Hello, Freckled Foodie fam. Today's episode is with Sammy Sage, who is one of the founders and the chief creative officer over at

Betches. She has actually been on the show before with Alene. We did our like New Year's resolution episode and today we are chatting all about her

decision to freeze her eggs and embryos. What that process looks like, the retrieval, the results, what that has now

led her to consider the current process she is in and then also her decision to no longer co-host the Betches podcast diet

certs tomorrow as her relationship with her body and diet culture has evolved. So honestly we dive into a bunch. I was in some sort of mood

today. My mind is just in 20,000 places and I'm freaking exhausted. So thankfully, um, Sammy and I are very good friends and I could just

like sit back and chill and have a conversation with her and I didn't have to prep anything. But I hope you enjoyed today's episode. I feel it really is just a look inside of a conversation between two friends.

Sammy, welcome back to Freckles, Foodie and Friends. I'm so excited to have you, but also just so glad that it's you I'm interviewing today because I am just like in another world tired, like, manic. I just

realized I hadn't taken so often two days. I like the first time I've ever forgotten to take it. And I don't think yeah, I don't think I could fathom like actually having to

interview someone formally that like I don't know. You know what I mean? I just want to catch up. Yes, you do not have to be on for me. I will definitely, you know, I will carry the show. I'm here for you. So this is Betches on Freckles, Foodie, Sam. Welcome, Sammy. Thank you. I have been like thinking about this conversation because an excited for it because I feel like I'm bursting with things to talk to you about.

Specifically that I know that you will empathize with and be so on board with. And I just am ready to put it all out there. Amazing. So obviously there are two things I really want to focus on in this conversation. One, specifically being the decision to freeze your eggs, which obviously is why we originally talked about you come back on. I also if we have time would love to chat about just the decision you made, which we talked about personally to no longer co host diet starts tomorrow.

And like that move and what your future holds and just what's going on with you mentally. So first, the egg freezing.

Can you yeah, like let's dive right in. How old are you 32 about to be 33 in April context for people. So let's start from the beginning. Like, why did you decide that you wanted to freeze your eggs?

Okay, so I for a number of reasons having to do with my family and my upbringing and my husband's also younger than I am, but that's not really I mean that actually is a factor. But let's take me. Okay, let's take back to when I actually made this decision, which was like now a year ago or even more like I started really like our first consultation was over a year ago with the clinic was was RMA.

And at that time, I was like, I cannot have kids like I am freaking out, like I don't know if I'd be a good mom. There's so much I want to do with work. I want to travel like

Avi also super active and like still also early in his career. He's in his late 20s. So like, you know, he's most guys are like, okay, I didn't know that I'm but oh, yeah, yeah, he's four years younger than me. So, but he's very he's very mature.

Because he grew up well partially not not entirely, but he grew up in an orthodox Jewish family. He is no longer at all religious.

But his entire family is so it's not like that crazy out of the realm to have to get married and have kids young. But so I think in that way, he's very mature also just he himself is very mature. But

The he didn't he felt like, oh, I have more to do, you know, especially with like his career, like he really is just like starting out when I think about like the grand scheme of things.

So we were like, we don't want to do this right now. We don't want to and the timeline that that like 35

cloth right feels very like imminent, especially if you're like not sure how much you want to have. If you want one, do you want to you have to space them out, like, obviously, I didn't I wasn't really like aware necessarily of my fertility or like my health in that area.

So we, you know, we did the consult and we ultimately were like, let's let's do this as like a safety net even if we have our first kid by conceiving on our own.

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