Michaela Coel has said she is planning to have her eggs frozen in case she wants to have children in later life.
The I May Destroy You writer and star told GQ magazine that she sometimes worries she does not think about having children “as much as I should”.
In conversation with US
Actor and musician Donald Glover for the
British edition of the magazine’s upcoming Heroes issue, Michaela also said she had considered adoption.She said: “Sometimes I worry that I don’t (think about having children) as much as I should, which is why, just in case I ever think about this more, I’m freezing my eggs, just in case.
“I’ve never been too thinky about bearing my own children through my vagina. I have thought about adopting. That I’ve thought of more than vaginal children.
“But in case I changed my mind, because I don’t know, they say it happens… Like, you reach this point where suddenly you really want babies and all you can think about is you want a baby and the clock’s ticking.
“I don’t ever have that. I’ve never felt it. I’ve never even said, ‘I want to have a baby,’ ever in my life. So I’m freezing them in case that hits me later.” View this post on InstagramIn 2020, it doesn’t get bigger than this: the two most influential black voices working in television today, on Zoom and speaking freely 💥 From ego death and mutant subcultures to lockdown Bibles and small-screen medicine, via family planning, interracial sex, the search for identity, empathy and context and much, much more. They spoke. We listened. And here, in full, is one of the most extraordinary conversations we have ever heard. #MichaelaCoel speaks to #DonaldGlover for the first of our November cover stories. LINK IN BIO to read. Photography by @benwellerstudio. Styling by @luke_jefferson_day. Hair by @am_stagrams. Make-up by @michelle.leandra.makeup. Photography Direction by @robinkeygq. Creative Direction @paulsolomonsgq. #SubscribersEdition // #GQ Editor @dylanjonesgqA post shared by British GQ (@britishgq) on Sep 29, 2020 at 12:00am PDTDuring the interview, Michaela also spoke about how she is taking time out from work, following the huge success of I May Destroy You earlier this year, but that hasn’t stopped her from thinking of her next project.
She added: “I’m asked this question and I have an answer that I give, which is, ‘I’m taking a break.’ However, it’s been a while now.
“And even though I’m still technically working, because, hey, we’re doing press, there is, like, there’s a tiny seed far away. I’m just on the edges. I don’t know. I have something in my womb.
“I sometimes equate my show with children. So the inception might be beginning. There’s something, but for now, I’m trying to just live for a minute. I think I’ve given myself September to just live.”
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