What, she can't have kids the "normal" way? I'm sure this is just a political ploy to make her feel "special".Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she’s freezing her eggs
Ocasio-Cortez, 36, posted a series of videos on social media in which she said this is a decision she made to "feel more in control of my life."
Author of the article:Washington Post
Washington Post
Perry Stein, The Washington Post
Published Aug 10, 2026 • 2 minute read
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrates New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's victory during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York on November 4, 2025. Photo by ANGELA WEISS /AFP via Getty Images
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) made a public video announcement over the weekend about a private matter: The congresswoman is freezing her eggs.
Ocasio-Cortez, 36, posted a series of videos on social media in which she said this is a decision she made to “feel more in control of my life.” She said she had been weighing the decision and saving up for the pricey fertility procedure, which often isn’t covered by insurance, for a long time.
The congresswoman said she was going public with her decision against the backdrop of steps by the Trump administration to curtail abortion access and some forms of reproductive care across the country. It also comes amid speculation that she could seek higher office. She said that she was making the egg-freezing decision in a “privileged position” and said that, unlike men, women applying for jobs or running for office face intense scrutiny about when, or if, they will have children.
“I think it’s important for us as leaders to have these conversations and share these processes, especially for working women across the country, and normalize them,” Ocasio-Cortez said on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday morning.
Egg freezing is an increasingly popular procedure in which a woman’s eggs are extracted from her body, frozen and then stored. Those eggs can later be fertilized. The fertilized eggs then grow, and when the embryos are ready, they are transferred into the uterus in the hope that the woman becomes pregnant, according to UCLA Health.
Women opt to have the procedure for many reasons, including to preserve their eggs and reproductive ability if they are undergoing chemotherapy or other medical treatments that could affect their fertility.
But many healthy women who are not ready to have children during their biologically prime reproductive years also use the process.
A 2025 UCLA study found that between 2014 and 2021, there was a sharp increase in the number of planned elective egg-freezing cycles. In that period, women began freezing their eggs at younger ages, with the average age dropping from 36 years in 2014 to 34.9 in 2021.
The study also landed on the surprising finding that only a small number of women – 5.7 percent who froze their eggs between 2014 and 2016 – returned to use their eggs in the next five to seven years.
In her videos, Ocasio-Cortez showed viewers the array of medications she is required to self-administer for the process.
The medication process typically lasts 10 to 12 days, with women injecting themselves with two or three hormone medications every day, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. During that time, women will have frequent bloodwork and four to six pelvic ultrasounds.
Once the eggs have matured, a medical professional will retrieve them in a 20-to-30-minute ultrasound-guided surgical procedure during which the patient is under anesthesia.
Ocasio-Cortez filmed herself injecting hormones into her abdomen, jokingly telling her viewers: “Don’t be weird about this. Even though I know all of you will be.”
When it was done, she said it “wasn’t so bad.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she’s freezing her eggs
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she’s freezing her eggs
Ocasio-Cortez, 36, posted a series of videos on social media in which she said this is a decision she made to "feel more in control of my life."
Author of the article:Washington Post
Washington Post
Perry Stein, The Washington Post
Published Aug 10, 2026 • 2 minute read
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrates New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's victory during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York on November 4, 2025. Photo by ANGELA WEISS /AFP via Getty Images
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) made a public video announcement over the weekend about a private matter: The congresswoman is freezing her eggs.
Ocasio-Cortez, 36, posted a series of videos on social media in which she said this is a decision she made to “feel more in control of my life.” She said she had been weighing the decision and saving up for the pricey fertility procedure, which often isn’t covered by insurance, for a long time.
The congresswoman said she was going public with her decision against the backdrop of steps by the Trump administration to curtail abortion access and some forms of reproductive care across the country. It also comes amid speculation that she could seek higher office. She said that she was making the egg-freezing decision in a “privileged position” and said that, unlike men, women applying for jobs or running for office face intense scrutiny about when, or if, they will have children.
“I think it’s important for us as leaders to have these conversations and share these processes, especially for working women across the country, and normalize them,” Ocasio-Cortez said on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday morning.
Egg freezing is an increasingly popular procedure in which a woman’s eggs are extracted from her body, frozen and then stored. Those eggs can later be fertilized. The fertilized eggs then grow, and when the embryos are ready, they are transferred into the uterus in the hope that the woman becomes pregnant, according to UCLA Health.
Women opt to have the procedure for many reasons, including to preserve their eggs and reproductive ability if they are undergoing chemotherapy or other medical treatments that could affect their fertility.
But many healthy women who are not ready to have children during their biologically prime reproductive years also use the process.
A 2025 UCLA study found that between 2014 and 2021, there was a sharp increase in the number of planned elective egg-freezing cycles. In that period, women began freezing their eggs at younger ages, with the average age dropping from 36 years in 2014 to 34.9 in 2021.
The study also landed on the surprising finding that only a small number of women – 5.7 percent who froze their eggs between 2014 and 2016 – returned to use their eggs in the next five to seven years.
In her videos, Ocasio-Cortez showed viewers the array of medications she is required to self-administer for the process.
The medication process typically lasts 10 to 12 days, with women injecting themselves with two or three hormone medications every day, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. During that time, women will have frequent bloodwork and four to six pelvic ultrasounds.
Once the eggs have matured, a medical professional will retrieve them in a 20-to-30-minute ultrasound-guided surgical procedure during which the patient is under anesthesia.
Ocasio-Cortez filmed herself injecting hormones into her abdomen, jokingly telling her viewers: “Don’t be weird about this. Even though I know all of you will be.”
When it was done, she said it “wasn’t so bad.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she’s freezing her eggs
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a public video announcement over the weekend: The congresswoman is freezing her eggs.
no politician should be allowed to reproduce.
...or collect interest.no politician should be allowed to reproduce.
What good are frozen eggs when the oven is too old and doesn’t work anymore?
Ive got bad news for ya honey, your womb isnt a Maytag with a lietime warranty.
Ive got bad news for ya honey, your womb isnt a Maytag with a lietime warranty.
AOC is unfit to lead the U.S.
Despite potential political aspirations, she's a poster child for economic illiteracy of Gen Z and millennial socialists
Author of the article:Betsy McCaughey
Published Aug 21, 2026 • 4 minute read
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks as United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024 in Washington, DC.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks as United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Kent Nishimura /Getty Images
Betting markets show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the frontrunner to snag the 2028 Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
But AOC refuses to pay back her student loans despite earning $173,000 a year as a member of Congress. That’s a red flag that she’s fiscally irresponsible and holds taxpayers in utter disdain.
Her supporters claim her college loans make her relatable. One fan posts on X, “I need a president that’s still drowning in student loan debt with me.” Democratic activist David Hogg posts, “this is what happens when we elect normal people to Congress who have student debt and don’t engage in insider trading.”
Sorry: relatable to the elite but not to everybody. Households in the top fifth for earnings are three times as likely to have college debt as households in the bottom fifth of the economy. That means when doctors, lawyers and members of Congress don’t pay their college loans, working stiffs who never got to go to college — bus drivers, waiters and sanitation workers — end up paying. Totally unfair.
Voters could soon elect a freeloader in chief to the nation’s highest office. If that happens, hold onto your wallet. And prepare for financial calamity.
AOC no Marxist scholar
Political analyst Doug Schoen warned that AOC “carries massive ideological baggage.” Sorry, that dignifies what’s between her ears. She’s hardly a Marxist scholar.
Truth is, she’s a poster child for the economic illiteracy of Gen Z and millennial socialists.
AOC currently owes between $15,000 and $19,000 in student loans. She owed $19,000 in 2019, and her latest financial filing shows that seven years later, at least $15,000 of that remains unpaid.
She’s single and has no dependents.
She’s also had a boyfriend/fiance for the last decade but refused to provide any financial information about him, though she listed him as “spouse” when it served her. News that they broke up circulated last week.
She spends $22 a pop for signature Stila Stay bright red liquid lipstick — about twice what lipstick costs at the drug store — and is praised in British Vogue for her cutting-edge fashion and “power tailoring.”
And she’s announced that she’s planning to freeze her eggs — an expensive proposition.
Can’t trust her with nation’s finances
But she can’t manage her personal finances well enough to pay back her student loans. It’s crazy to trust her with the nation’s finances.
She said in 2019, during her first year in the House, “It was literally easier for me to become the youngest woman in American history elected to Congress than it is for me to pay off my student loan debt.” When she was a bartender, that was plausible. Not anymore.
Her ongoing indebtedness is disqualifying.
Across the nation, millions of Americans have delayed marriage, childbearing and homeownership because of student loan debt. It’s a serious problem. That doesn’t mean the debts should simply be erased.
In 2021, AOC, along with Sens. Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren, pressed then-President Joe Biden to offer $50,000 loan “forgiveness” to each debtholder and blasted him for not getting it done by executive order. But the word “forgiveness” is a hoax.
When you worship, you ask the Almighty for “forgiveness.” Or you may ask a friend you’ve offended for “forgiveness.” But when a student loan borrower doesn’t pay, the debt isn’t forgiven. It’s transferred. Taxpayers get gouged. Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter to the 43 million Americans with student loans last March, reminding them that taxpayers are on the hook when loans aren’t paid.
AOC has no respect for taxpayers. That’s also why she’s outspoken against work requirements for able-bodied people on Medicaid. She wants taxpayers to fork over their earnings to pay for Medicaid coverage for couch potatoes who are able to work but refuse.
Medicaid has become a license to drop out of the workforce.
Back in 2010, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged expanding Medicaid to able-bodied adults, not just children, disabled people and pregnant women. She argued the expansion would free Americans from what she disparagingly labeled “job lock” — in short, staying in a job for the health insurance. Expanding Medicaid would let aspiring poets or artists quit the drudgery of work and find themselves. On your dime.
Fast-forward to the present: The poets and couch potatoes are having a heyday. The latest data show that almost six out of every 10 non-disabled adults on Medicaid don’t work. That’s why the Trump administration and Congress enacted a new requirement in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that healthy adults without dependents at home either work, participate in work readiness such as volunteering, or attend addiction treatment or job counselling 20 hours a week to qualify for Medicaid.
But AOC vehemently opposes this reform. On her website, she calls it a “paperwork requirement,” oblivious that getting people back into the workforce is essential to their wellbeing and to the nation. The shrinking work participation puts the nation on a course of financial failure, as too few working-age people are contributing to the nation’s productivity and paying into Social Security and Medicare to sustain those programs. But AOC couldn’t care less.
AOC’s a moocher, and she sides with the moochers.
If you want to keep what you earn, and if you want the nation to remain economically viable, elect a president who will be a responsible steward of taxpayers’ money. Don’t send an economically illiterate freeloader to the White House.
— Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt. Governor of New York State and Chairman & Founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths.
torontosun.com
Despite potential political aspirations, she's a poster child for economic illiteracy of Gen Z and millennial socialists
Author of the article:Betsy McCaughey
Published Aug 21, 2026 • 4 minute read
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks as United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024 in Washington, DC.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks as United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Kent Nishimura /Getty Images
Betting markets show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the frontrunner to snag the 2028 Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
But AOC refuses to pay back her student loans despite earning $173,000 a year as a member of Congress. That’s a red flag that she’s fiscally irresponsible and holds taxpayers in utter disdain.
Her supporters claim her college loans make her relatable. One fan posts on X, “I need a president that’s still drowning in student loan debt with me.” Democratic activist David Hogg posts, “this is what happens when we elect normal people to Congress who have student debt and don’t engage in insider trading.”
Sorry: relatable to the elite but not to everybody. Households in the top fifth for earnings are three times as likely to have college debt as households in the bottom fifth of the economy. That means when doctors, lawyers and members of Congress don’t pay their college loans, working stiffs who never got to go to college — bus drivers, waiters and sanitation workers — end up paying. Totally unfair.
Voters could soon elect a freeloader in chief to the nation’s highest office. If that happens, hold onto your wallet. And prepare for financial calamity.
AOC no Marxist scholar
Political analyst Doug Schoen warned that AOC “carries massive ideological baggage.” Sorry, that dignifies what’s between her ears. She’s hardly a Marxist scholar.
Truth is, she’s a poster child for the economic illiteracy of Gen Z and millennial socialists.
AOC currently owes between $15,000 and $19,000 in student loans. She owed $19,000 in 2019, and her latest financial filing shows that seven years later, at least $15,000 of that remains unpaid.
She’s single and has no dependents.
She’s also had a boyfriend/fiance for the last decade but refused to provide any financial information about him, though she listed him as “spouse” when it served her. News that they broke up circulated last week.
She spends $22 a pop for signature Stila Stay bright red liquid lipstick — about twice what lipstick costs at the drug store — and is praised in British Vogue for her cutting-edge fashion and “power tailoring.”
And she’s announced that she’s planning to freeze her eggs — an expensive proposition.
Can’t trust her with nation’s finances
But she can’t manage her personal finances well enough to pay back her student loans. It’s crazy to trust her with the nation’s finances.
She said in 2019, during her first year in the House, “It was literally easier for me to become the youngest woman in American history elected to Congress than it is for me to pay off my student loan debt.” When she was a bartender, that was plausible. Not anymore.
Her ongoing indebtedness is disqualifying.
Across the nation, millions of Americans have delayed marriage, childbearing and homeownership because of student loan debt. It’s a serious problem. That doesn’t mean the debts should simply be erased.
In 2021, AOC, along with Sens. Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren, pressed then-President Joe Biden to offer $50,000 loan “forgiveness” to each debtholder and blasted him for not getting it done by executive order. But the word “forgiveness” is a hoax.
When you worship, you ask the Almighty for “forgiveness.” Or you may ask a friend you’ve offended for “forgiveness.” But when a student loan borrower doesn’t pay, the debt isn’t forgiven. It’s transferred. Taxpayers get gouged. Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter to the 43 million Americans with student loans last March, reminding them that taxpayers are on the hook when loans aren’t paid.
AOC has no respect for taxpayers. That’s also why she’s outspoken against work requirements for able-bodied people on Medicaid. She wants taxpayers to fork over their earnings to pay for Medicaid coverage for couch potatoes who are able to work but refuse.
Medicaid has become a license to drop out of the workforce.
Back in 2010, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged expanding Medicaid to able-bodied adults, not just children, disabled people and pregnant women. She argued the expansion would free Americans from what she disparagingly labeled “job lock” — in short, staying in a job for the health insurance. Expanding Medicaid would let aspiring poets or artists quit the drudgery of work and find themselves. On your dime.
Fast-forward to the present: The poets and couch potatoes are having a heyday. The latest data show that almost six out of every 10 non-disabled adults on Medicaid don’t work. That’s why the Trump administration and Congress enacted a new requirement in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that healthy adults without dependents at home either work, participate in work readiness such as volunteering, or attend addiction treatment or job counselling 20 hours a week to qualify for Medicaid.
But AOC vehemently opposes this reform. On her website, she calls it a “paperwork requirement,” oblivious that getting people back into the workforce is essential to their wellbeing and to the nation. The shrinking work participation puts the nation on a course of financial failure, as too few working-age people are contributing to the nation’s productivity and paying into Social Security and Medicare to sustain those programs. But AOC couldn’t care less.
AOC’s a moocher, and she sides with the moochers.
If you want to keep what you earn, and if you want the nation to remain economically viable, elect a president who will be a responsible steward of taxpayers’ money. Don’t send an economically illiterate freeloader to the White House.
— Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt. Governor of New York State and Chairman & Founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths.
MCCAUGHEY: AOC is unfit to lead the U.S.
Betting markets show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the frontrunner to snag the 2028 Democratic nomination for U.S. president. Read more.
She's an idiot but a smart one who knows how to utilize social media. That's the ONLY thing she has going for her. Intelligence? Not so much!AOC is unfit to lead the U.S.
Despite potential political aspirations, she's a poster child for economic illiteracy of Gen Z and millennial socialists
Author of the article:Betsy McCaughey
Published Aug 21, 2026 • 4 minute read
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks as United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024 in Washington, DC.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks as United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Kent Nishimura /Getty Images
Betting markets show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the frontrunner to snag the 2028 Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
But AOC refuses to pay back her student loans despite earning $173,000 a year as a member of Congress. That’s a red flag that she’s fiscally irresponsible and holds taxpayers in utter disdain.
Her supporters claim her college loans make her relatable. One fan posts on X, “I need a president that’s still drowning in student loan debt with me.” Democratic activist David Hogg posts, “this is what happens when we elect normal people to Congress who have student debt and don’t engage in insider trading.”
Sorry: relatable to the elite but not to everybody. Households in the top fifth for earnings are three times as likely to have college debt as households in the bottom fifth of the economy. That means when doctors, lawyers and members of Congress don’t pay their college loans, working stiffs who never got to go to college — bus drivers, waiters and sanitation workers — end up paying. Totally unfair.
Voters could soon elect a freeloader in chief to the nation’s highest office. If that happens, hold onto your wallet. And prepare for financial calamity.
AOC no Marxist scholar
Political analyst Doug Schoen warned that AOC “carries massive ideological baggage.” Sorry, that dignifies what’s between her ears. She’s hardly a Marxist scholar.
Truth is, she’s a poster child for the economic illiteracy of Gen Z and millennial socialists.
AOC currently owes between $15,000 and $19,000 in student loans. She owed $19,000 in 2019, and her latest financial filing shows that seven years later, at least $15,000 of that remains unpaid.
She’s single and has no dependents.
She’s also had a boyfriend/fiance for the last decade but refused to provide any financial information about him, though she listed him as “spouse” when it served her. News that they broke up circulated last week.
She spends $22 a pop for signature Stila Stay bright red liquid lipstick — about twice what lipstick costs at the drug store — and is praised in British Vogue for her cutting-edge fashion and “power tailoring.”
And she’s announced that she’s planning to freeze her eggs — an expensive proposition.
Can’t trust her with nation’s finances
But she can’t manage her personal finances well enough to pay back her student loans. It’s crazy to trust her with the nation’s finances.
She said in 2019, during her first year in the House, “It was literally easier for me to become the youngest woman in American history elected to Congress than it is for me to pay off my student loan debt.” When she was a bartender, that was plausible. Not anymore.
Her ongoing indebtedness is disqualifying.
Across the nation, millions of Americans have delayed marriage, childbearing and homeownership because of student loan debt. It’s a serious problem. That doesn’t mean the debts should simply be erased.
In 2021, AOC, along with Sens. Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren, pressed then-President Joe Biden to offer $50,000 loan “forgiveness” to each debtholder and blasted him for not getting it done by executive order. But the word “forgiveness” is a hoax.
When you worship, you ask the Almighty for “forgiveness.” Or you may ask a friend you’ve offended for “forgiveness.” But when a student loan borrower doesn’t pay, the debt isn’t forgiven. It’s transferred. Taxpayers get gouged. Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter to the 43 million Americans with student loans last March, reminding them that taxpayers are on the hook when loans aren’t paid.
AOC has no respect for taxpayers. That’s also why she’s outspoken against work requirements for able-bodied people on Medicaid. She wants taxpayers to fork over their earnings to pay for Medicaid coverage for couch potatoes who are able to work but refuse.
Medicaid has become a license to drop out of the workforce.
Back in 2010, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged expanding Medicaid to able-bodied adults, not just children, disabled people and pregnant women. She argued the expansion would free Americans from what she disparagingly labeled “job lock” — in short, staying in a job for the health insurance. Expanding Medicaid would let aspiring poets or artists quit the drudgery of work and find themselves. On your dime.
Fast-forward to the present: The poets and couch potatoes are having a heyday. The latest data show that almost six out of every 10 non-disabled adults on Medicaid don’t work. That’s why the Trump administration and Congress enacted a new requirement in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that healthy adults without dependents at home either work, participate in work readiness such as volunteering, or attend addiction treatment or job counselling 20 hours a week to qualify for Medicaid.
But AOC vehemently opposes this reform. On her website, she calls it a “paperwork requirement,” oblivious that getting people back into the workforce is essential to their wellbeing and to the nation. The shrinking work participation puts the nation on a course of financial failure, as too few working-age people are contributing to the nation’s productivity and paying into Social Security and Medicare to sustain those programs. But AOC couldn’t care less.
AOC’s a moocher, and she sides with the moochers.
If you want to keep what you earn, and if you want the nation to remain economically viable, elect a president who will be a responsible steward of taxpayers’ money. Don’t send an economically illiterate freeloader to the White House.
— Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt. Governor of New York State and Chairman & Founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths.
MCCAUGHEY: AOC is unfit to lead the U.S.
Betting markets show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the frontrunner to snag the 2028 Democratic nomination for U.S. president. Read more.