Should you freeze your eggs?
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, |
| 0:10.0 | a woman being misled |
| 0:12.0 | about the benefits of freezing their eggs. |
| 0:21.0 | Since Alexandra was little, |
| 0:23.0 | she's believed that the pieces of her life |
| 0:26.0 | would eventually fall into place. |
| 0:28.0 | I feel like we're a generation that have been told we can have everything. |
| 0:33.0 | Have a great career, get married, have a family. |
| 0:36.0 | She went to university, worked hard, got well-paid work and lived abroad. |
| 0:42.0 | I have an amazing life. I have a great job. |
| 0:45.0 | I have really great friends. I can only have holidays. |
| 0:47.0 | I've got loads of hobbies. |
| 0:49.0 | But I noticed particularly when I lived in Hong Kong, |
| 0:51.0 | I had a really great group of female friends, |
| 0:53.0 | all super successful, amazing people, all single. |
| 0:57.0 | A couple of them have met people, but not all. |
| 1:01.0 | Single again and back in the UK. |
| 1:04.0 | Alexandra found herself in lockdown |
| 1:06.0 | with a lot of time to think about what was really important to her. |
| 1:11.0 | Having a family was something she'd always imagined would just happen. |
| 1:16.0 | But it wasn't happening. |
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