Although she’s in no rush to have children, Paige DeSorbo is taking steps to preserve her fertility.
The Summer House cast member opened up about her baby plans during the May 14 episode of Giggly Squad, her podcast series with her former castmate Hannah Berner. Paige confirmed she had her first egg-freezing procedure over Mother’s Day weekend and has been feeling quite “maternal” ever since.
“You wanna know why I felt maternal?” she asked. “This is how I knew: Walking down the streets of New York City, I was like, ‘If anyone steps to me right now with my eggs just brewing and ready to be taken out, I’ll f—king cut someone.’”
Paige DeSorbo shares an update on her fertility journey
Paige’s egg retrieval was performed by Dr. Joshua Klein, a reproductive endocrinologist and co-founder of NYC’s Extend Fertility clinic.
“He was amazing,” the Hamptons Housemate said about her doctor. “I felt smarter after being around him. Every time he said, ‘Good question' to me, I was like, ‘I’m a good student.’”
Paige said she had her “trigger shot,” aka hormone injection, on May 7 and went in for her egg retrieval on the morning of May 9. She said the surgical retrieval took about 20 minutes and yielded more than two dozen eggs.
Paige DeSorbo details her egg-retrieval experience
“My mom came down with me,” she said. “They retrieved a total of 28 eggs, and then they call you the next morning to see how many [eggs] matured. So they took out 28. I only had 13 survive. So I have 13 frozen now… That’s a really good amount of eggs.”
Paige confessed she wasn’t sure if she would do another round, but if she did, the procedure would be done in the fall.
“I need to give my body a break,” she said. “I’m very proud of myself for like doing the whole process… It felt very serendipitous that I did it over Mother’s Day weekend. I truly do feel less pressure. It’s like, OK, and even if I only have one child, that is what is meant for the world.”
Paige DeSorbo explains why she's freezing her eggs
Paige spoke about her egg-freezing plans back in January, just weeks after announcing her split from Southern Charm’s Craig Conover. The NYC native explained her decision in the January 28 episode of Giggly Squad, saying she was doing it for “security.”
“When I first decided to freeze my eggs, it wasn’t like, ‘Oh my God, my career!’ I genuinely thought that at 32 I would have a kid,” she recalled. “But always in the back of my head I was, like, what if I get to 39, 40, and I’m like, ‘Wait, I want one more’… Now it’s different, I need it as a security … but it is making me relax a little bit though, knowing that I’m doing it.”
