A pregnant woman approaching 40 claims strangers tell her she is "too old" to have a baby – but says she looks and feels better than she did in her twenties.
Adriana Krzesniak, 39, was delighted to fall pregnant after 15 years trying to conceive.
She went through four rounds of IVF with her husband, Kamel, 40, a film maker. before falling pregnant naturally after they had given up hope.
A young-looking Adriana keeps healthy by eating turmeric on most of her meals as well as applying SPF 50 every day.
The soon-to-be first time mum says she ignores comments from trolls on social media claiming she is "too old" to have a baby and says she doesn’t feel her age.
Adriana, a visual merchandiser, living in Stuttgart, Germany, said: “People say I’m too old.
“It doesn’t bother me.
“I look better, I look younger now.
“40 - I don’t think it’s old age if you care for yourself.
“You have more patience and you don‘t feel that you missing something in life. You’re more content to stay at home with your child.”
Adriana first start trying for a baby in her twenties but struggled to conceive.
Seven years ago she divorced her ex and moved to Warsaw, Poland, and then on to Stuttgart, Germany, to start her career as a visual merchandiser.
Adriana said: “The move transformed my style and social media helped me to curate my own style.
"When I was younger I always wanted to look older, I would wear high heels and dresses to look more feminine.
"Now I have my own original style. I love the 2000s aesthetic and oversized clothing - people often stop me in the street to compliment how I dress."
Adriana met her husband, Kamel, in February 2016 and the pair started trying for a baby six months into their relationship - but after no success, Adriana was diagnosed with endometriosis.
They went through four rounds of IVF before looking into adoption following two miscarriages.
Adriana said: “We’d looked into adoption.
“I was waiting for my period and it didn’t come.
“I went and did a pregnancy test and it came back positive.
“It was a natural pregnancy.”
The pair were “shocked” but “happy” to fall pregnant in April 2023 and now, at 34 weeks, pregnant Adriana can’t wait to finally become a mum.
Adriana said: “My age doesn’t matter.
“Many people think I’m 20-something.
“Even my gynaecologist thought I was under 35.
“I don’t feel 40.
“People say when I’ll be 60, my child will be 20 and I’ll be in the menopause.
“It doesn’t matter – as long as you care for yourself.”
Adriana says she stays young with a healthy balanced diet - eating lots of superfoods including turmeric, black cumin oil, millet and nutritional yeast.
She only eats meat two to three times a week and won't touch processed kinds.
Adriana has 1ml of hyaluronic acid in her smile lines every two years and 0.5ml in her lips each year - but says she hasn't had Botox.
She said: “In my mind I’ll look great at 65 – no one will be able to tell.
“When I gave up hope it happened - I fell pregnant.
"I don’t feel the pressure that you need to peruse professional career or that you are missing on going out with friends because it’s something that you already had.
"Now it feels that all you want to do is focus on family and your child. You feel more stable in your life."
Adriana Krzesniak, 39, was delighted to fall pregnant after 15 years trying to conceive.
She went through four rounds of IVF with her husband, Kamel, 40, a film maker. before falling pregnant naturally after they had given up hope.
A young-looking Adriana keeps healthy by eating turmeric on most of her meals as well as applying SPF 50 every day.
The soon-to-be first time mum says she ignores comments from trolls on social media claiming she is "too old" to have a baby and says she doesn’t feel her age.
Adriana, a visual merchandiser, living in Stuttgart, Germany, said: “People say I’m too old.
“It doesn’t bother me.
“I look better, I look younger now.
“40 - I don’t think it’s old age if you care for yourself.
“You have more patience and you don‘t feel that you missing something in life. You’re more content to stay at home with your child.”
Adriana first start trying for a baby in her twenties but struggled to conceive.
Seven years ago she divorced her ex and moved to Warsaw, Poland, and then on to Stuttgart, Germany, to start her career as a visual merchandiser.
Adriana said: “The move transformed my style and social media helped me to curate my own style.
"When I was younger I always wanted to look older, I would wear high heels and dresses to look more feminine.
"Now I have my own original style. I love the 2000s aesthetic and oversized clothing - people often stop me in the street to compliment how I dress."
Adriana met her husband, Kamel, in February 2016 and the pair started trying for a baby six months into their relationship - but after no success, Adriana was diagnosed with endometriosis.
They went through four rounds of IVF before looking into adoption following two miscarriages.
Adriana said: “We’d looked into adoption.
“I was waiting for my period and it didn’t come.
“I went and did a pregnancy test and it came back positive.
“It was a natural pregnancy.”
The pair were “shocked” but “happy” to fall pregnant in April 2023 and now, at 34 weeks, pregnant Adriana can’t wait to finally become a mum.
Adriana said: “My age doesn’t matter.
“Many people think I’m 20-something.
“Even my gynaecologist thought I was under 35.
“I don’t feel 40.
“People say when I’ll be 60, my child will be 20 and I’ll be in the menopause.
“It doesn’t matter – as long as you care for yourself.”
Adriana says she stays young with a healthy balanced diet - eating lots of superfoods including turmeric, black cumin oil, millet and nutritional yeast.
She only eats meat two to three times a week and won't touch processed kinds.
Adriana has 1ml of hyaluronic acid in her smile lines every two years and 0.5ml in her lips each year - but says she hasn't had Botox.
She said: “In my mind I’ll look great at 65 – no one will be able to tell.
“When I gave up hope it happened - I fell pregnant.
"I don’t feel the pressure that you need to peruse professional career or that you are missing on going out with friends because it’s something that you already had.
"Now it feels that all you want to do is focus on family and your child. You feel more stable in your life."
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00:00 I'm talking about my personal stuff here on TikTok like all the time so it's totally fine. I already
00:05 made videos about my struggle with getting pregnant but here's the story. First I got
00:11 married when I was 23. I started to try for a child with my first husband when I was 25.
00:18 For two years nothing happened so I went to the doctors and they even didn't put me in the right
00:25 diagnosis in Poland so they only noticed that I don't really have ovulation. They gave me injections
00:32 for ovulation and we were like visiting different doctors. Nothing really helped so we started to
00:39 try for adoption in Poland when I was 30 but then my marriage ended. When I was 32 I met my
00:47 second husband and I thought from the beginning that I have those problems so he knew that maybe
00:52 we will need to adopt. We started very fast to try to get pregnant but nothing happened so I went to
01:00 the doctors in Germany. Here finally they put the right diagnosis for me. It was endometriosis. I got
01:06 operation and I have a heavy endometriosis really like a lot and that was also a reason why I didn't
01:13 have ovulation because my endometriosis was on my ovaries and it was blocking something so after
01:20 having lactroscopy I actually got pregnant once naturally but then I was discouraged when I was
01:27 four months pregnant and then we decided to go with IVF in vitro. We did four rounds of in vitro
01:35 and also during in vitro it occurred that my eggs are poor quality. So the embryos were very poor
01:42 quality. We tried four times. One time was successful but I also was discouraged. When it
01:47 occurred that my eggs are poor quality I started to take supplements for equality so vitamin D and
01:53 coenzyme cutane. If you use SPF daily and you don't suntan like me, I never suntan. I always use
02:01 self-tanners and SPF 50 on my face and generally I hate suntan and when you use SPF your body
02:10 don't produce vitamin D naturally like it's blocking also vitamin production so you should
02:16 take supplements. I never knew about it. I actually always took some supplements like for hair skin
02:22 and there was some vitamin D but it was definitely not enough. Then when we decided to go for
02:28 adoption again that we don't want to do IVF anymore I got pregnant naturally. I'm happily
02:35 seven months pregnant right now but it was a real struggle. It was not easy and I was trying for a
02:41 long time. I was trying like 15 years to get pregnant so yeah that's the story.
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