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The failed attempts by Connie Chung and Maury Povich to have their own child were well chronicled in the tabloids ? but the couple's heartache was even worse than audiences might have originally imagined. The veteran news anchor and her talk-show-host hubby actually suffered through several miscarriages during the early 1990s, according to an upcoming Lifetime Intimate Portrait. "I was determined and doggedly pursuing this goal," recalls Chung. The ABC newswoman says she never wanted to go public with her pregnancy attempts but found herself thrust into the spotlight when People magazine ? against her wishes ? wrote a cover story on the couple's baby plans. Eventually, Povich helped convince the headstrong Chung to consider adoption. "Gosh, I wish we had done it earlier," Povich says of their 1995 adoption of son Matthew. "She deserved a child the moment she wanted a child." The revealing TV bio also features an uncomfortable excha
The failed attempts by Connie Chung and Maury Povich to have their own child were well chronicled in the tabloids ? but the couple's heartache was even worse than audiences might have originally imagined.
The veteran news anchor and her talk-show-host hubby actually suffered through several miscarriages during the early 1990s, according to an upcoming Lifetime Intimate Portrait. "I was determined and doggedly pursuing this goal," recalls Chung.
The ABC newswoman says she never wanted to go public with her pregnancy attempts but found herself thrust into the spotlight when People magazine ? against her wishes ? wrote a cover story on the couple's baby plans.
Eventually, Povich helped convince the headstrong Chung to consider adoption. "Gosh, I wish we had done it earlier," Povich says of their 1995 adoption of son Matthew. "She deserved a child the moment she wanted a child."
The revealing TV bio also features an uncomfortable exchange in which the couple recall how difficult it was to maintain a relationship when she was living in Los Angeles and he was living in Philadelphia. "You were fooling around a lot and getting drunk," Chung tells Povich. "You couldn't remember the last names or the first names of the women you were with." Ouch!