Khloe Kardashian had hoped it would be easy to get pregnant, but as we now know, it's been anything but for the youngest Kardashian sister. Opening up about her infertility struggles in the new issue of Cosmopolitan U.K., Khloe reveals that she'll have to take hormones if she ever wants to have a baby.

Now, it's not like any of the Kardashians are exactly shrinking violets when it comes to sharing the details of their lives (understatement of the year), but still, I commend Khloe for being so open about her battle with infertility. It's something so many women deal with, but aren't always able to talk about because it can feel shameful or like some kind of personal failure -- which of course it's not!

Here's what Khloe said about trying to get pregnant with hubby Lamar Odom, which is just so honest of her:

Uh-oh, Kim Kardashian. Looks like the reality star's little scheme to get sympathy for her supposed infertility issues might end up backfiring in the worst possible way: By delaying her divorce proceedings. Curses! Foiled again! That's right, Kris Humphries claims his ex sugar mama wife completely exagerrated her so-called struggle with infertility so audiences would be so busy throwing her a pity party they'd automatically blame the whole split on big bad Kris. And that's not all Kris is saying!

This is not your ordinary celeb pregnancy. Former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi is expecting a baby boy with her husband, Mike McCuddy. Yay! But we won't see adorable photos of Kara's baby bump. After struggling with fertility issues, the couple is having their baby through a gestational surrogate. And you better believe she's just as happy and excited about that baby as any pregnant mom.

But here's the interesting thing about a surrogate birth -- there's a third parent in the picture. "We’re praying for our surrogate, that she gets through this and that it’s as easy on her as it can possibly be, because she’s been a gem throughout the whole process," Kara says. "I've got two people on my mind: her and the baby. She's given us a precious gift."

By now the whole world has heard the news that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are expecting a little Kimye. Frankly, I wasn't surprised in the slightest. Kim has always been jonesing on babies, and sources have recently said that Kanye is up for it (har) too. But as soon as I heard, I did think about Khloe. After all, she has struggled for years with unsuccessfully trying to have a baby with husband Lamar. What must it be like for Khloe when every Kardashian around her is able to get pregnant with hardly any effort at all?

Anyone with a great nanny will tell you that they are like part of the family. They not only bond with the kids under their care, they have a close relationship with the parents too. Well, one New York City couple is accused of trying to take that nanny-family bond to a disturbing new level. 

According to the New York Post, a rich financier's wife was having trouble conceiving another child, so she offered her nanny $30,000 to donate her eggs. The nanny was so put off by the incident, she quit and the story has raised a lot of eyebrows. Some are even outraged that this woman would cross that line and ask for something so inappropriate. But I beg to differ. I don't think this woman, who is struggling with infertility, did anything wrong.

When a 37-year-old Australian woman was diagnosed with breast cancer, she never thought she'd survive her ordeal, let alone ever become a mother.

But much to her surprise, she not only beat the disease -- she also wound up getting pregnant thanks to a breakthrough treatment using her own frozen ovarian tissue.

Before she started her cancer treatments, doctors removed a strip of her ovarian tissue and froze it. And in April, her oncologists deemed her healthy enough to try and conceive, so the tissue was thawed and re-implanted in her body, which allowed her to begin ovulating again.

Not news-worthy: Monica Zapotoczny of Buenos Aires recently gave birth to twins. Somewhat news-worthy: Monica Zapotoczny, 45, of Buenos Aires, recently gave birth to twins via her eggs that she had frozen. Crazy news-worthy: Monica Zapotoczny, 45, of Buenos Aires, recently gave birth to twins via her eggs that she had frozen -- 12 years ago. That's a record!

When it comes to a woman's fertility, there are so many unknowns. You'd think with babies being born since the beginning of time (literally), we'd have more answers, but as many women who can't conceive find out, there's little we've actually figured out for sure. So every new piece of the puzzle is welcome -- like this latest finding about how a woman's fertility may be affected by her mother's age at menopause.

According to a Danish study, women whose mothers went through menopause early (before age 45) had "far fewer" eggs than women whose mothers went through menopause later. According to the BBC they looked at anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and antral follicle count (AFC) counts in more than 500 women and found that both decreased significantly over the years the earlier a woman's mother went through menopause.

Interesting, and it make sense. But don't panic if your mom did go through early menopause.