'I opened up the email and I go, 'Okay, umm, are you suggesting something?,'' Michael said of his response. 'Then I started taking pictures of the book and sending them to him.'

'I started telling him about it, bits and pieces, here and there,' Michelle said.

Then, a girlfriend of Michelle's recommended the '50 Shades' series. 'Then Christian Grey entered my life.'Ī third couple, Michelle and Michael Burdick of Brockton, Mass., suffered a miscarriage and various health problems that made it difficult to add to their family of four. 'I'm blessed that I have two healthy kids but I wanted that one more and I was sad,' Danielle said. 'She just put down the book and she was all over me,' he told 'GMA.' 'It was nice and enjoyable.'įor Scott and Danielle Olszewski of New York City, getting pregnant with a third child was proving difficult after they'd had their first two kids with relative ease. I don't care if you're tired…it's time to go to work,'' Carly said.Īfter Carly began reading '50 Shades,' Leroy says he noticed a change in his wife. 'I think the fun was taken out of it at that point in time because you're like, 'Okay, here it is. While the '50 Shades' baby boom theory will only be proven months - nine, to be exact - from now, 'GMA' spoke with a trio of couples to see if a book really could start a new population burst.Ĭarly and Leroy Gibson of Spokane, Wash., said 14 months spent trying to have another baby had taken the sexy out of sex. 'Reading '50 Shades of Grey' is acting like an aphrodisiac for women,' Linda Murray, Global Editor in Chief of Bab圜, told ' Good Morning America.' 'It's putting them in the mood more frequently and they're having more sex and they're ultimately getting pregnant faster.' Now the revolution is coming to the delivery room, where a baby boom sparked by the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' phenomenon is predicted. 'It was kind of erotic and sensual and loving and compassionate all at the same time, which kind of got my insides going, I guess,' one user wrote.

The revolution has been whispered about among friends and spilled out online on discussion boards like those of the popular pregnancy and parenting website Bab圜. Elsewhere, they are said to have sparked a ' mommy porn' revolution. The books' contents - the relationship between protagonists Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele and their very explicitly detailed sadomasochistic sexual encounters - are so naughty they make grown men and women blush - at least in public. The erotic trilogy ' Fifty Shades of Grey,' 'Fifty Shades Darker,' and 'Fifty Shades Freed,' by British author E L James has sold 20 million copies in the last four months alone. It has made millions of readers swoon and gotten A-list actors to throw their names into the ring, hoping to star in the big screen adaptation. It's one of the hottest and best-selling book series of all time. ABC News' Felicia Patinkin and Amy Robach report:

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