Ophélie Winter, revealed by the tube “God gave me faith” in 1995, confided on the set of the program “On est en direct” (France 2) to have frozen her oocytes to give herself the chance to be mom. A controversial subject in France.
- By freezing her oocytes, the woman can suspend her biological clock: the ability to procreate with frozen oocytes will be (almost) the same as with non-frozen oocytes.
- If there is no age limit strictly speaking, it is advisable to do it before the age of 35 because the ovarian reserve and the quality of the oocyte decrease with age.
Invited to Laurent Ruquier on Saturday May 29, singer and actress Ophélie Winter confided in the freezing of her oocytes. Like Paris Hilton or Laurie Pester before her, Ophélie Winter explained that she still gave herself a chance to be a mother, despite her 47 years.
“I’ve frozen eggs all over the world”
“I have frozen eggs all over the world”, said the star on the television set, specifying having for example have “eggs in Spain”. And joking: “We can make a football team with everything I’ve frozen. Even when I’m dead, we can make little Winters”.
In France, the freezing of oocytes is illegal, except for serious pathology. Last February, the Senate amputated at second reading the bioethics bill from access to this oocyte self-storage without medical reason.
The case of Laurie Pester
In October 2018, the singer Laurie Pester, whose endometriosis was not considered a pathology serious enough to allow her to freeze her oocytes in France, had sent in the HuffPost a militant letter in this sense to the President of the Republic. Emanuel Macron.
“There are thousands of us who nourish this ardent hope of giving life. I want to make myself useful, for them, for me, for my country… It is time for the government to hear our call and extricate us from this dilemma that compelled to break the law to give life, because that is what it is all about”, argued the singer.
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