Daisy Kelliher gets candid about her experience of undergoing a second round of egg freezing.
The Sailboat below deck The 37-year-old star shared in a series of posts on Instagram that she decided to freeze her eggs a second time to give herself the best chance of having a child in the future.
In her first post, she shared a pre-surgery selfie dressed in a hospital gown and a blue hair cap. She accompanied it with a video of a friend who asked her how she was while she was lying in a hospital bed. “Good. [I’m] just very tired and bloated, [and] I have cramps,” she replied.
She repeated this in her caption, revealing that it had been “over a week” since she had the procedure, and the “main physical symptoms” she experienced during the process were “bloating, fatigue” and hunger, all of which disappeared after she done completed. She also noted that this time she “went in pretty prepared” because she knew the process, although she had difficulty with the “time frame” she chose for the procedure.
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The chief flight attendant noted that she partnered with fertility clinic Apricity for this round of freezing her eggs, and that “the goal was to get five eggs.” However, the doctor was only able to secure “three eggs” from “six follicles”, adding that they were “not sure why this happened”.
“I was pretty upset,” Kelliher admitted. “To have expectations and not meet those expectations was obviously very disappointing, for me personally physically it’s fine, but mentally I find the whole thing so draining.”
“Nine months ago I got 10 eggs, and now I have three, it creates intrusive thoughts in your head,” she added.
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Daisy Kelliher at the European premiere of “Transformers One” in London on September 19, 2024.
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In a subsequent post, the reality TV star shared another photo of herself smiling after the procedure in a clinic bed. She said she wanted to document “this journey for women seeking information” and now feels “much better about it all.”
“I have taken my future under my control and have 13 frozen eggs that I can use if I want to do so in the future,” she wrote. “This doesn’t guarantee a baby, but it does guarantee I’ve done everything I can when the time is right.”
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She continued: “My thoughts are with everyone currently going through any fertility experience, past or future, and thank you all for the overwhelming love and support throughout my experience.”
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Daisy Kelliher on ‘Sailboat Below Deck’.
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In an Instagram video posted earlier this month, she previously explained why she wanted to go ahead with a second egg retrieval, saying that since her first round went so well, she thought she should try again in hopes of having a family in the future.
“The reason I decided to freeze my eggs is because I was 36, now I’m 37 and I’m still single. I would love the option to have a family,” she said in the video. – Right now I would like a family, but if that doesn’t happen, that’s okay.
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