'The Little Couple' New Season: Jen And Bill Try To Start A Family

America's favorite "Little Couple," Jen and Bill Klein, continue their struggle to start a family during the fifth season of their TLC reality show, which premieres tonight.

After realizing they wouldn't be able to conceive on their own, the couple turned to a surrogate in season four, and though the embryo transfer was successful, their surrogate, Cindy, had a miscarriage that left the Kleins devastated. "Pretty much by the next day, I woke up thinking, 'I gotta try again,'" Jen said.

In the upcoming season, Jen and Bill prepare to start from square one, but they aren't sure if Cindy is as dedicated as she once was. So instead of counting on only one method, they decide to pursue adoption as well. The episode documents their first home study -- the couple must give a tour of the house and worries they haven’t baby-proofed it yet.

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Comments

[SaraJames]

09:35 PM on 04/19/2013

So did the surrogate lose the baby a second time? I haven't watched?

[danforthsusan]

03:03 PM on 02/05/2013

Bill and Jen are two wonderful, loving, caring, and unselfish people. They are educated and motivated, have a beautiful home and are settled with good careers. Let's not forget how difficult a decision it must have been to open themselves up to all of us ! We all could learn so much from them if we stopped judging them, which we have no right to do in the first place. Of course they want a family and they should have one!! If I wasn't a grandmother I would carry a baby for them! Anyone who has something negative to say about Bill and Jen having a child , should REMEMBER, THOSE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULDN'T THROW STONES !!! My thoughts are, you go for it Bill and Jen! Get that baby you so desperately want! You will be excellent parents any child would be proud of. Good luck and God Bless !!!

[Peggy Coots]

12:43 PM on 03/26/2012

They aren't using a surrogate because they were "unable to conceive on their own". They are using a surrogate because Jen's small stature would make a pregnancy very difficult and risky for her health, as well as the baby's.

[baboon5]

01:14 PM on 03/21/2012

Just because they are nice and we like them, doesn't mean we should encourage or accept the commodification of women's bodies and HUMAN bodies through surrogacy or egg donation or both.

[nela11]

02:35 AM on 04/12/2012

You are not a nice person!! A lot of people can't have kids the natural way,
YOU SHOULD NOT JUDGE ANYONE!!
Any surrogate mother should be applaud for doing this wonderful gift
to another couple who can't conceive the natural way.
So please be more sensitive before you speak your mind.

[JOANI L]

01:25 PM on 07/01/2012

There are SOOOOO many children who need homes....adoptable children. I don't think baboon5 is mean. I just think that it would be best not to bring another child into the world who almost probably would be dwarfs, Adoption is wonderful, and I hope Jen and Bill are a couple who decide on this!

[casper48626]

10:37 PM on 03/20/2012

I really enjoy watching the program about the Little Couple. I could never understand anyone being a suragate mother, but after watching the Little Couple, I could see myself in my younger years doing this for them! I would want to be a suragate for a little couple since they have major problems with pregnancy! I hope that Bill and Jen are able to have a baby through suragacy or to be able to adopt. They are such a great couple!

[WinoGirl]

07:11 PM on 03/20/2012

Good luck to them! I haven't watched the show since the first couple episodes, but they sure seem like a very nice, capable, loving couple.

[hikerbiker]

04:18 PM on 03/20/2012

Her name is Jen Arnold, not Jen Klein.