In an interview in the April issue of Vogue magazine as reported in Parade magazine , “Modern Family” actress Sofia Vergara revealed that she is not only interested in having more kids, she is freezing her eggs in order to do so. Vergara, 40, who already has a 21-year-old son, told the publication, “They want to get as many good eggs as they can because usually you produce them but they’re not good. They have to be perfect, perfect, perfect ones.” Vergara noted that, “My boyfriend, Nick Loeb, is 37, younger than me, never had kids.”
Egg freezing is a now non-experimental way of preserving a woman’s fertility both for social reasons as well as in the unfortunate instance of the need for egg-destroying chemotherapy.
Ideally, it’s best to do before age 38. Most of the studies have been performed on women under 38 and show a 50% pregnancy rate when 6-8 mature eggs are thawed, fertilized and transferred.
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