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Sara Bareilles opens up about fertility struggle

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Sara Bareilles has revealed she's been trying to have a baby with husband Joe Tippett for the past two years.

The singer and theatre star opened up about her struggle with fertility in new documentary Good Grief, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday (04Jun26).

In the documentary, the 46-year-old was seen in the studio with some of her musical collaborators when she started speaking about the difficulties she's had trying to fall pregnant.

When one of the women admitted she's been having fertility issues, Sara replied: "I'm in the same boat. We've been trying for two years."

She then struggled to hold back tears as she revealed she's tried IVF "a few times".

While she said the "next phase" is to explore the idea of using an egg donor, she admitted she's been struggling to make the appointment

Sara added: "I really had to grieve that...that it won't be mine."

She went on to admit she's been doing a lot of "meditating around the size of love", adding: "The idea that love is just big enough to hold a lot of shapes and sizes and ways things come. The idea that I could only love a child if it shows up in this one way."

 

Sara and Joe, 44, tied the knot in October 2025, with the musician announcing the happy news on her Instagram page.

Alongside pictures from the big day, she wrote: "We did a big thing. I will just say I love this man and I love the community who came to hold us up. I am feeling so lucky and so grateful."

The pair first met while working together on the musical Waitress back in 2015, and announced their engagement on New Year's Day in 2023.

The release of Sara's documentary coincides with the announcement of her new album, also titled Good Grief.

The record is due to be released on 28th August.

In a press release, Sara said of the album: "This whole collection of songs felt like transmissions rather than a deliberate attempt to make sense of the world.

"My deepest hope is that Good Grief provides some kind of comfort or catharsis."


 

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