Though she makes being a television and cultural icon look almost painfully easy, make no mistake: Betty White got to where she is through decades of hard work. Sure, during that time she also led an active personal life, which included two brief marriages and one lengthy one. However, when it came to her career, she was laser-focused, and that meant that there was no room for children.
As she told CBS Sunday Morning in 2012, she knew that if she'd ever had children, she would have been so focused on being their mother that it would have either been kids or her career. "I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus," she said. She added that she never regretted not having had children of her own.
That's not to say that she didn't like kids. She inherited stepchildren from her third marriage to Allen Ludden, and as Distractify notes, her friend Sandra Bullock recalled that White had once told her that she (White) was "blessed" to have had those stepchildren.
