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Baby Boom! Cameron Diaz Welcomes Baby No. 3 at 53, Part Of A Growing Trend. · I Do, Part 2

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Speaker 1: Heylks. It is Monday, May fourth, and Cameron Diaz just
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Speaker 1: had a baby at fifty three years old, So why
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Speaker 1: can't we And with that, welcome to this episode of
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Speaker 1: Amy and TJ or Parents to Be. I should say,
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Speaker 1: why are you laughing? We talk about this some kind
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Speaker 1: of Sometimes you think I'm joking about this, but I
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Speaker 1: am moved to a moment. Some oftentimes I think, Wow,
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Speaker 1: I wish you and I could have kids together. Cameron
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Speaker 1: Diaz is showing us the way that's true.
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Speaker 2: Having no, she's fifty three, I don't know, we don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't believe she was pregnant, but she had a baby.
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Speaker 2: She welcomed a baby with her husband, Benji Madden, and
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Speaker 2: it was their third child, So third child at fifty three.
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Speaker 2: He's forty seven. I know she had her second child
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Speaker 2: at fifty one and her first one in her late forties.
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Speaker 2: But defying the odds in a lot of ways about
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Speaker 2: what the expectations are around older women. You finally find
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Speaker 2: the love of your life, you want to start a
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Speaker 2: family with them, and a lot of women feel like
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Speaker 2: they don't have options. But celebrities are proving more and
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Speaker 2: more and more, and granted you usually have to have
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Speaker 2: some means to be able to pull this off because
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Speaker 2: it isn't something that ordinarily can happen naturally.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's possible, but.
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Speaker 2: Extremely rare, so usually you do need some financial help,
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Speaker 2: meaning donor eggs ivf assaragate even perhaps. But celebrities and
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Speaker 2: women around the world are proving it is possible.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we know it's possible. Is this going to be
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Speaker 1: the direction things are going? As women, at least I
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Speaker 1: keep hearing, continue to delay sometimes marriage or having kids
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Speaker 1: because they want to do career first, so they want
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Speaker 1: to do whatever. Is this the direction things are going
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Speaker 1: to go?
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Speaker 2: It appears so, and a lot of women in their
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Speaker 2: twenties and thirties are making plans to give themselves more
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Speaker 2: option by freezing their eggs and so, look, the whole
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Speaker 2: issue is, and this is pretty remarkable when you see
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Speaker 2: what a woman's body does. But you're born with millions
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Speaker 2: of eggs and by the time you're forty, you have
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Speaker 2: ten percent of those eggs left. So your fertility rates
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Speaker 2: or your ability to get pregnant, drastically decrease after the
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Speaker 2: age of thirty five, and that is why you're called Basically,
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Speaker 2: it's a geriatric pregnancy basically if you are over the
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Speaker 2: age of thirty five. But now we are seeing plenty
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Speaker 2: of women at the age of forty and yes, fifty
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Speaker 2: and beyond getting pregnant either with help. And is it
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Speaker 2: possible to carry a child after menopause. Yes, it is
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Speaker 2: with a donor egg, with some help from some drugs
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Speaker 2: and hormones, and under the care of a physician.
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Speaker 3: But it's remarkable. We do talk about it all the time.
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Speaker 2: We have yes, joked about it, Yes, mentioned how wonderful
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Speaker 2: it would be. And I've often said, yeah, if I
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Speaker 2: was a little younger, or maybe before my cancer, all
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Speaker 2: of this would have been something we would have seriously considered.
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Speaker 3: But it is.
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Speaker 2: It's inspirational because I think a lot of folks think, oh,
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Speaker 2: that's selfish, the child will have a parent who's too old.
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Speaker 2: But there are so many studies that have been done
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Speaker 2: over the last several decades showing that that's not the case.
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Speaker 2: That you have wiser, calmer, better parents, you have children
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Speaker 2: who have better outcomes, higher IQs, even taller. I've seen
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Speaker 2: all these studies where it's actually quite different than what
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Speaker 2: people anticipated.
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Speaker 1: Have you seen anything much of anything? I know you
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Speaker 1: haven't gone that deep into it. But anything that starts
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Speaker 1: to suggest a drumbeat of it's bad for the kid.
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Speaker 1: Is there much of a negative that anyone suggests that
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Speaker 1: you just reeled off some of the quick highlights and
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Speaker 1: the positives. I mean, is anyone out there saying you
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Speaker 1: should not have a child by the age after the
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Speaker 1: age of blank because you're going to harm your child
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Speaker 1: in some way?
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Speaker 3: You know what I have to tell you. I was shocked.
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Speaker 3: I saw almost only positive.
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Speaker 2: Articles, positive statistics, encouragement, inspiration, and I really didn't see
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Speaker 2: a lot of negativity. Now, granted, they do talk about
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Speaker 2: in several of these articles, and a lot of women
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Speaker 2: older women who are or have become the public face
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Speaker 2: perhaps of being an older mom aka Jenna Jackson who had.
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Speaker 3: A baby at the age of fifty.
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Speaker 2: They have talked about how people will make comments or
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Speaker 2: do judge them for being selfish. But it looks as
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Speaker 2: though all of the material that people have looked at
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Speaker 2: and studied for women who have been older, who have
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Speaker 2: had children, it's all been positive.
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Speaker 3: And maybe it's just yeah, yeah, it's public.
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Speaker 2: It's formed opinion based on what we think is right
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Speaker 2: or what we think you should do. But the truth
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Speaker 2: is this is such a personal decision and it's based
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Speaker 2: on your experience and your family and your dynamic and
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Speaker 2: your partner and all the things that you're looking for
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Speaker 2: and what you can provide that child. A young woman
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Speaker 2: at the age of eighteen might be physically ready and
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Speaker 2: at her height or prime to have a baby, but
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Speaker 2: mentally financially, she might be the worst possible candidate to
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Speaker 2: be a mom.
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Speaker 1: No, that was you saw me there. It was an
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Speaker 1: interesting way to put it. The only thing as far
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Speaker 1: as pushback or criticism or of someone having it's just
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Speaker 1: us judging others the people.
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Speaker 3: That's exactly what it boils to other people. Okay, that
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Speaker 3: is what I saw.
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Speaker 2: But this is pretty interesting when you look at some
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Speaker 2: of the statistics over the past decade, and we've seen
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Speaker 2: this trend NonStop here in the United States. Birth rates
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Speaker 2: have declined, they are declining, but the birth rate in
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Speaker 2: people aged forty five to forty nine has risen by
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Speaker 2: twelve percent, and it also has risen significantly in people
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Speaker 2: fifty years and older.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of cool.
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Speaker 3: I think it is too.
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Speaker 1: That says a lot, and I think that is a
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Speaker 1: cool I don't know what the numbers will be later,
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Speaker 1: but the idea that people are no recognizing that you
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Speaker 1: have options later that you're not. I mean sometimes, Robes,
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Speaker 1: we know people personally that we believe made bad decisions
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Speaker 1: based on well, I gotta hurry up and get married
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Speaker 1: because my clock is ticking. We know these folks, and
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Speaker 1: plenty of folks are out there. Look, we're not judging
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Speaker 1: anybody for that, but Rodes, I'm saying this takes away
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Speaker 1: right that element of a woman's life in thinking I
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Speaker 1: have to make this decision with this guy about this
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Speaker 1: relationship because I want this other thinges that statistic is
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Speaker 1: the most eye opening an encouraging thing I have heard
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Speaker 1: so far by.
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Speaker 3: The story, agreed.
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Speaker 2: Look, the average age for menopause is fifty one, and
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Speaker 2: most fertility experts, most doctors, will tell you that by
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Speaker 2: the age of forty five, a woman's chance of getting
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Speaker 2: pregnant naturally is almost zero. I mean, it's possible, but
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Speaker 2: it's nearly miraculous.
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Speaker 1: Can I ask you the next thing? This is what
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Speaker 1: I forgot to ask, is the issue of a woman's
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Speaker 1: age having a baby, the issue of getting pregnant or
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Speaker 1: once you are pregnant by a certain age, there is
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Speaker 1: a really high risk.
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Speaker 3: I guess what is.
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Speaker 1: The biggest issue there for women as the clock is ticking.
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Speaker 1: Are they more freaked out I'm not going to be
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Speaker 1: able to get pregnant, or if I do, i'm a
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Speaker 1: high risk pregnancy.
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Speaker 3: I think it's both.
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Speaker 2: But the biggest issue is the amount of eggs you
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Speaker 2: have left and the quality of those eggs. Okay, so
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Speaker 2: you have a diminished quality of eggs. You have very
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Speaker 2: few eggs left by the time you're forty, and then
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Speaker 2: add it to fifty.
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Speaker 3: So here's an idea. Birth. You have millions of eggs
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Speaker 3: when you're born.
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Speaker 2: By the time you reach puberty, it's about three hundred
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Speaker 2: thousand to four hundred thousand. By the time you reach
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Speaker 2: age thirty, it goes down to about one hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: and thirty five.
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Speaker 3: It starts rapidly declining to the point where at.
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Speaker 2: Age forty you might only have five thousand eggs left,
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Speaker 2: and by age fifty one you have less than a thousand.
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Speaker 2: And the ones that are there, I don't know. It
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Speaker 2: just the ones that are there aren't.
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Speaker 3: The best quality.
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Speaker 2: And that's why doctors suggest freezing eggs at twenty or thirty.
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Speaker 3: When your eggs are in.
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Speaker 2: Prime I guess prime ability to have the least amount
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Speaker 2: of potential risks for any sort of birth effect.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, baby, do you have any idea how many people freeze?
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Speaker 1: Like when I hear Piman say I'm going to freeze my.
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Speaker 3: Eggs, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how many they freeze. But it's a
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Speaker 2: couple months process, and you go through certain hormones that
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Speaker 2: they do to boost your egg production. They freeze those eggs,
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Speaker 2: they make sure they're viable, they're in their good quality eggs,
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Speaker 2: so to speak, and then you have that's the point
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Speaker 2: in which you can implant those eggs, your own eggs.
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Speaker 2: You can fertilize them, put them in your body, and
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Speaker 2: they're your eggs, but they're the best version of you basically.
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Speaker 2: So that's oftentimes what happens. And I remember hearing from
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Speaker 2: again fertility specialist saying, if you hear of a woman
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Speaker 2: who actually got pregnant and gave birth to their child
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Speaker 2: over the age of fifty, pretty much anytime over the
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Speaker 2: age of forty five, almost certainly, other than rare occasions,
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Speaker 2: they were able to do so with a donor egg.
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Speaker 3: And then for till the IVF treatments.
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Speaker 1: And we don't know what happened with Cameron Diaz, and
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Speaker 1: it should be known she has I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: probably all we're going to get about the kid. They
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Speaker 1: don't put their kids out there in public.
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Speaker 3: I think it's pretty cool to each the room.
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Speaker 2: But Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden have been very intentional
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Speaker 2: in being extremely private about having kids and even just
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Speaker 2: what that journey was like to have kids at her age.
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Speaker 3: Benji actually put it out on Instagram.
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Speaker 2: He made the announcement saying, Cameron and I are happy,
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Speaker 2: excited and feeling so blessed to announce the birth of
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Speaker 2: our third child, Noduce Nautas Madden.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to the world. Son.
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Speaker 2: So they have a daughter named Radix Wildflower and another
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Speaker 2: son named Cardinal and so look, Cameron Diaz has talked
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Speaker 2: a little bit just about being an older mom and
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Speaker 2: the challenges, but saying that she needed to find the
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Speaker 2: right person and she needed to be in the right
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Speaker 2: place in her life.
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Speaker 3: She's a happier mother.
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Speaker 2: She can obviously financially take care of her children and
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Speaker 2: she has the time not o to do so.
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Speaker 3: She's been able to take a step.
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Speaker 2: Back from her acting career and be able to focus
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Speaker 2: on motherhood. And that's pretty damn cool because I know
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Speaker 2: when I was juggling in I had my first Eva
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Speaker 2: at twenty nine and my second Annalise at thirty three,
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Speaker 2: I was in the throes of work, and through most
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Speaker 2: of their formative years, I was working way more than
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Speaker 2: I wish I had to.
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Speaker 3: So I think it's cool and they'll.
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Speaker 1: Give her credit. I mean, we know her name, We've
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Speaker 1: never forgotten Cameron Dia as we never will. But she
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Speaker 1: was not on our screens for a good chunk of time,
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Speaker 1: and apparently that was intentional and good for her. She
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Speaker 1: took this time out to spend those times with the kid.
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Speaker 1: How old is the oldest?
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Speaker 2: Six six, So she's fifty three, so you can do
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Speaker 2: the math. Yes, she was forty seven when she had
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Speaker 2: her first child.
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Speaker 1: Have you seen anything out there? I haven't done a
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Speaker 1: deep enough dive in which some are trying to anything,
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Speaker 1: I mean, beyond the regular stuff you can expect online
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Speaker 1: in each kind of way criticizing or trying to question
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Speaker 1: her for having a child at fifty three.
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Speaker 3: I haven't seen it yet.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure if you go on to Reddit or you
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Speaker 2: go on to X or you go on to whatever.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure you can find someone throwing stones, not living
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Speaker 2: in their glasshouse. But I liked some of what Cameron
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Speaker 2: had to say about She gave a few quotes when
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Speaker 2: she had her son at fifty one. She said, when
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Speaker 2: you're my age and you decide to do it, it's
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Speaker 2: a real choice.
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Speaker 3: You really have to work hard for it.
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Speaker 2: The only pressure for me is like I have to
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Speaker 2: live to be one hundred and seven, you know, so
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Speaker 2: no pressure. So she joked about the fact that she
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Speaker 2: understands that she won't maybe be there for grandchildren in
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Speaker 2: the way that a lot of other women who had
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Speaker 2: children younger might, and.
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Speaker 3: That's that's a choice.
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Speaker 2: But I think it's a beautiful and amazing story to
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Speaker 2: be able that technology exists, that there is a way
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Speaker 2: for women who are older, who were able to focus
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Speaker 2: on themselves maybe early on in their lives, to now
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Speaker 2: be able to spend the second part of their lives
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Speaker 2: focusing on children.
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Speaker 3: That's kind of cool.
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Speaker 1: No, I never thought about it that way. What an
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Speaker 1: interesting potential motivator and keeping people to live longer if
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Speaker 1: you're having kids at a later age, what a motivation
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Speaker 1: at fifty three to stick around as long as possible
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Speaker 1: for this new baby.
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Speaker 3: Ain't that true?
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Speaker 2: And there are articles written about that that they're actually
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Speaker 2: seeing improved health benefits for women who have children later.
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Speaker 2: However they do it, whether by the way, whether it's
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Speaker 2: adopting children, whether it's having a surrogate, whether it's having
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Speaker 2: a donor eg, whether it's having giving birth to your
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Speaker 2: by yourself on your own, regardless if you choose to
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Speaker 2: become a parent fifty plus, they actually say there are
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Speaker 2: benefits to the parents men and women both because of
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Speaker 2: what you just said. You have a reason, and it's intentional.
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Speaker 2: This isn't a whoopsie, This isn't a oh no, what
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Speaker 2: am I supposed to do now that I'm pregnant. This
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Speaker 2: is a joyful, intentional, surpisful journey where you are actually
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Speaker 2: focused on being the best parent you can, which actually
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Speaker 2: has real benefits to you physically, emotionally, mentally as an
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Speaker 2: adult growing older.
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Speaker 1: And also when you're sixty you got to run around
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Speaker 1: the playground. That might keep you active as well. Well.
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Speaker 3: It does, it does. I think it's pretty cool, Like
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Speaker 3: I really hadn't thought about this. Listen to this statistic.
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Speaker 2: The number of women having their first baby when they
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Speaker 2: are over thirty five has increased more than two hundred
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Speaker 2: and seventy percent over the last four decades. That's huge, huge, Yes,
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Speaker 2: And look, the point being I did mention it does
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Speaker 2: tend to happen. You do tend to see these types
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Speaker 2: of pregnancies and deliveries with women and people who have
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Speaker 2: who have money. Basically, bottom line, it can cost as
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Speaker 2: much as twenty five thousand to thirty thousand dollars just
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Speaker 2: for an egg donation for a single IVF attempt. That
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Speaker 2: doesn't include if you have to hire a sarrogate, if
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Speaker 2: you you know there you're talking. It could be six
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Speaker 2: figures to actually have a baby at a certain age,
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Speaker 2: after a certain age.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we don't know how she did this, but the
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Speaker 1: options Okay, she could have been an anomaly, gotten pregnant,
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Speaker 1: had a baby. That's not the case. We're suggesting suggesting
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Speaker 1: she could have frozen an egg. I'm really walking through it.
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Speaker 1: Camerd or what's someone that could have done. She could
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Speaker 1: have frozen an egg earlier. That egg could have been
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Speaker 1: implanted in her correct and she carried. Yes, that's an option, yes,
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Speaker 1: or that same egg could have been.
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Speaker 2: Implanted in a surrogate or most likely, most likely she
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Speaker 2: had a donor EG. So she had a donor EG
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Speaker 2: from a woman. And look, I have actually had several
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Speaker 2: friends go through this process in their late forties early fifties,
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Speaker 2: and it really kind of is an interesting thing, at
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Speaker 2: least the way they've described it to me. You actually
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Speaker 2: go through a book of baby pictures. They don't a
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Speaker 2: lot of these women who donate their eggs don't want
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Speaker 2: obviously their faces and their images and their names to
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Speaker 2: be known for all parties included. So they actually have
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Speaker 2: a baby picture of these women who are donor egg
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Speaker 2: who give eggs, and you can see someone who looks
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Speaker 2: a lot like you, and then you would in a
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Speaker 2: lot of the cases, at least in my friends cases,
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Speaker 2: you have then their husband's sperm. It fertilizes that donor
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Speaker 2: egg with the baby picture that probably looks a lot
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Speaker 2: like you, and you end up getting a baby and
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Speaker 2: you get to know all of this woman's health history, etc.
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Speaker 3: That looks like a version of you and your husband.
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Speaker 1: To your point, yes, that's intentional.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: Go through that process. You have so many times to
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Speaker 1: say no and I refuse, and the checks you have
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Speaker 1: to write and the contracts you have to sign. That
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Speaker 1: is intentional and you for sure want that child. That's
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Speaker 1: that's a big deal.
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Speaker 2: It is a big deal. And look, you know I
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Speaker 2: have just said, well, I guess I'll wait. I guess
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Speaker 2: I'll wait for grandbabies, I'm probably will have to wait. Well,
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Speaker 2: I hope at least five to ten years. But I
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Speaker 2: think about my grandmother and my mother. My grandmother was
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Speaker 2: made a grandmother at forty. That's like, it's so interesting
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Speaker 2: to me because I've had the opposite experience from my
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Speaker 2: family's perspective that my grandma had my dad at the
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Speaker 2: age of twenty one, and my dad and my mom
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Speaker 2: had me at the age of nineteen. So by the
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Speaker 2: time she was forty, I was born. But I had
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Speaker 2: my grandparents. I had all four grandparents up until a
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Speaker 2: few years ago.
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Speaker 3: That's a beautiful thing.
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Speaker 2: But I also think if you're a woman and you're
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Speaker 2: at a place in your life where you want to
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Speaker 2: be a mom, it's just so cool that you can.
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Speaker 2: So when we come back, we're going to talk about
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Speaker 2: this long list of celebrities who had babies or brought
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Speaker 2: children into their lives after the age of fifty. It's
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Speaker 2: pretty remarkable. And we're going to talk about the oldest
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Speaker 2: woman to ever give birth. I'm gonna have you guess, babe,
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Speaker 2: how old do.
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Speaker 3: You think she was?
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Speaker 1: Fifty four?
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Speaker 3: We'll have the answer when we come back.
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Speaker 1: We continue here on Amy and TJ. Ropes hit me
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Speaker 1: with a low Q and a quiz right before. So,
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Speaker 1: I'm very curious to know you said the oldest woman
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Speaker 1: to ever give birth for what some reason knew?
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Speaker 3: What year was it?
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Speaker 2: Twenty nineteen? Okay, sixty four, Okay, you're wrong, seventy four Okay.
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Speaker 2: So in September of twenty nineteen, Aramadi Mangama. She was
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Speaker 2: from India. She holds the world record for the oldest
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Speaker 2: woman to give birth. She delivered twin girls. She had
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Speaker 2: them implanted via IVF, but she gave She successfully grew
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Speaker 2: them in her womb at the age of seventy four
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Speaker 2: and gave birth to them and they're doing great.
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Speaker 3: Donor x IVF. She wanted to have.
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Speaker 1: A baby, she wanted dad.
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Speaker 3: I don't know about the dad.
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Speaker 2: I just know she delivered twin girls in September of
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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 3: Well a donor EG.
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Speaker 1: But yes, she gave birthday the donor egg, but sperm
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Speaker 1: from somebody she wanted.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know the details of her personal life,
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Speaker 2: but she could also have gotten a sperm donor.
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Speaker 3: The point being is she.
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Speaker 2: Was able to successfully carry and give birth to children
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Speaker 2: at the age of seventy four.
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Speaker 1: Not advisable, but it's.
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Speaker 2: Doable, and it's just you know, that's a miracle. But
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Speaker 2: I started looking at the number of celebrities who had
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Speaker 2: babies after fifty.
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Speaker 3: We remember the ones who were close to it.
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Speaker 2: I think these are all Halle Berry was forty seven,
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Speaker 2: Laura Lenny was forty nine, Kelly Preston was forty eight.
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Speaker 2: Those were all, I think, pretty widely celebrated. But Janna Jackson,
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Speaker 2: I remember she surprised everyone in twenty seventeen gave birth
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Speaker 2: to her first child at the age of fifty, son
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Speaker 2: Isa ALMANA.
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Speaker 1: That's remarkable. I mean I don't remember that necessarily, what
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Speaker 1: I do, I don't. I mean, what's the I mean,
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Speaker 1: what were we supposed to say? I mean, it's anything
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Speaker 1: short of celebrating it is nothing to be said, right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Naomi Campbell was fifty when she announced in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty one that she had given birth to her daughter,
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Speaker 2: Annie Leibovitz.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know this, gave.
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Speaker 2: Birth to her first child at fifty two, and then
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Speaker 2: had twin girls via assarrogate four years later. So she
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Speaker 2: had twin girls at fifty six. She used asaragate. But
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Speaker 2: these are famous, powerful, wonderful women Hotocopy. Even here's someone
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Speaker 2: after fifty. She adopted her daughters, Hailey, Joy and Hope
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Speaker 2: Catherine at fifty two and at fifty six, so it's
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Speaker 2: just about she started a family at the age of
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Speaker 2: fifty two. I think a lot of women would think
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Speaker 2: there wasn't an opportunity to do so. But Bridget Nielsen,
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Speaker 2: you remember her fifty four years old, gave birth to
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Speaker 2: her fifth child in twenty eighteen, So it just there
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Speaker 2: are more women than I realized. At fifty four, gave
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Speaker 2: birth to her fifth child, Kristin Davis from Sex and
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Speaker 2: the City. She adopted her son at age fifty three,
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Speaker 2: that she doesn't regret a moment for waiting until later
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Speaker 2: to have her child, and I just think it's cool.
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Speaker 2: I think it's awesome for women and for families who
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Speaker 2: have the means and the time and the desire to
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Speaker 2: be able to show a child love, bring them up,
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Speaker 2: and it's not this horror story that we hear about
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Speaker 2: that these children are neglected or that their parents die earlier,
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Speaker 2: that somehow this is a bad or a negative thing.
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Speaker 2: In fact, I'm seeing nothing but positivity, and it's just
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Speaker 2: cool to see Cameron Diaz and her husband Benji be
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Speaker 2: able to grow their family even at the ages that
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Speaker 2: they are.
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Speaker 1: I mean, have means in time, but it's I think
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Speaker 1: I just love the story that it's giving folks options
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Speaker 1: and it's showing again it doesn't have to go a
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Speaker 1: certain way, or a family doesn't have to look a
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Speaker 1: certain way, the parents don't have to be a certain age,
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Speaker 1: and we don't even have to have sex to.
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Speaker 3: Have this baby.
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Speaker 1: No, I mean, all those things are just technology is
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Speaker 1: catching up. People are catching up, and I just think
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Speaker 1: it's a nice drop in the bucket of an evolving
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Speaker 1: family in America. I love that she said as much
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Speaker 1: as she had about it, but I love this firm.
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Speaker 3: Yes, congratulations for them.
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Speaker 1: I should say, I'm just as more familiar with her,
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Speaker 1: so I'm sorry, yes, but I'm happy for them.
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Speaker 2: Cameron Diaz, Benji Madden, congratulation on baby number three, and hey,
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Speaker 2: this guy's the limit whenever, whenever you're ready. It seems
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Speaker 2: like science is waiting for you. So this is a
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Speaker 2: cool story just wanted to share with you and without everyone.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to us. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside TJ.
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Speaker 3: Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.