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Savannah Chrisley knows what’s best for her future.
And that includes being prepared for whatever that future may bring by freezing her eggs. The Chrisley Knows Best alum shared where she is at in her journey during the April 14 episode of her podcast Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley, noting, “We're just at an egg retrieval.”
However, not everyone in her family—which includes parents Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley—has been whole-heartedly on board. And though Todd, who was a guest on the podcast, expressed some hesitance over the procedure, he has insisted on being an active part of the process.
“He's calling me during my first appointment yesterday,” Savannah recounted. “And the ultrasound tech, she was like a huge fan, loves us, she's so sweet. And she asked about you. And I said, ‘Oh, he's blown my phone up like 15 times today already.’"
To that, Todd simply explained, “I was nervous. I wanted to know every step of everything that was going on.”
While the 28-year-old, who has detailed her struggles with endometriosis since being diagnosed at 18, is the one going through this fertility journey, Todd described having sympathy pains whenever his daughter has felt unwell.
“You told me that you had a cyst on one of your ovaries and I feel like I have one on my testicle because you said you were having abdominal pains and I felt it the night before,” Todd joked. “I think there's something to that ‘cause I feel all your symptoms.”
While Savannah said her parents “have been great” about her desire to freeze her eggs, she revealed that her dad asked, “Why do you have to do this?”
“I just never heard of such a system,” Todd admitted, “because, you know, when I was growing up, you screwed and got pregnant and I had no problem with it. I never had a problem getting somebody pregnant.”
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Savannah has previously shared her desire to freeze her eggs, admitting her experience with endometriosis and its own procedures led her to start thinking about it.
“I always thought I'd be a young mom,” she told Life & Style in a 2020 interview, “so we definitely do go in and do the talks of potentially freezing my eggs and just all the different options that there are.”
Savannah is not the only star who has detailed their egg freezing journey. Read on to learn about others who have frozen their eggs.
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Kristen Stewart
The Twilight alum shared whether she and fiancée Dylan Meyer would like to have kids one day.
"We've done really annoying things like freeze our eggs and stuff," Kristen said on a March 2024 episode of the podcast Not Skinny But Not Fat. "So if we want to we can."
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Priyanka Chopra
The Quantico star—who now shares daughter Malti Marie with husband Nick Jonas—expressed how she "felt such a freedom" when she froze her eggs.
"I did it in my early 30s," Priyanka said on a March 2023 episode of Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast. "I could continue on an ambitious warpath that I wanted to achieve. I wanted to get to a certain place in my career, and I also hadn't met the person I wanted to have children with or I didn't see that. You know that's anxiety inducing that OK, you know, 35 and my mom's an OBGYN who's like, '36, just do it.'"
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Kaitlyn Bristowe
The former Bachelorette recalled how she froze her eggs at age 32 and the impact it had on her relationship with her body.
"I remember when I was freezing my eggs it really took my focus away from my body dysmorphia," Kaitlyn said on an August 2023 episode of her podcast Off the Vine. "And it made me go, ‘Wait, our bodies are so cool.’"
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Emma Roberts
The Scream Queens actress—who shares son Rhodes with ex Garrett Hedlund—detailed how she decided to freeze her eggs in her late 20s after being diagnosed with endometriosis.
"By then, it had affected my fertility," Emma told Cosmopolitan in November 2020. "I was told, 'You should probably freeze your eggs or look into other options.'"
"I said, 'I’m working right now. I don’t have time to freeze my eggs,'" she continued. "To be honest, I was also terrified. Just the thought of going through that and finding out, perhaps, that I wouldn’t be able to have kids….I did freeze my eggs eventually, which was a difficult process."
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Rita Ora
The 'I Will Never Let You Down" artist told The Independent in December 2021 that she froze her eggs at age 24 and then again at 27.
"I think as women, we put that pressure on ourselves, subconsciously, because we feel like that is our duty—to create and give life," Rita added. "So, I just wanted to not worry about it. And I didn’t after, and it was the best thing I ever did
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Rebel Wilson
The Pitch Perfect alum—who's raising daughter Royce with fiancée Ramona Agruma—told fans about her journey to freezing her eggs in 2020.
"As all good career women out there should know, you know, if that's something that interests you, it's a pretty good time to do it," Rebel noted in an Instagram Live at the time. "And getting to 40 is kind of leaving it even a little too late. It's better to do it a bit earlier if you can."
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Andi Dorfman
While the former Bachelorette said freezing her eggs wasn't always part of her plan, she decided to do so before she turned 30 and spoke about why she's glad she did.
"I have zero regrets about freezing my eggs," Andi told E! News in an exclusive March 2023 interview. "I'm actually super happy I did it because I think in hindsight—even though I didn't feel it at the time—I look back and I know that it kept me from settling."
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Kesha
The "TiK ToK" singer opened up about how she "almost died in January" 2023.
As Kesha previosuly told Self, weeks after freezing her eggs, she found herself unable to walk. The magazine noted she was taken to the hospital, where doctors determined she had developed a complication from the procedure that they partially attributed to a weakened immune system.“I finally feel recovered, but it took a couple months,” the Grammy nominee continued. “It was horrifying.”However, she made it clear she thinks everyone should do what's best for them.“I just was taking my reproductive health into my own hands,” she added. “And I stand by everyone doing that and [honoring] your body.”
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