Sophia Bush Gets Candid About Her 'Hard and Painful' Fertility Journey: 'Most Clarifying Experience'

"It feels like society is finally making space for brutally honest conversations," Bush says

Sophia Bush is opening up about her fertility journey.

In Glamour's April cover story, the actress, 41, gets honest about her experience with fertility in a personal essay for the magazine. She explains in the article that after her wedding to ex-husband Grant Hughes, she was in "the depths and heartbreak of the fertility process," which Bush calls the "most clarifying experience of my life."

"It feels like society is finally making space for brutally honest conversations about how hard and painful any fertility journey is, but I kept mine private," she says.

"I was trying to get through months of endless ultrasounds, hormone shots, so many blood draws that I have scar tissue in my veins, and retrieval after retrieval, while simultaneously realizing the person I had chosen to be my partner didn't necessarily speak the same emotional language I did."

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Bush separated from Hughes after 13 months of marriage last August. A few months later, the actress was seen stepping out with soccer star Ashlyn Harris, who split from her wife and fellow soccer pro, Ali Krieger.

After they were first seen together in October, an insider from Bush and Harris' circle confirmed to PEOPLE that the two were together after splitting from their respective partners.

"After being friends for years, and running in the same social circles, Sophia and Ashlyn went out on their first dinner date a couple of weeks ago. This is so recent, and they are both beginning new chapters," the source said at the time.

In early January, Bush reflected on her year that “changed everything" in a lengthy Instagram post.

“No more playing small. No more turning my back on myself. No more settling for what falls short because ‘who am I to ask for more?’ This year put me back in my body. I left it a long time ago, in such a way that I forgot what it felt like to inhabit my own skin. I feel my whole self from the tops of my ears to the tips of my toes now. It’s breathtaking. Life giving. Affirming," said Bush.

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