Pamela Anderson would like a baby girl-if she can find a husband

Pam Anderson is contemplating motherhood again – but only if she can find the right guy to marry.The model/actress has two sons by ex-husband Tommy Lee but she’s desperate for a little girl, and after a broken engagement with Kid Rock, she fears her hopes of remarrying are slim. She says, "A baby girl would be nice, but I’ll have to find a husband first."

Source: ContactMusic

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She does have hep C, right? And since that’s sexually transmitted, who would want to have “unprotected” sex with her and get liver cancer?

- sy on April 29th, 2005

I htink she might want to be in a stable loveing relationship for awhile before throwing another kid in the mix,I like her she a home town girl for me born not far like an hour form where i live.
I hope she finds what she is looking for.

- Michelle Anne on April 29th, 2005

Couldn’t she also pass Hep C on to a baby? Is there a vaccine for that?

- Catherine on April 29th, 2005

hepatitis C is a very common infection in the United States. Most of the time, infection becomes chronic (persistent), with about 20-30 percent of patients developing end-stage liver disease after 20-30 years. Transmission of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is through sex and contact with infected blood or body fluids. Until recently, hepatitis C was commonly caused by blood transfusion. Most people infected with HCV develop symptoms only after years of carrying the virus.
When one person is infected with HCV, there is about a 5 percent chance of transmitting the virus to his or her sexual partner. It is likely that condom use will prevent some of these cases. However, because of the relatively low likelihood of transmission, the United States Public Health Service has not recommended condom use between stable, monogamous partners.

HCV can be transmitted in the uterus from an infected mother to her baby. This risk also is estimated to be about 5 percent. While health authorities currently have no recommendations for any treatment to prevent this transmission, they do recommend that all babies born to HCV-infected mothers be screened for infection. This involves a blood test to detect evidence of HCV itself, rather than the usual method used for testing adults, which identifies antibodies made by the body in response to the virus. Since some of an infected mother’s antibodies can pass from her to the fetus during pregnancy, it would be difficult to determine whether HCV antibodies in the baby’s bloodstream were made by the immune system of the mother or the baby. The risk of breastfeeding seems to be very small, and the American Academy of Pediatrics does not recommend bottle-feeding by mothers infected with hepatitis C.

The risk to your baby seems to be much lower than 5 percent. You probably are not infected with hepatitis C, and if that is the case, there should be no risk to the baby at all. At worst, if you are infected, the risk of transmitting the virus to your child would be about 5 percent. You should be tested now. As I said above, there is no treatment recommended at this time to prevent prenatal transmission, but it would be comforting to know (if your test is negative) that your baby has no real risk of infection. The procedure involves only a simple blood test and poses absolutely no risk to you or your baby.

- Michelle Anne on April 29th, 2005

this was an artical about this question sorry should have posted this first.:

My husband is hepatitis C positive. He is not ill. I knew this when we were married, and we decided we would take it one step at a time. Our doctors say the chance of me getting infected is about 5 percent, so we do not use any protection during intercourse. However, I unexpectedly got pregnant. I am now 21 weeks. Does hepatitis C cause any problems to the unborn baby? Is there is any test I can take to find out if the baby has been affected?

- Michelle Anne on April 29th, 2005

5% seems damn high to me. People consider abortions when when the baby has more than 1/200 chance of developing down syndrome. That’s 0.5%!

- sy on April 29th, 2005

My husband got hep-c from a blood transfusion 25 years ago.He has no symptoms but follows a homeopathic regimen specically aimed at hep-c.When we decided to have children we spoke to my obgyn,who has been practicing for over 30 years in LA.He told us chances of passing it to the baby were almost impossible.We now have a boy and a girl(18 mo.and 1mo.) who are “beyond”healthy….but I would talk to your doctor for reassurance.

- jill on April 29th, 2005

She doesn’t have to have a relationship to have a baby, and it would likely have to be IVF or similar, because she had her tubes tied immediately following the birth of her 2nd son with Tommy, because she wanted 2 kids, really close together, so she’d have a family, they’d have a companion, and minimized time off her career getting back in shape. Saw her on a few interviews saying this, as well as articles, back then, so I know it wasn’t something fabricated. She was considering a child with Kid Rock, but the health thing was pretty iffy then, as I recall he proposed sooner than he planned to cheer her up because she was thought to be quite ill, and there was talk of her career ending, and I know she wasn’t seen for a significant period of time. Even her ex was sympathetic, it was after their court problems.

I would worry about a 5% chance, with this kind of thing it seems so risky, and it’s not like she hasn’t experienced pregnancy and motherhood,alot of couples with these issues never had that chance. However, there are some protocols that seem to be working for HIV positive women wanting a baby, so maybe this could be a possibility.
Still wouldn’t guarantee a girl though, and I think they aren’t yet encouraging gender selection in most fertility clinics.

Wasn’t she one of the women who breastfed despite implant surgery?

- Patti on April 30th, 2005

She could always adopt a baby or use a sperm donor. Anyways, whatever she decides to do I hope all works out well for her.

- Sam on April 30th, 2005