Samantha Busch talks IVF and raising NASCAR's next star with Kyle Busch

Brexton Busch, son of NASCAR champion Kyle Busch, races 150 times a year and aims to follow in his father’s footsteps.
After struggling with infertility, Kyle and Samantha Busch used IVF and later started the Bundle of Joy Fund to help other couples.
The Bundle of Joy Fund has contributed over $2 million, resulting in 108 births for couples in need.
Despite a recent winless streak, Kyle Busch uses his experiences to coach his son on perseverance in racing.

Brexton Busch, the 10-year-old son of two-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kyle Busch and his wife Samantha Busch, races 150 times a year at tracks across the country.

Amid Kyle Busch’s 38-stop National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing season, the youngster, who aspires to follow in his father’s footsteps on the asphalt, keeps his parents busy.

Brexton Busch’s goal is to eventually hold a NASCAR seat like his father.

Asked if he wanted to pursue other areas of racing, he responded, “Absolutely not, I want to do NASCAR just like my dad,” Samantha Busch said.

Kyle Busch will be at the Nov. 2 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at the Phoenix Raceway in Arizona. Busch isn’t in contention for the title. His former racing team Joe Gibbs Racing has a chance to take the crown for the first time since Busch won in 2019.

Although Kyle Busch hasn’t seen a victory since 2023, Samantha Busch said her husband and son are training hard, excited about the future and the family is more united than ever.

Why the Busch family embraced in vitro fertilization, podcast

Infertility left Samantha Busch devastated, isolated and depressed in 2013, she said.

“There was a night, and we were laying in bed together, and I’m just kind of like why ‘God, why me? Why is it so hard?’” Busch told the Tennessean. “Why is everybody around us getting pregnant and we can’t?”

At a loss, but rooted in faith, the couple turned to in vitro fertilization (IVF). In 2014, they were thrilled to learn the lab-focused method of conception worked.

Samantha Busch said her focus immediately shifted to helping others on their journey. She said, although they are grateful for their financial status, others may not be so lucky.

“Understanding that bill, I mean it’s around $20,000 and there’s no guarantee for a baby, that’s just for a chance,” Samantha Busch said.

“We just knew that God placed it on our heart that we needed to start the Bundle of Joy Fund,” she added.

Beginning after Brexton’s birth, the couple launched The Samantha and Kyle Busch Bundle of Joy Fund aimed at advocating and presenting “monetary grants to in-need couples struggling with infertility,” according to the website.

Since the initiative was started 10 years ago, Samantha and Kyle have contributed more than $2 million dollars directly to couples resulting in 108 births, Samantha said.

Samantha Busch said she is glad conversations about IVF have gone mainstream in recent years.

“It was a conversation that you used to kind of whisper about or you didn’t tell many people about it,” she said. “Now, it’s just so amazing to see so many courageous couples out there sharing their stories.”

She works to add to the trend of making IVF commonplace through her podcast called, “Certified Oversharer,” which covers everything from fertility and IVF to relationships and her life as a mother.

“There’s zero judgement and a whole lot of realness,” the podcast synopsis states.

Kyle Busch coaches Brexton, ‘Keep trying to be your best self during hard times’

Throughout Kyle Busch’s career, he pocketed a combined 232 wins across NASCAR’s top three series, Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Truck Series. But the 20-year NASCAR veteran has fallen on hard times, going winless since he won at the World Wide Technology Raceway in St. Louis in June 2023.

“It’s definitely been hard, you know, he was very fortunate to have a very huge career with lots of success, and when that takes a little dip down it’s difficult,” Samantha Busch said.

When asked about how the support is shown from behind the scenes, Samantha Busch said their family acts as his backbone.

Despite Kyle Busch’s spell of losses, Samantha said Brexton is benefiting from the troubles, by learning from his dad’s advice.

“He’s been able to watch his dad at the high of highs and the low of lows,” Samantha Busch said. “Kyle is able to coach him [by saying], ‘Look you’re going to lose more races than you’re going to win, that’s just inevitable in the sport. But like here’s how you can keep trying to be your best self during hard times.’”

Kyle Busch is constantly working, she added, to show Brexton that racing is “not always going to be rainbows and puppies, but during the hard times you dig deeper” and keep working to “get that checkered flag.”

Brexton is a Legend Car driver, the tier that’s the seventh level below NASCAR’s topflight.

“We always give him a choice of like ‘Do you want to go racing or do you want to go to a friend’s birthday?’ for example, and he’s like ‘Mom I’m going racing,’” Samantha Busch said.

Between Kyle and Brexton, the two race nearly 190 times a year and the family is sometimes forced to divide and conquer, she said. But to limit the distance between races, they prioritize Brexton’s events along the NASCAR circuit.

“We’re not home a lot, but as long as we’re together, we are home no matter where we are,” Samantha Busch said.

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