Jennette McCurdy is recalling a daunting expertise. On the newest episode of Lemonada Media’s Onerous Emotions With Jennette McCurdy podcast, the 31-year-old actress reveals she had a being pregnant scare whereas struggling to deal with her grownup zits.
It started when McCurdy started taking the bottom dose of Accutane, an zits treatment that has been proven to trigger start defects in people, in accordance with Mayo Clinic.
“You have to take a test to show that you know all the risks involved and you have to sign a contract saying that under no circumstances will you get pregnant while taking Accutane,” McCurdy mentioned. “… You have to be on two forms of contraception. You have to go and you have to get bloodwork once a month. You have to go to your dermatologist after getting your bloodwork every month just to check up.”
Whereas she was on the treatment, McCurdy referred to as to cancel her dermatologist appointment. The receptionist referred to as McCurdy again, telling the I am Glad My Mother Died writer that the physician would love her to maintain her appointment. McCurdy refused however modified her tune upon getting a second name again from the physician’s workplace.
“The receptionist sounds stressed out. She goes, ‘Hey, so I spoke to the dermatologist again and she says you really need to come in.’ I’m like, ‘What the f**k?’… I go, ‘Can I just come in next week?'” McCurdy recalled. “She goes, ‘No, because we got the results of your bloodwork and there’s a pregnancy.'”
The reveal left McCurdy “shocked” and feeling as if “I got the wind knocked out of me.”
“My head was spinning. I was so dizzy. I involuntarily sat on the edge of my bed. My body just fell onto the edge of my bed and I was like, ‘What?’ I got a cottonmouth,” she mentioned. “Even now, repeating it, my heart is pounding. Oh my God. It was so terrifying.”
McCurdy started “recounting recent sexual activities” and questioned, “How is this possible? How could this be? What happened? What wasn’t working? How did this happen?”
McCurdy agreed to come back to her appointment and ordered a automobile to take her there.
“I’m in the backseat of an Uber. I’m dizzy the entire way, feeling like I’m going to pass out or throw up or both,” she mentioned. “Awful. Terrible.”
When she arrived on the workplace, McCurdy was instantly taken again and requested, “So is there a chance you could be pregnant?”
“I’m like, ‘What? You said I was pregnant. You said there was a pregnancy. What do you mean is there a chance? It sounds like you know there’s not just a chance, that there’s a certainty. You called me here, hun. You said I was pregnant,'” McCurdy recalled. “She’s like, ‘Well sometimes there can be false pregnancies that come up on these because of your hormone levels because of the medication’… I’m like, ‘What? Why would you not say that this was not a certain thing right off the bat?'”
“Instantly I feel a little flicker of hope, but I don’t want to get my hopes up,” she continued. “She’s like, ‘We want to send you to get another blood work panel right away to clarify whether or not there’s a pregnancy and then we can go from there.'”
McCurdy mentioned she was “terrified” on the prospect however was given excellent news after getting her blood work carried out.
“I am not pregnant, and it is fine,” she mentioned of her discovery on the time. “But that experience was so terrifying that I was like, ‘I’ve got to get off this s**t. This is not for me.’ That was years ago.”
On a earlier episode of her podcast, McCurdy revealed why she was freezing her eggs, regardless of not eager to have youngsters.
“I do not feel in any way, shape, or form like I want kids. I cannot imagine a world in which someday I want kids. I am also open to my mind changing. I have changed a lot as a person in my years so far and I hope to continue changing,” she mentioned. “What I don’t want to happen is for me to turn 40 and realize, ‘F**k, I want kids now,’ and I don’t have enough eggs to make it happen.”
“No part of me feels motivated to freeze my eggs when I don’t think I want to be a mom, but what if someday I change my mind?… I am trying to bet on my future self wanting a thing that my current self can’t imagine wanting, versus just not doing it and risking that someday I might want it and not be able to do it then — and the regret,” McCurdy added. “I am trying to weigh these options and it’s quite complex.”
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