Jania Ashlynn
The actress was a guest on the Armchair Experts podcast where she discussed her journey with motherhood and the decision to have her eggs frozen.
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“I did it in my early 30s. I could continue on an ambitious warpath that I wanted to achieve. I wanted to get to a certain place in my career,” she said. “I also hadn’t met the person I wanted to have children with or I didn’t see that. That’s anxiety-inducing. [I was] 35, and my mom’s an OB-GYN who’s like, ’36 — Just do it.’ “
“I tell everyone to [freeze their eggs],” she continued, “My mom had said [to do it as many times as you need] to me, and I did do it for myself as well.”
She did note the expense of the procedure, and encouraged interested women to save up and “do it anytime, and you can do it multiple times.”
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“I tell all my younger friends the biological clock is real,” she shared. “It gets so much harder to get pregnant after 35 and to carry to term and all of that, especially with women that have been working all their lives.”
“But science is at such an amazing place right now,”she added. “It’s the best gift you’ll give yourself because you’re taking the power from your biological clock, and you can work until however long you want. Your eggs will still be the same age as when you froze them.”
She talked about how she’s always had the desire to have children. “I always knew I wanted kids, which was one of the big reasons I didn’t want to date Nick [Jonas] at that time ’cause I was like, ‘I don’t know if he wants kids at 25,’ at that time. But I’ve always wanted kids. I love kids.”
Nick and Priyanka welcomed baby Malti Marie on January 15, 2022.
