Jimmy and his spouse, Nancy, opened up about their fertility struggles in a 2020 episode of The Tonight Present. The couple all the time knew they wished to have kids, but it surely took them “5 years of actually, actually, actually, actually, actually deciding not to surrender,” Nancy defined, earlier than having their two daughters.
“At a sure level it needed to change into virtually like a job as a result of it’s method too emotional to reside…by way of that,” Nancy mentioned. “So that you simply hold going and going and going, and in the event you really need one thing, you simply make it occur. And you’ve got all of this stuff the place you go, ‘Yeah, however I might by no means try this. Sure, however I might by no means try this, …’ Then, rapidly, you’re like, ‘Hey, I’ll try this. If it’s for my household, I’ll do something.’”
Jimmy described the method as “loopy” and mentioned “at one level, it was simply photographs and issues and ingesting bizarre teas” as he and Nancy tried to conceive. Nancy additionally inspired others going by way of fertility issues to stay hopeful of their journey.
“I feel if anybody’s on the market having the dream, don’t hand over,” Nancy added. “As a result of I spotted, too, that not like even turning into a multibillionaire, you possibly can come upon a lottery ticket and win it and win the lottery, however you’ll not ever come upon a baby you can love and have as your loved ones. So don’t hand over.”
