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Natalie Portman's Dad Avner Hershlag Shopping Fertility Novel

As Natalie Portman enters the final trimester of her pregnancy, her father, a reproductive specialist, is shopping his debut novel. From micropenises to incestuous in vitro, Marlow Stern unearths the most ridiculous parts of the self-described "fertility-thriller."

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Natalie Portman and her father Avner Hershlag arrive at the 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards on January 14 in Los Angeles. (Photo: Dan Steinberg / AP Photo)

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