The supermodel says she wanted the 'insurance policy' and underwent the fertility process with her then-boyfriend
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- Molly Sims says she considered freezing her eggs at 35 but was advised to freeze embryos instead
- She met her husband Scott Stuber just before her egg-freezing deadline and had a tough conversation with him about her plans
- The supermodel says she made a “promise to myself” and reminds women that “it’s awful to settle” for something you don’t want
Molly Sims says that when she was 35, she decided she would freeze her eggs in two years as an "insurance policy," explaining, "I woke up and I'm like, 'Oh boy, I want a family.' "
The supermodel, now 53, shared her fertility journey with host Maggie Sellers on the June 3 episode of Hot Smart Rich, explaining that when she went to her doctor to freeze her eggs, she was advised to freeze embryos instead.
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Sims said her doctor told her that freezing eggs, " 'doesn't really work right now' " but explained, "'what we can do is we can find new sperm and we can' — I'm like, 'Wait, I am not freezing embryos.' "
She shared that her doctor told her, " 'Think about it and come back to me. We're making great strides in egg freezing.' And I go, 'Okay.' And so I was so pissed."
Still, Sims decided to take her doctor's advice that "it's okay to have an insurance policy. And I just couldn't get it out of my head. And so from that appointment, I made a date in the calendar that if I wasn't with someone, I was going to freeze my eggs."
After that appointment, Sims met her now-husband, film producer Scott Stuber, as her egg-freezing deadline was approaching. Sims shared that she got into an argument with a girlfriend who told her not to tell Stuber about her plan, reasoning, " 'He's gonna totally break up with you.' "
Sims felt that "if he's going to break up with me … I don't know that we really should be thinking about getting married anyway.' "
What followed was "a very hard conversation," Sims says, explaining, "when that date came in 2010, I was doing it with or without him … I'd made this promise to myself."
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When she talked to Stuber, she explained that freezing her eggs wasn't as reliable a process as freezing embryos, but she was moving forward with some kind of fertility preservation procedure. "He kind of looked at me and he goes, 'Let's do it.' "
Sims said she "marched my ass back" to the doctor and they did two rounds of freezing embryos. She and Stuber later welcomed three children: Grey Douglas, 9, Scarlett May, 11, and Brooks Alan, 13, sharing that although they did freeze the embryos, the children were conceived naturally.
As she explained to Sellers, at age 37, "I am considered geriatric and I haven't even started, and I just could not let it go." Sims encouraged other women to maintain the same resolve when it comes to pursuing what they want: "I would say to every woman, don't talk yourself into things that you don't want."
"It's awful to stay in neutral. It's awful to settle."