Love Is Blind’s Natalie Lee Explains Why She Froze Her Eggs at 33
Love Is Blind alum Natalie Lee is breaking down her determination to freeze her eggs.
“Freezing my eggs at 33 was fingers down the very best determination I’ve made,” Natalie, 33, wrote through Instagram on Friday, June 20. “Final 12 months, I began to get anxious about my future fertility. I made a decision to freeze my eggs with @ovaeggfreezing. … Though the 2 weeks of injections was powerful for me as somebody who’s terrified of needles, I can’t clarify the aid I felt after finishing my first egg freezing cycle. I may lastly cease panicking in regards to the future and revel in my life once more.”
She added, “Egg freezing isn’t a assure, nevertheless it’s given me higher odds for a profitable future being pregnant. I’m not prepared for motherhood now, however I hope to be sometime, and this provides me somewhat extra time and selection.”
Natalie uploaded a video of the injection course of, which she set to Gracie Abrams’ “That’s So True.”
“POV: You freeze your eggs in your 30s since you’d somewhat be single than settle with the mistaken particular person,” she captioned her publish.
Within the Instagram feedback part, Natalie additional defined the logistics of the method.
“My insurance coverage lined some stuff, however I’ll do a full breakdown for mine,” she added. “Value varies.”
Natalie was beforehand engaged to Shayne Jansen on season 2 of Love Is Blind, which aired in 2022. She referred to as off their engagement on the altar.
Halsey, Rita Ora, Olivia Culpo and extra celebrities have opened up about freezing their eggs through the years. “After I inform people who, they’re like, ‘You’re 23, why do it’s worthwhile to try this? Why do it’s worthwhile to freeze your eggs?’” Halsey stated throughout an April 2018 The Docs look. “Doing ovarian reserve is […]
“We dated after filming the unique [season] … for a number of months,” Natalie solely advised Us Weekly in September 2022. “There undoubtedly was some on and off. You recognize, quite a lot of emotions have been there, particularly after we noticed the Love Is Blind episodes and seeing that love story play out. That introduced quite a lot of feelings and so we did have some talks like, you realize, ‘Did we lose one thing that was, like, particular at that time?’”
In response to Natalie, she broke up with Shayne, now 36, for good after allegedly discovering DMs he despatched to different girls. (The actual property agent, who final dated The Belief alum Julie Theis in 2024, by no means publicly addressed Natalie’s claims.)
Natalie Lee and Shayne Jansen throughout ‘Love Is Blind’ season 2. Netflix
“I believe every little thing that occurred in that state of affairs simply with these and simply sort of how that state of affairs performed out for us was undoubtedly what actually induced me to go away that relationship,” she added to Us.
After Love Is Blind, Natalie bonded with Bachelor Nation alum Blake Moynes.
“Blake and I’ve a wedding pact,” Natalie stated on an April 2024 episode of her and Deepti Vempati’s “Out of the Pods” podcast. “So, if I’m not married by age 35, we stated that we might have youngsters and get married. … You’re one among my favourite folks. … I really feel like the explanation why I used to be so drawn to you is as a result of we share the identical humorousness, like, I’m very self-deprecating [and] you possibly can take it.”
Natalie and Blake, 34, briefly dated once they went on a joint animal conservation journey in July 2022, however their fling fizzled out once they returned to their respective properties in Chicago and Canada.