Nancy Grace, John and Lucy in Good Housekeeping
CNN’s Nancy Grace appears in the June issue of Good Housekeeping with her fraternal twins John David and Lucy Elizabeth, 6 months. Inside, the 48-year-old host discussed finding love again after the death of her fiancé, why she refuses to confirm or deny the use of fertility treatments, uneasiness about expecting twins, their premature birth, being a working mom, and more.
Click below for the highlights.
On crying during the interview:
Oh, I’m so sorry. I just … I still can’t believe they’re here, you know? I can’t believe they’re mine and that this is my life. I just never believed this could happen to me.
On her refusal to discuss how her twins were conceived:
Nancy shared that she believes John and Lucy should hear the story first.
Also, on behalf of women everywhere who have gone through fertilitytreatments, it is my firm belief that what happens between your legs isnobody’s business but your own. Let me say this: They are my children.They look like me and my husband, and I can only hope that they get thebest of our qualities.
On finding out she was expecting two:
When I first heard it was twins, I was honestly a little put off. I thought, How could I possibly take all that love I was planning to give to one baby and split it in two? I worried I’d be giving them each 50 percent. But now I realize: You don’t have to split your love — you just grow more. Your heart just gets bigger and bigger.
On the pregnancy:
It was just such a roller-coaster ride, from the very beginning. First, right after I found out it was twins, I had an ultrasound where they couldn’t find the second heartbeat anymore. For over a week, I had to go around thinking that there was just one of them, and I was heartbroken. Then at another appointment, all of a sudden, they found the heartbeat again. I just ran home and e-mailed David, ‘Our twins are back.’ It was so incredible.
Carrying twins in her late 40s:
I just wasn’t prepared for how much a pregnancy in your 40s knocks you on your butt. It was one thing after another. At one point, in August, I thought I was going into early labor … while on vacation with my mother on some tiny island off the coast of Florida. I was in the back of this rural ambulance, on a three-hour ride to the nearest hospital. The driver was named Elvis, and I remember lying there thinking: This is not happening. I am not about to give birth in the back of Elvis’s truck.
On the twins premature arrival by emergency c-section:
I remember the doctor said to me, ‘How does November 4th sound for a birthday?’ And I was so out of it, I just looked at him and said in disbelief, ‘Is that today?’
The babies were in the NICU at one end of this big hospital, and I was at the other end. I was so weak that when the phone rang, I’d turn my head and stare at it: I couldn’t even summon the strength to pick up the phone. They’d wheel me over to the NICU, and I just felt so helpless. John David was only there for three weeks, but Lucy, they had to do CAT scans and stick these things in her eyes for tests, and she would cry this weak little cry … It was just horrifying. And I don’t want to take away from how wonderful it was to bring John David home, but I couldn’t help but feel like on the day that we did, Lucy was still there, begging me not to leave her. That’s really how it felt.
Let me tell you, once we had both our babies with us, it just stunned me to realize all the blessings I’ve been given. These babies are my miracles. I just can’t imagine spending an extra minute away from them.
On her husband, David Linch:
After I lost my fiancé, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again, so I felt being a wife and mother just wasn’t going to happen for me. I thought God had closed that door and given me my career instead. But then someone came into my life, and I realized: This is worth the risk.
[When I was sick and after the birth,] he never left my side. He slept in the hospital with me — but he couldn’t figure out how to unfold the sleeping chair and kept it half collapsed, accordion style. And I was having all these weird, feverish episodes, so I’d throw off the sheets and have the temperature turned all the way down, and he would have to sleep in his jeans, a shirt, his coat, and his hat. But he stuck with me the whole time.
On being dedicated to both work and home:
To suggest that you can’t be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous. If anything, now I feel even more passionate about fighting for victims. Now it gets to me so much whenever we cover a story about a child who has been harmed or a baby who has been abandoned that the camera has to cut away from me because I need a moment to pull myself together. It makes me angrier than ever.
Source: Good Housekeeping; Cover courtesy Good Housekeeping. Another photo of the twins is at the source link.
Blessings to Nancy & family!
