Adrienne Houghton holds on to faith that she will become a mom: ‘It will happen’
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By Taylor Thompson // People // EEW Magazine Online
Believers are tasked with walking by faith and not by sight, and Christian media personality, Adrienne Houghton, is living out this biblical principle day by day.
The 38-year-old Emmy-winning co-host of “The Real,” which wrapped its final episode Friday after eight seasons and more than 1,300 episodes, got personal about her persistent faith regarding God opening her womb.
“I’m either the most resilient human being, or I am wildly delusional,” said Houghton during a recent segment discussing promises we have made to ourselves and vow to always keep.
Despite multiple failed cycles of In vitro fertilization (IVF) over the past five years, the wife of Grammy-winning songwriter, Israel Houghton, said, during disappointing times, she will sulk briefly before quickly emotionally rebounding.
“We get these bad notices, and it’ll be like, it didn’t work this time,” she explained. “I’ll be sad for a day, and I’ll cry, and Israel will be so worried about me –I mean, like, call my mom and be like, she’s okay—and like the next day, I know this sounds psychotic, I’ll be like, ‘Okay, I found three new baby names!’ And he’ll be like, ‘You’re good?’”
The Cheetah Girls star, who got hitched in 2016 in a fairytale wedding in France, has been open with her audience about her fertility journey, sometimes through tears.
But in 2019, Houghton publicly rejected being characterized as a woman with “fertility struggles.”
“Not everybody gets pregnant the first time they try. For me, it just hasn’t been that way,” she said in an interview with OK! Magazine. “I do want to clarify; I don’t have fertility issues.”
Admonishing others not to attach labels to people, she continued, “You shouldn’t throw that around. But we do have to be just more sensitive in general. I thought I could try, and it would just happen, and it didn’t work out that way, but I do believe in God’s timing. I’m in no rush, and we’re enjoying ourselves.”
Despite the negative outcomes thus far, Houghton remains hopeful and positive. “I don’t know why, but I refuse to let this be the end of my story. I know that it’s not. I love it that I tell myself, it’s not a question of will I be a mother, it’s a question of when. And I promise myself— and I’m sticking to it—that it will happen.”
Fellow co-host, Loni Love, fought back tears while encouraging Houghton. “God makes no mistakes,” she said. “And it’s all in His time, and if you say you believe in Him, it will happen.”
“I know,” Houghton chimed in, with Love adding, “You keep dreaming big.”
Ending on a high note, the faith-filled celebrity concluded, “I’m dreaming it, and I’m holding on to that, and that’s a promise I will never, ever, ever give up on.”
