Jessica Williams Reveals She Recently Froze Her Eggs (Exclusive)
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- Jessica Williams froze her eggs but isn’t ready to have a family yet
- The comedian and actress called the whole process of freezing her eggs “gross” and “pretty intense”
- She went on to say that she’s not sure she wants to have kids, but froze her eggs as insurance
Jessica Williams just froze her eggs, but she isn’t thinking about growing a family anytime soon.
The Shrinking star caught up with PEOPLE ahead of the 2025 Emmys and shared that there’s one storyline for her character Gaby Evans that she’d like to pull from a real-life experience.
“I froze my eggs for the third time a couple of days ago, and maybe that for Gaby. Maybe there’s something around there,” Williams tells PEOPLE.
“It’s pretty gross and it’s pretty intense, but it’s normal,” Williams continues. “Freezing your eggs is not having a baby, but you do inject yourself with hormones and you do get cravings, and you do get really bloated.”
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The comedian and actress says that just because she froze her eggs doesn’t mean she wants to add a little one to her life right now.
“It’s funny, I was doing it, and it’s so much work freezing your eggs. I was like, ‘I still don’t know if I want kids. I still don’t know, but I’m just doing this just for insurance,’ ” Williams explains. “It didn’t give me baby fever doing it.”
“It gave me baby frostbite,” she quips. “It was insane. I am like, ‘No, no,'”
Williams goes on to say that she’s happy being an aunt and caring for her dog, joking that the only thing she’d like about being pregnant is the fashion.
“I’m 36, so I think that might mean babies are not for me. I’m at this age. It might just mean they’re not for me,” she says.
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The actress stars in Shrinking alongside Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, Christa Miller, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, Luke Tennie and Ted McGinley.
The show — which follows grieving therapist Jimmy (Segel) and his colleagues — earned a total of seven Emmy nominations this year, including Williams’ nod, an Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series nomination for Segel, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nods for Ford and Urie, and an Outstanding Comedy Series nomination.
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