Marcia Cross & Donor Eggs – Did she or didn’t she & does it matter?
In a recent article, actress Marcia Cross (Melrose Place & Desperate Housewives) speaks about her thoughts on the role of donor eggs. It is a common story – married late at 42 and desperate for a family. There are some people who feels that if she did indeed use donor eggs, she could reduce the stigma that seems to surround their use. Does it seem easier to admit to adoption than it is to admit to the use of donor eggs? Is the stigma real or imagined?
Cross also spoke out about the use of donor eggs among older women trying to conceive. “When a woman gets older, they get donor eggs, which doesn’t make the baby any less beautiful or perfect. One’s own eggs only last so long.”
Though she has neither confirmed nor denied whether she herself used donated eggs, Cross definitely beat the odds, becoming pregnant with twins through IVF at the age of 44. Fraternal twin daughters Savannah and Eden were born on February 20, 2007. To Cross, having babies later in life was “like a miracle… I didn’t think it would happen.”
December 18th, 2008 at 10:00 am
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December 26th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
That is interesting that the article is worded so obtusely, yet she specifically advocates for donor eggs as an option. Maybe instead of a stigma, she simply feels that as a celebrity it’s not the entire world’s business. It’d be one thing for Jane Regular to tell the people in her life whom she chose to tell; but another for someone in the public eye. The tabloids would track down the donor and dig up every horrible story that ever happened to her second cousins twice removed…