“Just take it, and then if you get pregnant, stop.” Nine words from her fertility doctor — and Whitney Way Thore says that blunt instruction is exactly why she started weight-loss medication. In a new exclusive interview with E! News, published November 6, the 42-year-old My Big Fat Fabulous Life star laid out the medical reasoning behind a decision fans have been debating since the Season 14 trailer confirmed she was on the medication. “And so that’s why I started it,” she said.
“Physically It Was Easy” — What the Doctor Actually Told Her
According to Whitney, her doctor explained that the medication could help her ovulation and reproductive hormones — a meaningful consideration for someone living with PCOS who has been open about wanting a baby. “I still want a baby, that’s my main objective,” she said in the Season 14 trailer, and the new interview fills in the medical logic behind that line.
She was also quick to say the experience itself was gentle. “I didn’t really have any side effects or anything like that,” she told E! News. “I think physically it was easy.” Notably, Whitney did not name the medication — she referred to it only as weight-loss medication — and she has not confirmed a specific brand, though fans online have speculated. Season 14 premieres Tuesday, November 10, at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
A Donor Found, a Plan Set: Three Letters, IUI
The medication is only one piece of the plan. Whitney told E! News she has already found a sperm donor and intends to try to get pregnant through IUI — intrauterine insemination, a fertility treatment in which sperm is placed directly into the uterus. It is a concrete, clinical next step, and it reframes the conversation: this is no longer a vague someday dream, it is a plan with a donor chosen and a procedure named.
That specificity is what makes the interview land differently from the trailer teases. The trailer showed the medication. The interview shows the roadmap.
The Man Who Ghosted Her in 2018 — and Never Wavered Since
Then there is Jake. Whitney and fiancé Jake Beaudoin first met in 2018 — and he ghosted her after a few dates. Telling him about her baby plan years later, when he was her boyfriend, was the moment she braced for. Instead, she said, he was supportive and excited from the start — and he has “never wavered on that once and still hasn’t.”
YOU MAY LIKE“Grow Up and Realize What Your Options Are”: Whitney Thore’s Ex Lennie Just Said What No One Dares to SayThe line lands harder because of Whitney’s own history. She admitted she has struggled to trust after a string of disappointing relationships: “I’ve almost never dated a man that I leave the relationship having any shred of respect for.” Against that backdrop, the man who once vanished is now the steadiest part of the plan — and the relationship moved quickly once she told him what she wanted.
Hope on One Side, Hurry on the Other
Fans, as ever, are split. On one side is the hope story: a doctor with a clear plan, a fiancé who never wavered, and a woman who has been honest about every step. On the other side are the questions — about how fast all of this is moving, and about the donor-sperm conversation still being teased in the Season 14 trailer. Neither side is going quiet before Tuesday night.
So here is the question the interview really leaves hanging: Jake Beaudoin ghosted Whitney in 2018, and now she says he has “never wavered” — not once. Do you believe the turnaround, or does a nine-word prescription — take it, stop if you’re pregnant — feel too casual for a baby journey this big? Tell us which part of her story convinces you more — the doctor’s confidence, or Jake’s.
