Planning ahead. The Bachelor winner Whitney Bischoff revealed in a new interview with Good Morning America on Thursday, March 26, that she froze her eggs prior to meeting fiancé Chris Soules.
The Chicago-based fertility nurse, now 29, underwent the procedure at the age of 27. "I just felt it would be silly for me not to take the opportunity when it was handed to me," she explained on GMA.
Bischoff made the decision two years before she met and fell in love with Soules, the star of the 19th season of The Bachelor. The Kentucky native explained that her job influenced her choice.
"We're seeing it every single day first-hand and you hear a patient say, 'I just wish I would've known. I wish someone would've told me,'" Bischoff said. "It's an insurance policy. The hope is that you don't have to use them, you know? That's the whole point of an insurance policy."
Soules, 33, proposed to Bischoff on the season finale of The Bachelor, which aired earlier this month, and she joked soon after about the adorable babies the two would make. In an earlier episode, she took Soules to her job and he helped her go through the early steps of setting up IVF for a patient.
"I mean, I think it's just kind of expected because this is what I do for work," Bischoff told GMA of freezing her eggs. "I would tell any woman to do it. I feel like by just taking the lead and taking control of my body and my fertility, it checked off a lot of boxes for me."
Bischoff is set to wed Soules in the near future and gushed to GMA about her love.
"I just was smitten over him," she said of getting to know the Iowan farmer. "I mean, I think that he just was a very genuine, sweet guy that America fell in love with. And then I did too. I'm a lucky lady."
