WAG Erin Holland reveals IVF journey has been ‘incredibly difficult and taxing’ as she shares her bruised belly from injections: ‘Fertility becomes the only thing you think about’

Erin Holland has shared the harrowing details of her IVF journey.

The Australian model, who has been trying to have a baby for several years, said this week that the process is exhausting and difficult.   

‘It’s been a really challenging couple of months to be honest,’ the 35-year-old told Confidential.

‘I think this whole journey to motherhood has been so much more incredibly difficult and taxing than I had ever imagined it would be.’

Erin says that she throws herself into work not to focus on her fertility constantly. 

‘When you’re struggling, your fertility can become the only thing that you think about’ she said. 

Erin Holland (pictured) has shared the harrowing details of her IVF journey. The media personality recently revealed the physical marks left behind by her fertility treatments – her stomach covered in bruises from fertility injections

‘So any escapism is necessary and for me that’s work.’ 

The media personality recently revealed the physical marks left behind by her fertility treatments – her stomach covered in bruises from fertility injections.  

Erin, who is married to cricketer Ben Cutting, previously told Sunday Telegraph that the process has taken a toll on her body both ‘physically and mentally’.

‘I did feel a real sense of loss and inadequacy just in my physical self and I think my confidence is something that has swayed up and down my entire life,’ she said. 

‘I am so confident some days and others not at all, and for the first time I think I’ve felt what it is like to have days that are really a struggle.’ 

Erin also revealed how she has suffered from adult acne as a result of hormones in her body after being diagnosed with polycystic ovaries.

‘Some days it is not me, it is just the hormones that you are putting in your body and the stress you are feeling. It’s a lot to process.’

Erin also spoke about her IVF journey in the past. 

‘It’s been a really challenging couple of months to be honest,’ the 35-year-old told Confidential. ‘I think this whole journey to motherhood has been so much more incredibly difficult and taxing than I had ever imagined it would be’

In a candid Instagram post, the model shared a photo of her makeup-free face and wrote a heartfelt caption explaining her situation.

‘HORMONES SUCK. Especially these IVF induced ones,’ she told her fans.

‘Between the twice daily injections, the fertility supplements, DHEA (who knew women needed a little testosterone and I have barely any?!) and being put on/off the pill to create a cycle with my PCO, I feel like a mess.’

‘The mood swings, the breakouts, the forgetful brain, the joys.’

She concluded: ‘As I start a third round of egg collection in the coming days, I just wanted to give a shout out to the underground army going through the same thing. Be kind to yourself’.

Erin also recently revealed that she feels heartbroken for her husband, cricketer Ben, who longs to be a father. 

‘If it was something that I didn’t want, I wouldn’t be so upset. And when I look at Ben, he is so ready and so desperate to be a dad so I feel a real sense of inadequacy,’ she told Stellar Magazine.

The television presenter went on to reveal that she has mourned over her failed attempts to fall pregnant so far.

‘For someone who was never really very maternal at all, I was shocked by how much it affected me and I felt a real sense of loss of it being a natural process,’ she said.

‘When someone looks me in the eyes and asks how I am going, I can find it really hard to say I am fine when I am not’.

Erin also recently revealed that she feels heartbroken for her husband, cricketer Ben Cutting (left), who longs to be a father

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