It’s been just over a year of marriage for Mel Greig and her husband Steve Pollock, but the pair have announced today they are parting ways to allow Pollock to “rediscover himself as an individual”.
The TV and radio personality appeared on Studio 10 to break the news of her separation this morning, telling the panellists she has been coming to terms with her fractured marriage for months.
“I am separated from my husband now,” she said, adding: “there’s been a couple of months that I’ve been dealing with it in private.”
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Greig and her husband have been living apart since she moved to Wollongong at the beginning of the year to work on the Wave FM breakfast radio show. The split comes after the 33-year-old announced her ongoing battle with endometriosis – which means she may be unable to conceive children naturally – in September last year.
Having suffered with the condition since she was 17-years-old, Greig was told by doctors that she would need a hysterectomy. She has spoken publicly in the past about an unsuccessful round of IVF treatments and has said she would probably need to use a surrogate to have children. Her fertility battles have undoubtedly weighed Greig down, telling the studio she finds it hard to field questions asking when she will start a family.
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My heart goes out to them both. My relationship with my former partner was a casualty in failed IVF treatment. Despite the most caring of medical professionals and so much support, there's nothing that can prepare you for the soul crushing moment of getting a negative pregnancy test result.. repeatedly.
I take my hat off to couples that can pull through the failure as a team (which hopefully leads to a healthy baby), but sadly some couples implode under the physical and emotional toll it takes.
Really sad. Unless your goals and values are on very different pages, I believe a couple doesn't need to split up to maintain or re-discover themselves as an individual. My partner and I ensure we are right and looked after as ourselves first, then as a couple.
We've been through IVF, so I know how the focus on fertility can be constant and an enormous weight to bear. Hard to let it go from your mind, and the risk of it dominating every day, week and month. It is not the end of the road for motherhood. At only 33, Mel may go down that path on her own now; it is possible, and she can do it. When a baby arrives, the awareness of how it was created and was gestated will begin to fade and be less significant as the months and years pass, and they are family. I hope she has the support around her. I hope she can recover, heal and move on when ready in private, with dignity and respect from the media and public.