Just reading an interview with the actress Hilary Swank where she mentions that she froze her eggs at 37 and that was how she was able to have twins with her husband at 48. I feel like I’ve read so many female celebrities say they’ve frozen their eggs recently, and evidently at least some of the time it does work. Yet some of the research on it is discouraging, and on the mumsnet threads discussing it that I’ve seen, the consensus usually seems to be that it’s not worth the bother. AIBU to wonder why so many celebrities are doing it if the chances of having a baby that way are really so low? Do they know something that we don’t? Or is it just that they can afford to have endless rounds of egg retrieval, and later on endless rounds of IVF, and therefore the chances are higher for them than they are for people on normal incomes? I’m just curious why there seems to be such a disconnect between celebrities treating it as almost standard (it’s started to feel like), and non-celebrity women feeling it’s unlikely to be worthwhile.