Jamie Chung used a surrogate because being pregnant might hurt her career

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Why does she talk about having post partum depression in the article?

By definition she is not eligible for this diagnosis.
Omg, wannabe celebrities are such a weird combo of stupid, selfish and elitist.

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Anonymous wrote:What career?

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Anonymous wrote:Chances are, her husband wanted kids badly and she was ambivalent. This was the compromise they reached. Good for them.

Or she's too damn old and couldn't have kids and didn't even have viable eggs. Wasted 20 years of her life to be a reality TV has-been and D list actress instead of having babies naturally, at an age her body could have easily bounced back from.

I usually think that’s harsh but Chung is 39 and Asians have documented studies showing it’s harder for them to conceive as their fertile eggs are in shorter supply.

All of my Korean friends who had babies in their 20s bounced back immediately and are still skinny and adorable and still get carded for wine.

What does that have to do with their egg supply? Nothing. You have to rush to pop out babies early if your fertility rates are super pitiful post 29.

Asian American women have 33% lower successful pregnancy rates after IVF treatment compared to Caucasian women⁵. Multiple studies have affirmed the need for further research to better understand why.

Studies have found lower pregnancy rates, both with and without fertility treatments, among Asian women compared to their Caucasian counterparts without clear causes

https://www.mochimag.com/lifestyle/health/is-asian-fertility-a-thing/

Um most Asian American women I know had babies in their mid-30s. I’m not questioning the study, but very few educated women in big cities have in their 20s.

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And that is the real issue.

American women were sold a lie that they could have it all. The reality is you are likely to struggle with fertility if you wait until your 40s to have a baby. You are more fertile in your 20s. You also have a better chance of landing a good husband in your 20s.

There was an excellent npr segment a million years ago on the topic. It not only focused on fertility, but on the economics of marrying and having babies after college. The study focused on women staying home for several years after college to have kids before seriously entering the workforce.

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Is this like Gabby Union's baby that not only wasn't carried by her, looks nothing like her, has no motherly connection with her, and safe bet was not her egg? Perfectly normal for Holly-weird. But I'm sure squandering her eggs to make those Tyler Perry straight to DVD movies was *so* worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:Chances are, her husband wanted kids badly and she was ambivalent. This was the compromise they reached. Good for them.

Or she's too damn old and couldn't have kids and didn't even have viable eggs. Wasted 20 years of her life to be a reality TV has-been and D list actress instead of having babies naturally, at an age her body could have easily bounced back from.

I usually think that’s harsh but Chung is 39 and Asians have documented studies showing it’s harder for them to conceive as their fertile eggs are in shorter supply.

All of my Korean friends who had babies in their 20s bounced back immediately and are still skinny and adorable and still get carded for wine.

What does that have to do with their egg supply? Nothing. You have to rush to pop out babies early if your fertility rates are super pitiful post 29.

Asian American women have 33% lower successful pregnancy rates after IVF treatment compared to Caucasian women⁵. Multiple studies have affirmed the need for further research to better understand why.

Studies have found lower pregnancy rates, both with and without fertility treatments, among Asian women compared to their Caucasian counterparts without clear causes

https://www.mochimag.com/lifestyle/health/is-asian-fertility-a-thing/

Um most Asian American women I know had babies in their mid-30s. I’m not questioning the study, but very few educated women in big cities have in their 20s.

^^^^^

And that is the real issue.

American women were sold a lie that they could have it all. The reality is you are likely to struggle with fertility if you wait until your 40s to have a baby. You are more fertile in your 20s. You also have a better chance of landing a good husband in your 20s.

There was an excellent npr segment a million years ago on the topic. It not only focused on fertility, but on the economics of marrying and having babies after college. The study focused on women staying home for several years after college to have kids before seriously entering the workforce.

More like 30. Fertility falls off a cliff at 30, especially if you've never had a child.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does she talk about having post partum depression in the article?

By definition she is not eligible for this diagnosis.
Omg, wannabe celebrities are such a weird combo of stupid, selfish and elitist.

Like Gabby Union dressing up in a hospital gown, no makeup, and pretending she just went through labor.

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I get she didn’t want to gain weight, but the irony is, being pregnant didn’t hurt my (albeit normal) career at all. Having actual children definitely hurt my career.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this like Gabby Union's baby that not only wasn't carried by her, looks nothing like her, has no motherly connection with her, and safe bet was not her egg? Perfectly normal for Holly-weird. But I'm sure squandering her eggs to make those Tyler Perry straight to DVD movies was *so* worth it.

I don't think this is like Gabby's situation. She's a rape survivor. Maybe she was too traumatized to go through childbirth and by the time she was finally mentally ready she wasn't able to.

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Anonymous wrote:I get she didn’t want to gain weight, but the irony is, being pregnant didn’t hurt my (albeit normal) career at all. Having actual children definitely hurt my career.

Pretty sure this wannabe actress has outsourced childcare…and perhaps parenting.

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I don’t think you can hire a surrogate just because you don’t want to be pregnant. There are laws around this. A doctor has to certify that you can’t carry. My friend tried to use surrogacy because her first pregnancy was really hard with nausea etc but none of her doctors (OB, cardiologist, other specialists she has for pre-existing conditions) would write the letter she needed for Shady Grove.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think you can hire a surrogate just because you don’t want to be pregnant. There are laws around this. A doctor has to certify that you can’t carry. My friend tried to use surrogacy because her first pregnancy was really hard with nausea etc but none of her doctors (OB, cardiologist, other specialists she has for pre-existing conditions) would write the letter she needed for Shady Grove.

Celebrities (yes even ones as barely famous as this) have access to doctors who will say what they want.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this like Gabby Union's baby that not only wasn't carried by her, looks nothing like her, has no motherly connection with her, and safe bet was not her egg? Perfectly normal for Holly-weird. But I'm sure squandering her eggs to make those Tyler Perry straight to DVD movies was *so* worth it.

Hey if she made tons of $ off those, yes it was worth it. She still has her kid and the cash.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at IMDB, she's done a few random guest spots and some voiceover work, so the whole "career" angle seems like BS.

She was on the HBO show Lovecraft Country. Looking at her IMDB it seems like she's been doing small parts trying to break in for at least a decade and with the Big Hero 6 and Lovecraft Country finally getting some momentum. I can see her being terrified to mess up her "big chance."

She’s 39 so highly unlikely she will get a huge break and become a mega star at this point. Thousands of women actors have carried babies and managed just fine. She sounds highly narcissistic.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think you can hire a surrogate just because you don’t want to be pregnant. There are laws around this. A doctor has to certify that you can’t carry. My friend tried to use surrogacy because her first pregnancy was really hard with nausea etc but none of her doctors (OB, cardiologist, other specialists she has for pre-existing conditions) would write the letter she needed for Shady Grove.

Celebrities (yes even ones as barely famous as this) have access to doctors who will say what they want.

…and they don’t go to Shady Grave.

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Anonymous wrote:Chances are, her husband wanted kids badly and she was ambivalent. This was the compromise they reached. Good for them.

Or she's too damn old and couldn't have kids and didn't even have viable eggs. Wasted 20 years of her life to be a reality TV has-been and D list actress instead of having babies naturally, at an age her body could have easily bounced back from.

She’s worth $5 million. How much were you worth at 39?

I’m 39 with 3 children (all of whom I gave birth to) and my nw is $10M.