Stewart’s ringing biological clock

Alexis Stewart really, really wants to have a baby, says James Servin in Page Six Magazine. Now that Martha Stewart’s ambitious daughter is 42, she realizes she’s nearly out of time. “We get distracted because we have jobs,” she says of career women like herself, “and we have other things to do.” Now that she’s decided to procreate, Stewart’s leaving nothing to chance. For the last 14 months, she’s spent $28,000 a month on in vitro fertilization treatments. The process involves monthly embryo transfers, sperm implantation, and daily injections of fertility drugs. The sperm donor, she says, is “anonymous but not random.” She was once married, and broke up with her last boyfriend, whom she refers to only as “Guy,” in July. “I loved him and I had fun, but marriage doesn’t have this giant meaning for me. I’m not saying ‘no’ to love, but I’m going to try and have children with or without it.” Doctors have told her that her eggs are “dry and crusty,” so she knows there’s a chance the in vitro process may not work. “I will [continue] until the doctor says, ‘Forget it,’” she says. “ But at the moment, I can only think about this option.”

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