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Dax Shepard raises eyebrows with ‘dystopian’ supply to pay for daughter, 11, to freeze eggs

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US actor and podcast host Dax Shepard has shared he supplied to pay to freeze his daughter’s eggs (Image: Getty)

Dax Shepard has shared that he supplied to pay to have his 11-year-old daughter’s eggs frozen when she’s 18 after a dialog about changing into a mum.

The actor and comic, 51, shares Delta, 11, and 12-year-old Lincoln with No person Desires This star spouse Kristen Bell, 45.

‘Delty was saying how she will be able to’t wait to have a child,’ he revealed on an episode of his podcast, Armchair Knowledgeable, which dropped on January 5, including: ‘She’s gonna actually do it effectively.’

He additionally stated that when his daughter first raised the subject, he made certain to be non-judgemental.

‘She’s saying she needs to have a child, and I stated, “When do you suppose you’ll have your first baby? While you flip 18?” I need to be supportive of no matter.

‘I don’t need to plant any seeds that I’d be judgmental or no matter.’

Shepard stated that 11-year-old Delta ‘can’t wait to have a child’ (Image: Instagram)

Shepard then defined that his youngest daughter advised him she didn’t need to turn out to be a guardian then, and he guessed that she’d need to have a baby afterward, between the ages of 35 and 45.

That was when he revealed he’d supplied to help her, if she welcomed it, including: ‘I stated, “I feel, If you wish to, we’ll freeze your eggs whenever you’re 18. I’ll pay so that you can get your eggs frozen so that you don’t have to consider that.”’

After discussing along with his co-host Monica Padman, who beforehand had her personal eggs frozen, with them agreeing ‘the sooner the higher’ for the egg retrieval course of, he continued: ‘Look, acknowledging our luck and privilege, clearly, this isn’t an possibility for most individuals. However I feel given the place it’s, the trajectory, it might take advantage of sense. 

‘I feel they’re going to be wrestling with the identical factor each girl is. You’re gonna need to do your profession.’

However he additionally revealed that Delta felt his proposed age rage of changing into a mom was ‘too previous’.

He shares Delta and her sister Lincoln, 12, with Netflix actress spouse Kristen Bell (Image: Instagram)

Shepard stated: ‘Once more, she’s 11 in order that most likely looks like 80. She’s pondering mid-20s.’

Followers on-line have been slightly greatly surprised by the discuss, with many shocked they have been already having it.

‘Perhaps that dialog may’ve waited until she’s 18?’ requested Deja Marie on Instagram, whereas Angela Michaels agreed that her 12-year-old daughter ‘doesn’t need her dad discussing her eggs in the intervening time lol’.

Michelle Marino admitted: ‘I’m a fan of his. However that is very unusual. I might have been mortified if my dad stated that to me.’

Others branded it ‘bizarre’ and ‘dystopian’ and Shepard ‘a strolling crimson flag with a microphone’ whereas Stacey Kliegel chimed in: ‘Perhaps let her expertise having a interval first.’

Nevertheless, many have been able to reward Shepard for ‘pondering out of the field’ and about his daughter’s future.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 14: (L-R) Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell attends the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
The couple is thought for having a really frank parenting and relationship type (Image: Getty)

‘Actually, I want my father gifted me this. It’s costly,’ identified Tina as Caroline Lunny insisted ‘that is the very best present we may give our daughters’ and others recommended extra folks must be ‘encouraging’ this.

Shepard and Bell are recognized for being very open about their household and relationship – in addition to considerably unconventional – with the Frozen star just lately revealing she ‘didn’t care’ if her husband slept with different ladies as ‘We’re monkeys, we’re each drawn to different folks. We’re married – we’re not useless’.

Music icon Cher was additionally a visitor firstly of 2026 on the podcast and slightly brutally noticed that Shepard ‘should have one thing that I don’t see’ to be married to her former co-star Bell.

She additionally referred to as Bell ‘the higher half’ of their partnership, with the couple engaged whereas the 2 ladies have been taking pictures 2010 musical film Burlesque collectively.

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