Priyanka Chopra froze her eggs in her 30s as she ‘hadn’t settled down with the right person’

Priyanka Chopra has revealed that she decided to freeze her eggs in her early 30s because she “hadn’t settled down with the right person.”

The 40-year-old actress has been married to Nick Jonas, 30, since 2018, and they welcomed their daughter Malti Marie, via surrogacy, in January 2022.

Now, Priyanka has revealed that she decided to freeze her eggs at 30 as she wanted. ease your anxiety about your fertility, should you decide to have a child later in life.

Speaking in Dax Shepherd Armchair Expert Podcast, she said: ‘I did it when I was in my early 30s. He could continue on an ambitious warpath that he wanted to achieve. I wanted to get to a certain place in my career.

‘I hadn’t met the person I wanted to have children with either or I didn’t see him. That’s anxiety-inducing.

She continued: ‘[I was] 35, and my mom is an OB/GYN and she’s like, ’36 – Just do it.

While she admitted that the procedure is very expensive, she recommended that others do it and save up for it.

She said: ‘I tell everyone that [freeze their eggs]. my mom had said [to do it as many times as you need] for me, and I did it for me too…

‘I tell all my younger friends that the biological clock is real.

“It becomes much more difficult to get pregnant after 35 and carry to term and all that, especially with women who have been working their entire lives.

The star added that preserving fertility is a great gift to you, saying: “Science is in an amazing place right now.”

‘It’s the best gift you’re going to give yourself because you’re taking power from your biological clock, and you can work as long as you want.

Your eggs will still be the same age as when you froze them.

She also candidly shared that at first she wasn’t sure about dating Nick because he was ten years her junior.

Priyanka added that she didn’t know if the age difference would affect her dream of having a family.

The mother-of-one said: “I always knew I wanted kids, which was one of the main reasons I didn’t want to date Nick.” [Jonas] at the time because I was like, ‘I don’t know if he wants kids at 25,’ at the time. But I have always wanted to have children. I love children.’

Priyanka recently revealed that she and her husband Nick have matching tattoos.

speaking to british fashionthe actress shared the sweet meaning behind her ink.

“I have a check and a box behind my ears,” Priyanka began. My husband has them in his arms because when he proposed to me he asked me to check all the boxes for him and would I check another one?’

Priyanka didn’t show off her hidden tattoos, but did take a moment to talk about her ‘super considerate’ husband.

‘When he’s around, everything seems fine. He has taught me to approach things from a much calmer place, ”he told the outlet.

Priyanka and Nick became romantically involved in May 2018 and tied the knot just two months later.

In January 2022, the age-gap couple welcomed their first daughter, Malti Marie, via surrogate.

As DailyMail.com exclusively reported at the time, the surrogate gave birth twelve weeks early.

Born at just 27 weeks, baby Malti had to stay in the NICU of a hospital in Southern California for her first 100 days.

In the same British Vogue interview, Priyanka addressed the criticism she and her husband have faced for choosing surrogacy.

“The fact that you don’t want to make my medical history public doesn’t give you the right to make up the reasons,” said the mother of one.

The interpreter continued to reflect on having been accused by some of “outsourcing” her pregnancy, in order to concentrate on her career.

“I had medical complications, so this was a necessary step, and I’m very grateful to be in a position where I could do this,” she explained.

“I have developed a tough skin when people talk about me,” she added. ‘But it’s so painful when they talk about my daughter. I’m like, “Keep her out of this.”

‘Nick and I were standing there while she was being intubated. I don’t know how they found what they needed. [in her tiny body] to intubate her

For the next three months, the new parents commuted daily to the neonatal intensive care unit to be with their daughter, a difficult chapter that fell during the first wave of omicron in the US.

“We spent every day with her on my chest, on my husband’s chest,” Priyanka recalled. “I didn’t know if she would make it or not.”