Both women remember feeling an immediate bond. "Enter Bolig, a 41-year-old Cincinnati woman with three children of her own. You need to think about the following questions: What happens if you have triplets? Joan Lunden has been married two times in her career. For the last month they’ve been practicing late-night feeding shifts in their six-bedroom modern house.
We’re going to get this done.”Since then the couples have been in constant contact.
I am so proud of my older twins, Kate and Max, both 12 at the time, who sat down with their older sister, and ALIVE Producer, Sarah, to talk about coping with their mommy having cancer. But she insists that none of the eggs came from her family.Lunden, now 52, and Konigsberg, 10 years her junior, married three years ago and tried everything they could to have biological children on their own. And I think that if insurance will cover Viagra for men, it should also be covering these kinds of methods to try to build families.Everybody there, all of the reporters from ‘Newsweek’ and ‘TIME,’ they only wanted to talk to me about bringing the baby to work because it was something new.We talk to them a lot. Do you still hold the record for longest serving woman in morning television?LUNDEN: This is different from other nutrition books because of the fact that it shows the link between the foods that we eat, our children and their increased risk for coronary artery disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, hypertension and osteoporosis.Eight hands are on Deborah Bolig’s bulging stomach, searching for signs of two kicking 5-month-old fetuses. She did in vitro and had twins. For men and women battling fertility problems, the bigger headline is that Lunden and Konigsberg, 42, are enjoying such a happy, stress-free experience with surrogacy, a word that often conjures up images of heart-wrenching custody battles. As for the manner is which her household grew: “You usually only hear about surrogacy when there’s a horror story (over custody). “Once I got over ‘Oh my God, it really is Joan Lunden,’ I forgot they were a high-profile couple,” says Bolig. As of 2014, Lunden is a special correspondent for NBC's Today. There are a number of people, through these surrogate agencies who want to be there for the couple that has the child. By then Lunden, recovered from the 1992 collapse of her 13-year marriage to TV producer Michael Krauss and still months from her bruising ouster by GMA execs, was ready again for love. But meanwhile, they’re at the water cooler talking about the interview I did with somebody on a parenting issue or how to deal with their finances at home.For many fans, who cheered the blonde dynamo on through three pregnancies during her 17 years cohosting GMA and sighed contentedly when, eight years after a bitter divorce, she wed Konigsberg, the big surprise is that Lunden has chosen at 52 to build on her brood of three grown daughters. They are worn out. So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. So already, to my 16-year-old daughter, this standard is old hat to her.”We tried in vitro fertilization many times, but it wasn’t working.