Sherri Shepherd talks having second child via surrogate (VIDEO)

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Emmy Award winner and cohost of The View Sherri Shepherd challenges readers to adopt healthier lifestyles in her new book Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes.

This week the 46-year-old actress/comedienne became a real life hot topic when she told the Tom Joyner Morning Show that she and her husband Lamar Sally have found a surrogate to carry their child.

During part 1 of her interview with theGrio’s Chris Witherspoon, Shepherd, who has her hands full raising her 8-year-old son Jeffrey, opened up about why she and her husband decided to find a surrogate to carry her second child.

“We did fertility with Jeffrey, my first husband and I, and we did in vitro,” Shepherd said. “And Jeffrey came, it was twins and I lost his little sister and it was really really hard on my body…”

“I don’t want to go through that again…also my age. I may look thirty-five, but my mind is going heffa you better be real…It’s harder. I’m not Britney Spears, you bounce back a lot slower. Momma gotta put her child through college.”

Shepherd jokingly confessed that she cried so hard in 2012 when she was eliminated from ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, because the money she was earning on the show was her “fertility money.”

“We could use a surrogate, because I did Dancing With the Stars, I got a little bit of money,” she said. “That’s why I cried so hard when they voted me off. I was like ‘this is my fertility money. Why y’all voting me off? I’m trying to have a baby with this money.’”

In Part 2 of her interview with theGrio, Shepherd talks about her new book “Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes,” and addresses health concerns for black women who are battling obesity.  

Follow Chris Witherspoon on Twitter at @WitherspoonC