My Interview with Giuliana & Bill Rancic – “Why Other Celebrity Babies Don’t Make Us Jealous”

Last week I had the chance to have an in-depth chat with Giuliana and Bill Rancic for PR.com. Everything was on the table as the married couple who star in the Style Network’s reality show, Giuliana & Bill, discussed their marital highs and lows with me.

I asked Giuliana how it makes her feel when she has to report on celebrity baby news as she and her husband Bill have struggled to successfully conceive. I also asked the couple about their ongoing struggles to find the ideal city to settle down in, as they have always argued over whether to make Los Angeles or Chicago their main home.

In addition, Giuliana and Bill gave me some unfiltered and candid responses to questions about the JLo and Marc Anthony divorce, Charlie Sheen’s sitcom career and the Casey Anthony trial and subsequent news.

Giuliana and Bill Rancic offered some interesting answers on all front. Here are some great excerpts from our three way conversation:

PR.com (Allison Kugel): You’ve had some drama on the show but it’s not a sensational brand of drama. So many women in recent decades, more than ever, like you Giuliana, are experiencing infertility. Are both of you at peace with your decision to show so much of that struggle, including emotional doctors’ appointments, last season?

Giuliana Rancic: It was hard at the time and we had a real heart-to-heart about it, but when we signed up for this show we knew it was all or nothing. Either show this real side or don’t show anything. People actually sat me down behind closed doors and said, “I hear that you’re going to show this stuff and reveal that you’re going through IVF. You shouldn’t do this. You can just say that you don’t want to have kids.” But that just never felt right.

PR.com (Allison Kugel): I was grappling over whether to ask you this, Giuliana, but it has merit so I have to ask. You’re doing the news for E!, night after night, where you’re reporting on celebrity baby bumps, celebrity births, and everything is baby this and baby that. Do you have a hard time reporting on that? What’s going through your mind as you’re reading that news copy on camera?

Giuliana Rancic: You know what’s funny? Sometimes what goes through my mind is that I bet people at home, as I’m reading this, think that this is hard for me to read, but it’s actually not. I feel bad that they think that it’s hard. My sister gets pregnant in this season of the show, with her fourth child, and my niece asked me, “Are you jealous?” I’m really not jealous because I don’t want someone else’s baby. I want our baby. To me it’s two different things. When I walk down the street and I see moms with strollers, I’m not like, “Oh my God, I want that baby!” I want our baby and when it happens it will happen. It’s just not meant to happen yet. I believe that it’s all part of a master plan and that when it’s meant to happen it will happen for us. I find a lot of strength in knowing that, in knowing that it just isn’t our time yet. But it will be, and it’s going to be great.

PR.com (Allison Kugel): That leads me to my last headline. What’s your take on E! or other networks reporting on people like Casey Anthony and, by default, making her a media star?

Giuliana Rancic: Over my dead body she’ll become a media star. I would never pay a dollar to interview her. If E! came to me and said, “We’re going to pay Casey Anthony,” I could not go along with that, and E! would never do that anyway. Hopefully none of the news outlets will pay her a dime for her story. Because if they all say no, then she will eventually do it for free with someone because she’s going to want to tell her story to somehow persuade people to not scream at her when she walks down the street and yell, “Baby Killer.” The second someone lands an interview with Casey Anthony, the first question is going to be, “Did you pay for the interview?” And they’re going to be under so much scrutiny if they did pay her for the interview. I, certainly, as a reporter would never do that.

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