Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She’s engaged to the same man who’s stood by her side for over a decade, and, with Forbes estimating her net worth as of a year ago at $125,000, she’s wealthier than at least two-thirds of her peers. So when the socialist superstar teased a major personal update on her Instagram, suffice it to say that many of us were surprised that Ocasio-Cortez announced not that she was pregnant, but that she was planning to be, maybe, someday in the future.
“Usually, I keep my private life quite private, but I have made the decision to start freezing my eggs, and I want to share that with anyone who is — and I want to share this because I was weighing it for a very long time, and I think that, you know, I was saving for it for a very long time, and there just isn’t a ton out there, I feel, and sometimes it can feel very daunting,” said the 36 year-old. “I think we need to show more depictions of women having full lives in every context and every choice.”
