I thought, 'When I get pregnant, someone will be looking for a pregnant woman. I'll do a movie about a pregnant woman.' But that didn't happen.
I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
Women right now kind of have this idea of success - putting your career first and then having kids. On one side, it's perfect and it's a great plan, but on the other side, they don't explain to you that after age 35, you start losing eggs.
In my family, people become pregnant at 33 or something, not 26.
It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario.
I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.
I don't know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn't think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.
I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.
Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.
