Enough with the reproductive pressure already

Posted by marieClairvoyant on Aug 19, 2010 in ed's note | 0 comments

Comedian Jessi Klein is an amusing girl who has a way with the written word too. I have been following her work on The Daily Beast and I thought this little piece she wrote about the pressure she felt to freeze her eggs on turning 35 would be  get our Marie Claire debate juices flowing…. Here is a little taster

“I am turning 35 today. As you probably know, 35 is the age when a single woman’s heart explodes like a dream-raisin deferred, and all the petals fall off her vagina and dozens of cats suddenly park themselves in a circle around her cobwebby old hope chest. This is all true. But the one doomsday prediction I thought had kind of evaporated was the idea that after 35 the only baby you can create is the one you see when you pop your Ally McBeal episodes onto the old DVD player. I know plenty of women in their late thirties and early forties who are having happy, healthy, gnocchi-tushed babies. Or at least, I thought I did.” … read more here and tell us what you think should you feel the pressure to freeze your eggs?
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