Jennette McCurdy says she doesn't want kids but froze her eggs

People reports Jennette McCurdy said she doesn’t want children during a Jan. 7 appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast and revealed she froze her eggs in September 2025.

The author of I’m Glad My Mom Died and former Nickelodeon star spoke about her childhood and an allegedly abusive relationship with her late mother, Debra. When asked about motherhood, she replied, "I don’t want kids if that’s what you’re asking," later clarifying, "I know I don’t want kids at this point in my life. I’m also open to wanting kids at some point." She said she froze her eggs "because I don’t know if I’m going to change my mind," and noted that she and her boyfriend "have discussed it" and are "open to changing [their] minds and being in that process together."

McCurdy described first consulting a doctor who made the procedure seem "terrible" and "awful," then revisiting the idea in the summer of 2025 with a different, more comforting doctor; she called the actual process "really straightforward and simple," noting a nurse came to her home every night and that doing it alone would have been "a lot more stressful." She added she "didn’t want to change my mind 10 years from now and it be too late."

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Culture, Jennette Mccurdy, Call Her Daddy, Egg Freezing, Alex Cooper, Debra