Hetal Patel, a successful, career-focused 36-year-old based in Manhattan, New York, has always wanted a family of her own, but as she grew older and relationships fizzled out, worried about bringing a child into the world with the "wrong" person.

Wanting to protect both her chance of raising a child with a compatible partner and her right to decide if and when to become mother to a biological child at all, she opted to freeze her eggs. But it was one slight detail— Jennifer Aniston’s viral admission that she regretted not doing the same thing—that spurred her to act.

“Jennifer Aniston’s interview played a real part in motivating me to consider egg freezing,” Patel told Newsweek . “Watching her speak about her journey made me understand something I had been avoiding for a long time.

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