Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is freezing her eggs and sharing every part of the process with her 6 million+ followers; the hormone injections, the bloating, the uncertainty, and it's got Soph and Emma asking what egg freezing actually costs. In this episode, we cover the real price of freezing your eggs (upfront costs plus the ongoing storage fees nobody mentions), why only 6% of women who freeze their eggs ever go on to use them, why 35-37 (not your 20s) is when most women can actually afford to do it, the booming $129 billion surrogacy industry sparked by the backlash to Cameron Diaz's third child, and why so many fertility...
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is freezing her eggs and sharing every part of the process with her 6 million+ followers; the hormone injections, the bloating, the uncertainty, and it's got Soph and Emma asking what egg freezing actually costs. In this episode, we cover the real price of freezing your eggs (upfront costs plus the ongoing storage fees nobody mentions), why only 6% of women who freeze their eggs ever go on to use them, why 35-37 (not your 20s) is when most women can actually afford to do it, the booming $129 billion surrogacy industry sparked by the backlash to Cameron Diaz's third child, and why so many fertility decisions; whether to freeze eggs, use a surrogate, or have kids at all, come down to money rather than choice.
Content warning: this episode contains strong language and discusses fertility struggles and reproductive health candidly.
Read the full New York Times story on the global surrogacy industry in Ukraine, including how the war affected surrogate mothers: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/magazine/surrogates-ukraine.html
Catch our full conversation with Deirdre from Hertility on fertility testing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmi_ba-58nQ
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Chapters
- 00:00:00 Coming up in this episode…
- 00:01:10 Generate x The Curve
- 00:01:29 Catching up: Edinburgh Fringe and financial confessions
- 00:06:57 AOC's public egg-freezing journey sparks a bigger question
- 00:12:37 The affordability of egg freezing
- 00:26:39 The real numbers
- 00:42:40 Generate x The Curve
- 00:43:18 Inside the booming surrogacy industry
- 01:00:00 The dating crisis, and why it changes everything
- 01:11:50 Thank you for listening!
- 01:12:30 Financial disclaimer
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