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- Most women have heard of freezing their eggs for security in the future.
- However, the procedure is made to seem seamless and without complications.
- Singer Kesha shares how she almost died after freezing her eggs in January.
The 36-year-old 'Blah Blah Blah singer Kesha spent days receiving hospital treatment due to complications linked to egg freezing, and, at one stage, the fertility procedure left her too weak to perform.
In a cover interview for Self magazine, she said, "I almost died in January." She froze her eggs last year, and some weeks after, on New Year's Eve, she performed in the Bahamas when she discovered she was too weak to walk.
She went to hospital, where doctors discovered she had developed a severe and rare complication linked to her fertility procedure, which they attributed partly to her weakened immune system.
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Kesha was transferred to a hospital in Miami, where she spent nine days. She added, "I finally feel recovered, but it took a couple months. It was horrifying."
The magazine added Kesha wanted to freeze her eggs as "she wanted more time to think through what it meant to have a child in the world today without feeling rushed or distracted". She also told the title she doesn't want to be seen as telling people what to do about getting pregnant. Kesha added, "I just was taking my reproductive health into my own hands. And I stand by everyone doing that and (honouring) your body. Everyone probably has some semblance of feeling like you share what you're going through, and, at the same time, it's almost inviting people to have an opinion about it. I don't have that perfectly mapped out."
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Kesha – who recently told Rolling Stone she was secretly engaged at one point but had called it off – also told Self she has a partner but declined to name him. But she did admit to scaring him when she broke out in head-to-toe hives.
She said, "Sometimes, he has to have a face cream intervention and take them away from me. The other weekend, I thought it would be a good idea – this was not a good idea – to cover my body in castor oil and do a mask."
In 2022, the American Music Award nominee told her Instagram followers (in a since-deleted post) she doesn't define herself as gay or straight but is "open to it all."
