as she tears up. "And a woman that is divorced three times is more normal than a woman that has not been married. And I am so tired of seeing on my social media, 'Why don't you have kids?' You don't know what I'm going through. You have no idea."
