On February 24, SBS's new talk/variety program 'Circle House' premiered, featuring MCs Lee Seung Gi, Han Ga In, and Noh Hong Chul.
Each week, 'Circle House' will deal with various topics related to dating and relationships in today's society. On this week's episode, one guest shared that she was against dating or being in relationships.
During the segment, actress Han Ga In was asked how she would feel if her daughter grew up and decided that she would be against dating. Han Ga In replied, "Whether it's against-dating, or against-marriage, I'm all for it. It's all up to her."
She then opened up about her own experience of struggling with "infertility" rumors, after getting married at the age of 24. She said, "I met my husband when I was 22, and got married at 24. I felt like I was still so young, I wasn't even done growing up yet, so I did not have the confidence or the desire to have a child and raise him/her. So my husband and I agreed that we would wait to have kids, and that's why we did not have any kids for 11 years."
Han Ga In, who married her former drama co-star Yeon Jung Hoon in 2005, revealed, "Soon after I got married, I would go out in public and people would always ask me, 'When are you having kids?'. When we didn't have any kids, rumors started going around that our marriage was falling apart, or that I was 'infertile'. I never even tried having children in the first place, but all of a sudden, the key search word that popped up next to my name was 'infertile'. Just because I got married, that doesn't mean that the next step of my life is pregnancy. Those rumors gave me great stress."
Han Ga In then went on to give birth to her daughter in 2016 at the age of 35, and also gave birth to her second child, a son, in 2019.
Han Ga In also shared about her relationship with her father on this day, and how her past led her to marry actor Yeon Jung Hoon. When a guest stated that she had "no affection" for her father, Han Ga In agreed, "I can relate. I did not have a good childhood growing up. I do not hate my father. I had no expectations of him, from him, whatsoever in my childhood, so I cannot even harbor hate toward him. I have no feelings about him at all."
She continued, "Because I grew up in that kind of household, I was so happy when I visited my husband's home. It was a warm family, the kind of families you see on TV. The stew was boiling, and everyone in the family ate at the dining table together and asked one another how their day was. One of the reasons I got married at a young age was because I wanted to be a part of that family... When I see my husband taking care of our children, it heals me. Sometimes, it brings me to tears. He is showing me the image of a father that I dreamed of for our kids."
This is beautifully said I relate so much coming from a broken family 😪🥰🥰🥰🥰
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