The 36-year-old Chinese-Swedish actress got her eggs frozen last month and made a video to share her emotional journey. We find out more.
On June 29, Ase Wang had five eggs extracted from her body and frozen. She is single, 36 and not planning to have a baby immediately, but went through the painful, expensive and emotional process as she knew she would not be able to have kids naturally, and wanted to keep her options open for when she’s ready to embrace motherhood. And the woman who spoke out about disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein last year and how she was felt she was “treated like a prostitute” during a dinner meeting with him isn’t one to shy away from talking about difficult subjects. She made a daily video diary of her egg-freezing journey and shared it on her socials last week. She tells us over the phone from Bangkok (she splits her time between the Thai city and Singapore), “Why is [freezing your eggs] such a taboo subject? Times have changed — we don’t have to be ashamed anymore.”
In her video, she talks about getting painful hormone shots in the stomach at a Bangkok hospital to help stimulate egg flow, cries on camera as she experiences anxiety and emotional ups and downs due in part to the hormones, and describes her side effects (bloated tummy, soreness, pimples, emotional rollercoasters). When she finally gets her eggs extracted at the end of a 12-day process (she started her injections on June 18), she sobs as she says, “It’s a good day today.”
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