Most millennials will know Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola from her actuality TV days on the cultural phenomenon often called Jersey Shore. Giancola appeared on the MTV hit for a number of seasons earlier than bowing out. She has lately joined her former castmates on the reboot, Jersey Shore: Household Trip, and now, she is getting actual about her journey with IVF.
Giancola, 37, informed Web page Six’s Digital Reali-Tea podcast that her expertise with in vitro fertilization (IVF) and making the selection to offer viewers a glimpse on the “very scary course of” has been emotionally draining.
“I’m nervous, I’m so nervous,” she mentioned of sharing such an intimate a part of her life with the world.
“I’m going by it on the present, however I used to be so nervous about the entire thing … I wasn’t positive what to movie. It was only a scary course of generally as a result of it’s so private.”
Giancola — who additionally suffers from endometriosis — revealed her plan to have a baby with fiancé Justin Might utilizing the assistance of IVF within the present’s season 7B premiere.
“I really feel like I’m nonetheless nervous to look at it and I’m nonetheless nervous to see what individuals say,” she continued, anticipating {that a} portion of watchers might not agree along with her path to potential being pregnant.
“It’s a really susceptible stage in my life. It nonetheless is and I’m nonetheless going by it, so I don’t understand how I’m going to be watching it. And I feel that’s why I used to be so nervous within the first place as a result of I didn’t know if I’d have the ability to deal with it.”
Giancola saved her privateness from MTV cameras inside physician appointments, however she did permit filming of her self-administering hormone injections and explaining to castmates about her IVF journey.
“In the direction of the tip [of filming], I began to open up a bit bit extra and it was good to get the women’ help,” she says of co-stars Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Deena Cortese and Angelina Pivarnick.
“You type of see the way it all performs out,” she added. “I’m nonetheless on this journey and I’m nonetheless going by it, and it’s a troublesome journey nevertheless it’s good to listen to different’s individuals’s tales and … having the help there’s simply actually, very nice.”
Earlier than Giancola felt snug opening as much as her castmates, she turned to social media for solidarity.
“Some individuals don’t imagine in IVF and stuff, so I used to be nervous to inform anyone,” she explains. “I used to be leaning on different platforms like Instagram or TikTok and seeing what different individuals have been going by.”
Ultimately, Giancola felt compelled to face up and share her personal story.
“By watching and studying from [social media users], I used to be beginning to notice perhaps I ought to speak about this,” she tells Digital Reali-Tea.
“Or perhaps I ought to come out and speak about this as a result of perhaps another person can relate to me, or perhaps I will help anyone else, or perhaps anyone else can simply share their story or their journey and simply assist me in another method,” she added.
Giancola credit her fiancé Justin Might for being her “rock and spine.”
“We’re going by it collectively,” she says. “So we’ve had one another.”
Giancola froze her eggs at 35. In a clip from the present, she talked with castmates Snooki and Pivarnick about her wrestle to check a household as a single girl.
“It sucks to be a lady at this age,” Giancola mentioned. “It truly is horrible, it is horrible.”
“I bought my eggs frozen,” she mentioned within the clip. “I am over it. At 36, I in truth thought I would be married with children dwelling in some home someplace and it is simply not the place I am at proper now in my life.”
The proprietor of Sweetheart Coast boutique on the Ocean Metropolis boardwalk additionally declared, on the time of the interview, that she wasn’t in a rush to begin a household.
“I am not dashing,” Sammi mentioned. “I do not wish to really feel that stress to try this. I do not wish to become old in any respect.”
Two years later, Giancola appears prepared! Wishing her nothing however excellent news.
