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Warning: This post mentions infertility and pregnancy loss.

Having kids is a life-changing decision for any couple, which is why it's so important for both people to be on the same page. However, even when they agree on family planning, infertility issues and pregnancy loss are devastating experiences that can tear couples apart.

Here are 15 celebrity couples who broke up over not wanting or not being able to have kids:

In 2014, Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello met at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. They were married from 2015 to 2024. She already had a son from her previous marriage. She told the Spanish newspaper El País, "My marriage broke up because my husband was younger. He wanted to have kids, and I didn't want to be an old mom. I feel it's not fair to the baby. I respect whoever does it, but that's not for me anymore. I had a son at 19, who is now 32, and I'm ready to be a grandmother, not a mother. I'm almost in menopause; it's the natural way of things."

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She continued, "When my son becomes a dad, let him bring the baby to me for a while, and then I'll give it back to him and go on with my life. That's what I have to do."

She also told People, "There's things in life that might sound like good ideas, but they're not. I was a mother already. I know what it means to be a good mother or to try to be the best mother that you can, and that takes a lot of sacrifices, takes a lot of energy.

Nowadays, thanks to science, women can actually have babies older. Before, nature for some reason tells your body at 50 you are in menopause, it's time for you to be done with that. There is a reason why nature is doing that. But that's for me, and I totally respect where anyone wants to be a mom after 50. I didn't think because of my career, the way I live my life, the way my marriage was, that it was fair to bring a kid to this world, and I'm not going to be able to give 100 percent."

In both interviews, she reiterated that she'd want her future partner to already have kids of his own.

However, Joe said that what Sofía told El País was "simply not true." He told Men's Journal, "There's been a lot said in the press about me wanting a family. ... We did try to have a family for the first year and a half. And we had a huge conversation right out of the gate during the first month we dated. I said, 'If you're done with kids, then I understand. Just tell me, and I'll know what this is, and that's okay.' But that wasn't the case with her. And I swore to her that I would never leave if it didn't work out. And I didn't."

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He also said that he wanted kids, adding, "[That] wasn't inevitably why everything ended. It's because two people grew apart, and sometimes that happens. ... To be painted as if I had some sort of midlife crisis, and after nine years, turned to somebody and gave them an ultimatum of, 'Do this potentially unhealthy thing to your body, or else I'm gone?' That's never who I was."

Joe's fiancé, Caitlin O'Conner, told People, "I think Joe would be a great dad. He has big dad energy. It's always been the first conversation I have on the first date. Do you wanna start a family? What does your future look like? We definitely talked about that during our first date. So, you know, in the future. I have always discussed having children at the beginning of any relationship or dating situation, and so has Joe."

Michelle Yeoh and business magnate Sir Dickson Poon were married from 1988 to 1992. Her infertility issues contributed to the "heartbreaking" breakdown of the marriage. She told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, "I think the worst moment to go through is every month you feel like such a failure. It wasn't for lack of trying, because I have always, and still do, [love] babies. I believe that it's a woman's choice. It's your choice whether you want to have children, and it shouldn't be imposed on you… but I always wanted to have children."

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She said, "When I was married the first time, that was very clear in our path, that this was a marriage about having children, next generation, and all that... You also have to understand, these are conversations that you really have to have with yourself and be able to look ahead and think, 'Yes, we love each other very much now, but in 10 years or 20 years, I still can't give him the family that he craves for.' And you have to be fair sometimes; that's why these dialogues between a couple is so important. If one wants [something] and the other doesn't, this is something you have to face right at the beginning, because along the way, there will be a lot of hurt… so I think it was very brave on our path to admit, to say, 'Okay, let's not drag this out.'"

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Celeb Who Broke Up Over Infertility Or Being Child-Free