The Hills Star Lo Bosworth Reveals the 6-Year IVF Battle Behind Her Baby — Months After Giving Birth
Four months after welcoming her first child with husband Dom Natale, The Hills alum Lo Bosworth opens up on Instagram about her IVF road to motherhood and the pivotal choices — from doctors to labs — that shaped it.
Lo Bosworth just pulled back the curtain on how she got to mom life, four months after welcoming her first baby with husband Dom Natale. It is personal, specific, and yes, a little messy — the kind of timeline you only share when you have finally made it to the other side.
"Every IVF journey looks so different. It can be a little bit of a black box, with one round totally different from the next... Ours was a journey of endurance and we are so, so lucky we got our miracle baby."
On Monday, April 6, the 39-year-old posted a carousel on Instagram that walks through the whole process — from trying solo to surgery to the transfer that finally stuck. If you have ever tried to decode IVF acronyms at 2 a.m., this will feel familiar.
How Lo got here
- 2020: She started IVF on her own. Her AMH (a blood test that estimates how many eggs you have left) came back on the low side. They retrieved eight eggs, and she did what everyone does at that stage: stared at the number and wondered what it actually meant.
- 2022: Round two. No success. Around this time she met Dom Natale.
- 2024: Round three with Dom. More eggs this time, and finally, embryos — the first real hopeful turn in the story.
- Early 2025: A curveball diagnosis — endometriosis. She had surgery to clear tissue in her pelvis and appendix and to remove fibroids before moving ahead with more transfers.
- April 2025: Transfer day. This one worked.
- July 2025: She and Dom quietly got married.
- January: Their daughter, Nelle, arrived two weeks ahead of schedule. On January 15, Lo announced it with, "Our girl Nelle is here... she started the year by surprising us two weeks early, but really, she was right on time."
Four months later: gratitude, clarity, and a new mic
In the same April post, Lo framed the whole thing for anyone in the thick of it: the choices matter (doctors, labs, meds, lifestyle), each round can play out differently, and sometimes you keep going — and sometimes you cannot. She calls Nelle their miracle, and you can feel the relief between the lines.
She has also spun that experience into something public-facing. On March 18, she launched a motherhood podcast, "Tell Me I'm a Good Mom," with Dear Media. In a statement about the show, she said the goal is unfiltered conversations where moms actually talk to each other — not just get talked at. Partnering with Dear Media made sense to her because they build supportive platforms for women, which is the lane she wants to be in.
In the trailer, Lo points out that she has spent the last decade building Love Wellness products for millions of women, but nothing has rattled her (in a good way) like having Nelle. The podcast lives in that space: becoming a mom in real time, where parenthood is weirdly public, babies get all the data tracking, and mothers — the identity shift, the learning curve, the headspace — often get sidelined. She is trying to flip that.
Bottom line: long road, happy ending, and now a platform that might make someone else's road a little less lonely.