How many kids do Whitney Port and Tim Rosenman have? The Hills alum shares a heartbreaking update on their surrogacy journey

Following many miscarriages and surrogacy challenges, Whitney Port and her husband, Tim Rosenman, have been open about their challenges. The couple is hoping to grow their family and is thinking about the alternate routes to being parents. The couple already have a seven-year-old son named Sonny Sanford.

After being married in 2015, Port and Rosenman welcomed Sonny, their first child, into the world in July 2017. However, Port lost many pregnancies while attempting to conceive a second child.

She revealed her pregnancy in November 2021, however, she voiced concerns about an "unhealthy" pregnancy at seven weeks. Whitney Port disclosed that she had experienced another miscarriage in a YouTube video just two weeks later.

The couple began the "discovery phase" of their choices in early 2022 after seeing a reproductive specialist. Fertility treatments seemed like "a whole other job," Whitney Port said, admitting to feeling overburdened.

After multiple attempts and challenges, Port and Rosenman made the decision to look into other options to become parents. They found a surrogate and stored embryos to start the surrogacy procedure. Nevertheless, miscarriages were the outcome of both embryo transfers.

She revealed in the latest episode of her podcast, With Whit, on April 3,

“We found an amazing surrogate, and we ended up doing two transfers with the surrogate. Both transfers ended up miscarrying.”

Only a month before the episode was aired, a miscarriage took place. Rosenman said,

“It’s worth saying that both were after seven and a half weeks, where we were told we had a 97% chance of a successful pregnancy."

He added,

“To have that back-to-back, the odds are really crazy. So, now we’re thinking that there might be something going on, either with the surrogate or with our embryos.”

The couple are still optimistic in spite of all the setbacks. Whitney Port said,

“We’re definitely not at square one, but it feels that way each time a miscarriage happens,”

With three embryos remaining, two of which have been tested, the couple is presently deciding whether to try a different lab, do another round of egg retrieval, or move on with the remaining embryos.

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Whitney Port and Tim Rosenman's challenging journey

Following many failed efforts at natural conception, Port and Rosenman made the decision to use surrogacy. They started the procedure by storing embryos. The trip wasn't without its challenges, though; after their surrogate lost two pregnancies, the couple decided to take a pause and reconsider their options. She said in 2024:

“I took a little breather from the fertility situation”

In an interview with E! News, Whitney Port was adamant about having another child in spite of the challenges. She and Rosenman made the decision to change physicians in the middle of 2024, relocating their reproductive treatment from Los Angeles to New York, where they started seeing Dr. Catha Fisher at Spring Reproductive.

She said:

“After a bunch of tries here, with both myself and a surrogate, we're going to do another round of egg retrieval in New York.”

Whitney Port has been open about the psychological effects of infertility throughout their journey.

“Even though you didn't necessarily know this person you're grieving, who this person could have been and what your life could have been. I think that it's really important to take time to feel that grief and to not get right back into the swing of things.”

She also discussed in 2024 the financial strain, stating that they might have to pay about $200,000 for the procedure. On her With Whit podcast, she said:

“This whole thing is probably gonna end up costing us, I feel like, $200,000. Can you even believe [$15,000 is] just the charge just to find a new surrogate, let alone the surrogacy fees?”

Whitney Port acknowledged their financial advantage but also admitted that it was challenging to spend so much money on something that:

“happens to so many people so easily for free.”

Whitney Port is now concentrating on taking care of herself and painting her optimism while she continues her reproductive procedures. She offers advice to other ladies traveling similar paths in order to eliminate shame.

She said in her interview with People Magazine:

"So many women go through it and each experience is so unique and a lot of women feel like they don't really have the space to to talk about it. So, for me, filming this and sharing this felt very liberating."

Port and Rosenman are taking things slow and step by step with their wish to have another child.

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