Many women know Cindy Margolis as an actress and model. Women who have faced infertility issues usually know that she went to extraordinary lengths to have her children.

In Margolis’ book, Having a Baby…when the Old-Fashioned Way Isn’t Working: Hope and Help for Everyone Facing Infertility, she writes very candidly about her journey to build a family. Beliefnet.com carried an interview with her recently. You can read the interview in its entirety by clicking here.

Here is an portion of the interview we thought would interest the readers of the I Am More Than My Infertility blog:

Q. You conceived your son after several grueling rounds of IVF, and then you had your daughters through a surrogate. Do you think there’s any one right way to cope with infertility?

A. I don’t, and that’s the best part about it. It’s what’s right for you. There are so many options available to you, everything from insemination all the way to in vitro fertilization. There is surrogacy, and that’s another thing that people don’t really understand. People saw a Lifetime movie one time where the surrogate ran away with the baby, and everybody freaks out. And that cannot be further from the truth. With my surrogate it was a wonderful, amazing experience. Most surrogate stories are just so heartwarming. Could you imagine any more precious gift than giving someone the gift of life? A virtual stranger, who, in their heart, is a true angel and all they want to do is to help other families who couldn’t conceive on their own. I tell Shannon, my surrogate, “You can go rob a bank or kill someone, it doesn’t even matter, you’re getting into heaven because you were an angel to carry those two precious, beautiful girls for us.”

Linda