The action star is raising awareness so women “understand what their choices are” on the podcast ‘I’ve Never Said This Before with Tommy DiDario’.
Karen Fukuhara, known for her role in The Boys, revealed that she decided to freeze her eggs after a breakup. She is now speaking out because, “I think it's really important for women to have enough resources and information on the subject.”
In an exclusive clip from the July 30 episode of Tommy DiDario’s podcast, I’ve Never Said This Before with Tommy DiDario, Fukuhara, 32, shared, “I debated about whether or not I wanted to talk about this, but I think it is really important for people to know about: I just went through an egg-freezing process.”
Describing it as a way to “ensure life later,” Fukuhara explained, “I personally did not realize how it can be an easy process — but it can also be like a longer process for some, and for me, it was longer. I just think it’s super-important for women out there to understand what their choices are.”
“It is time-sensitive,” she added, “If I had known all the things I know now, I think I would have done it a couple years before, so yeah. Freeze your eggs if you can.”
As the Cleveland Clinic outlines, freezing your eggs involves “treatment with hormones to stimulate egg production in your ovaries. Your provider removes the eggs and freezes and stores them.”
“When you’re ready to pursue pregnancy, your fertility team thaws the frozen specimen,” which is then used to “create embryos” that are implanted “into your uterus or someone else’s who will carry your baby for you.”
The Cleveland Clinic recommends egg preservation “by age 35 for women who have no immediate plans of having children.”
Fukuhara emphasized, “It’s good to think about those things because options are available more when you're younger.”
“I didn't really think about it until a few years back and it was like a big thought — I never dated to marry, to be honest. I just feel like when you're in your early twenties, you don't really think about like, ‘Oh, is he marriage material? Is he father material?' I just never thought about it.”
“I was like, ‘Oh, this is fun. I’m dating someone that I like.’”
But after her recent breakup, Fukuhara reconsidered. “So, I was like, ‘Okay, maybe I should freeze my eggs.’”
“But long story short, without getting too far deep into it ... Look into that if you are a woman.”
DiDario praised Fukuhara for sharing her experience, saying it was “really cool” because “there are a lot of women I know as well who debate it… I've had a few people in my life regret that [they didn’t], so I think it's an important message to put out.”
“It just gives you the option, right?” he clarified. “You don't have to decide anything?”
“Yeah, no, and I think that I’m going to have a natural birth,” she confirmed — then added with a laugh, “It’s always good to have insurance as well, just in case there’s no one that pops up that I can have a baby with.”
The Quran - Chapter Al-Munafiqun : 10
And donate from what We have provided for you before death comes to one of you, and you cry, “My Lord! If only You delayed me for a short while, I would give in charity and be one of the righteous.”
