“I started to experience extreme vertigo and dizziness,” Alex shared. “I would be in interviews about to pass out. I would pass out in the shower. I was so f–king emotional all the time and it was frustrating.”
And by the time her cycle regulated, the physical symptoms had worsened. “Four to five months went by and I ended up getting my period back,” she said, “but my cramps were beyond excruciating to the point that my doctor considered that I may have PCOS.”
Then there was something new she considered: Maybe it wasn’t the right time to try to have a baby.
“As s–tty as all of this was, that things weren’t exactly going according to plan or our timeline about getting pregnant, my career on the other hand, had never been busier and never been bigger,” Alex—whose upcoming Call Her Alex docuseries follows her first podcast tour— explained. “Getting pregnant inevitably would mean I had to slow down.”
“I don’t know exactly when it hit me, but in the moments where I was being really honest with myself, which took a minute,” she said, “but I eventually realized I wasn’t ready.”
