Although being a mother wasn’t a priority for Anna Marie Tendler at the time of her marriage to John Mulaney, she appears to be rethinking her decision. On February 28, the artist surprised fans by taking to Instagram with a selfie that showed her giving herself an injection, apparently with a fertility drug. “Eggs, Over Easy,” she captioned it. Per Southern California Reproductive Center, women undergoing fertility treatments inject themselves with medication that stimulates the ovaries to produce multiple eggs. The injections are administered in the abdomen, as shown in Tendler’s photo. Once the eggs are mature, doctors remove them in an outpatient procedure, and the eggs are then either used for in vitro fertilization right away, or frozen for a later IVF attempt. Freezing eggs can be a good option for women in their mid-30s or older, who want to keep their options open before their eggs become too old to be viable, via Yale Medicine. Tendler will turn 37 this summer.
In a January 2022 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Tendler explained that while she’d “always held partnership above having kids,” she still planned to freeze her eggs. “There were things I never even thought about before because that was just a closed door,” she said. “So now that it feels like not as much of a closed door, it’s something that I ruminate on a lot.” Perhaps Tendler is taking the first steps towards a new chapter of her life.
