AOC announces completion of egg retrieval journey, vows to share more public updates on process
“Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez completed her egg-freezing journey and vowed to continue sharing updates, despite complaining last week about the “negativity” she’s faced for her social media postings on the process.
The 36-year-old Bronx and Queens congresswomen took her nearly 10 million Instagram followers along for the final day of the two week process — egg retrieval day — documenting the day starting at 5:30 a.m., in a post shared on Saturday.
Ocasio-Cortez was decked out in skincare eye masks for the procedure, which she thought “was a really nice way to bring some lightness to this process,” she said.
After the egg-retrieval procedure was complete, Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said, “[I] was informed of my final count, both in the number of eggs retrieved and which of those eggs were mature.
“As I’ve mentioned previously, out of respect for all the different kinds of fertility and family journeys that people have, I will not be sharing my specific numbers.”
“So instead of focusing on generalizations and fear, I instead want to encourage people to operate from the facts of your body specifically and knowledge of our reproductive systems, particularly shared by licensed fertility specialists,” she said.
The congresswoman recalled how her doctor explained the egg retrieval procedure where she would be “under anesthesia and asleep the entire time.”
“And as I sat on the other side of my doctor’s desk, I had this sudden intrusive fear-based thought. I imagined myself waking up totally alone,” she said in the social media video that has the comments section limited.
“Now when I fast-forward a couple of weeks later at the end of today, I can really confidently say that I couldn’t have been more wrong. In fact I woke up surrounded by the deepest and most important friendships in my entire life,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
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“I think that it really drove home that a family is always what you make it,” she added, making no mention of her longtime fiancé Riley Roberts.
The lefty legislator announced on Aug. 8 that she was freezing her eggs and began unleashing a series of social media posts taking the public through the process.
Following the announcement that she was freezing her eggs to feel “more in control of my life,” speculation began to swirl over whether AOC had quietly split with Roberts.
The 36-year-old congresswoman, who is rumored to be mulling a bid for higher office in 2028, underwent the two-week process during the August recess, when the US House of Representatives is out of session for over a month.
Despite commenting last week about the scrutiny and media frenzy she’s faced since sharing her journey, and telling a Post reporter that she doesn’t “comment on my private life” when asked about her relationship status with her fiancé — AOC promised to continue sharing updates as she recovers from the procedure.
“Many of you have asked if I will do a few more videos after my procedure day. The answer is yes!” she wrote on Instagram Saturday.
“I will be following up with a few more vlogs to show recovery and answer some final questions and topics,” she concluded, before thanking her followers for their well wishes which “made an impact.”
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