A few months after her son's McCoy's birth in May 2015, she revealed that she had been diagnosed with Huntington's disease - a neurological condition in which the cells in the brain break down over time - before getting pregnant. She underwent the resulting genetic test, which came back positive, after her mother diagnosed with that genetic disease. As soon as she got her diagnosis, she decided to have a child to have a kid right away to have as much time with the kids as possibly she can before Huntington's starts to take effect. To prevent her kids from the disease, she decided to get pregnant through IVF.