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Paige DeSorbo Pregnant? Her Fertility Journey, Explained

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Is Paige DeSorbo pregnant?

In 2024, she and Craig Conover had a quiet and then very loud and public breakup.

They had apparently discussed things like marriage and children before the split.

The reality TV personalities have each moved on. Is Paige moving forward with her plans to become a mom?

A less-than-pleased Paige DeSorbo speaks and gestures on 'Summer House' on Bravo.
At the end of the Season 9 teaser after the ‘Summer House’ premiere, Paige DeSorbo drops a bombshell about her ex. (Image Credit: Bravo)

Paige DeSorbo has opened up about baby plans

On the May 14, 2025 episode of her Giggly Squad podcast, Paige DeSorbo and co-host Hannah Berner discussed her plans for the future.

She clarified that she was not rushing towards maternity.

But, at 32, she knows that her options will narrow in the years to come.

She has her eye on motherhood.

Paige DeSorbo on Southern Charm Season 9.
Paige DeSorbo chose a very interesting outfit to survey ongoing construction on Southern Charm Season 9. (Image Credit: Bravo)

Over Mother’s Day weekend that some month, Paige revealed, she had undergone an egg-freezing procedure.

“You wanna know why I felt maternal?” she shared.

“This is how I knew: Walking down the streets of New York City, I was like, ‘If anyone steps to me right now with my eggs just brewing and ready to be taken out, I’ll f—king cut someone.’”

Notably, egg-extraction is an invasive procedure that involves hormonal treatments ahead of time.

These injections can result in a number of dramatic emotional highs and lows.

An irate Paige DeSorbo stands just outside the door in a pretty pink dress.
During a heated dinner scene on ‘Summer House’ Season 9, Paige DeSorbo absolutely heard what you said about her. (Image Credit: Bravo)

She had a positive experience with her egg retrieval

Paige DeSorbo raved over Dr. Joshua Klein, the reproductive endocrinologist who performed her egg retrieval. Dr. Klein is also the co-founder of New York City’s Extend Fertility clinic.

“He was amazing,” she praised. “I felt smarter after being around him. Every time he said, ‘Good question’ to me, I was like, ‘I’m a good student.’” (And is that not, at the end of the day, what we all crave?)

Paige detailed that she received her hormone injection on May 7 and underwent the retrieval on May 9.

Extracting more than two dozen eggs, she shared, took only around 20 minutes.

Paige DeSorbo on WWHL in April 2025.
On the Wednesday, April 23 episode of ‘Watch What Happens Live,’ Paige DeSorbo cleared the air months after her breakup. (Image Credit: Bravo)

“My mom came down with me,” Paige dished. “They retrieved a total of 28 eggs … I only had 13 survive. So I have 13 frozen now… That’s a really good amount of eggs.”

The hormonal treatment and procedure takes a toll on the human body.

By comparison, sperm collection is much easier. With that in mind, she’s unsure if she’d do it again — and, if she did, it would not be for several months.

“I need to give my body a break,” Paige reasoned.

“I’m very proud of myself for like doing the whole process… It felt very serendipitous that I did it over Mother’s Day weekend. I truly do feel less pressure. It’s like, OK, and even if I only have one child, that is what is meant for the world.”

Paige DeSorbo makes an expressive facial expression on 'Summer House' Season 9.
On ‘Summer House’ Season 9, Paige DeSorbo makes quite the face at her then-boyfriend. (Image Credit: Bravo)

Is Paige DeSorbo currently pregnant?

She has spoken on her podcast in the past about how she had, at one time, imagined becoming a mother around this age. But she is not a mother, or even pregnant yet.

Now, she is focusing on her career.

But she would love the option of having children when she’s 39 or 40. Wisely, she would like to keep the door open.

Most fertility clinics recommend using frozen eggs within a decade of retrieval.

That sounds like it fits with Paige DeSorbo’s current plans to become pregnant just fine.

Paige DeSorbo Pregnant? Her Fertility Journey, Explained was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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David Eason Sees Daughter Ensley For First Time In 2 Years After She’s Hospitalized

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Jenelle Evans and David Eason are still in the midst of a very messy divorce.

But it seems that they briefly set aside their differences this week, when their 9-year-old daughter, Ensley, was hospitalized.

Yes, Jenelle revealed earlier in the week that Ensley was suffering from a respiratory infection, and the situation got bad enough that she needed to be hospitalized.

David Eason, Ensley Eason and Jenelle Eason attend the Cosmopolitan NYFW fashion show during New York Fashion Week at Tribeca 360 on February 08, 2019 in New York City.
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And according to a report from The Ashley’s Reality Roundup, David made the trip from North Carolina to Vegas, where Jenelle now lives.

He reportedly paid a visit to the hospital shortly after he landed, marking the first time that he’s seen Ensley in two years.

The Ashley reports that David had been banned from seeing Ensley until he submitted to a court-ordered psychological evaluation.

It’s not clear if he’s taken that test yet, but he probably didn’t need any special permission to see her in this case, due to the fact that Ensley had suffered a medical emergency.

David Eason on MTV.
During his ‘Teen Mom’ days, David Eason was not exactly a shining beacon of competence. Off camera, he was worse. (Image Credit: MTV)

Usually, court-mediated agreements between parents include special provisions for such scenarios.

According to the terms of their temporary custody agreement, Jenelle is required to notify David about any medical emergencies.

Jenelle and David will be back in court to hammer out a more permanent custody arrangement in March.

According to Jenelle, David has made occasional phone calls to Ensley, but he has not paid any child support since she separated from him in February 2024.

Jenelle Eason and David Eason attend ELF SACK at InstaSleep Mint Melts Presents New York Fashion Week Nolcha Shows Spring/Summer 2020 on September 07, 2019 in New York City.
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Along with all three of her kids, Jenelle moved from North Carolina to Vegas in the summer of 2024.

She had hoped to escape the volatility of her life back east, but many of her problems made the trip with her.

Not long after the move to Vegas, Jenelle sent her youngest son, Kaiser, back to North Carolina to live with his grandmother.

Her other son, Jace, ran away from home several times, and Jenelle wound up trying multiple living arrangements, including sending him to North Carolina to live with his grandmother and to Florida to live with his father.

Both arrangements were short-lived, and while his whereabouts are not quite clear, it now looks as though the 16-year-old is back living in North Carolina.

As for Ensley, she’s expected to make a full recovery. And thankfully, it looks as though there was no confrontation between her parents in the hospital room.

David Eason Sees Daughter Ensley For First Time In 2 Years After She’s Hospitalized was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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For 80 years, the president’s party has almost always lost House seats in midterm elections, a pattern that makes the 2026 congressional outlook clear

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Now that the 2026 midterm elections are less than a year away, public interest in where things stand is on the rise. Of course, in a democracy no one knows the outcome of an election before it takes place, despite what the pollsters may predict.

Nevertheless, it is common for commentators and citizens to revisit old elections to learn what might be coming in the ones that lie ahead.

The historical lessons from modern midterm congressional elections are not favorable for Republicans today.

Most of the students I taught in American government classes for over 40 years knew that the party in control of the White House was likely to encounter setbacks in midterms. They usually did not know just how settled and solid that pattern was.

Since 1946, there have been 20 midterm elections. In 18 of them, the president’s party lost seats in the House of Representatives. That’s 90% of the midterm elections in the past 80 years.

Measured against that pattern, the odds that the Republicans will hold their slim House majority in 2026 are small. Another factor makes them smaller. When the sitting president is “underwater” – below 50% – in job approval polls, the likelihood of a bad midterm election result becomes a certainty. All the presidents since Harry S. Truman whose job approval was below 50% in the month before a midterm election lost seats in the House. All of them.

Even popular presidents – Dwight D. Eisenhower, in both of his terms; John F. Kennedy; Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; Ronald Reagan in 1986; and George H. W. Bush – lost seats in midterm elections.

The list of unpopular presidents who lost House seats is even longer – Truman in 1946 and 1950, Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966, Jimmy Carter in 1978, Reagan in 1982, Bill Clinton in 1994, George W. Bush in 2006, Barack Obama in both 2010 and 2014, Donald Trump in 2018 and Joe Biden in 2022.

Exceptions are rare

There are only two cases in the past 80 years where the party of a sitting president won midterm seats in the House. Both involved special circumstances.

In 1998, Clinton was in the sixth year of his presidency and had good numbers for economic growth, declining interest rates and low unemployment. His average approval rating, according to Gallup, in his second term was 60.6%, the highest average achieved by any second-term president from Truman to Biden.

Moreover, the 1998 midterm elections took place in the midst of Clinton’s impeachment, when most Americans were simultaneously critical of the president’s personal behavior and convinced that that behavior did not merit removal from office. Good economic metrics and widespread concern that Republican impeachers were going too far led to modest gains for the Democrats in the 1998 midterm elections. The Democrats picked up five House seats.

The other exception to the rule of thumb that presidents suffer midterm losses was George W. Bush in 2002. Bush, narrowly elected in 2000, had a dramatic rise in popularity after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The nation rallied around the flag and the president, and Republicans won eight House seats in the 2002 midterm elections.

Those were the rare cases when a popular sitting president got positive House results in a midterm election. And the positive results were small.

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Midterms matter

In the 20 midterm elections between 1946 and 2022, small changes in the House – a shift of less than 10 seats – occurred six times. Modest changes – between 11 and 39 seats – took place seven times. Big changes, so-called “wave elections” involving more than 40 seats, have happened seven times.

In every midterm election since 1946, at least five seats flipped from one party to the other. If the net result of the midterm elections in 2026 moved five seats from Republicans to Democrats, that would be enough to make Democrats the majority in the House.

In an era of close elections and narrow margins on Capitol Hill, midterms make a difference. The past five presidents – Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden – entered office with their party in control of both houses of Congress. All five lost their party majority in the House or the Senate in their first two years in office.

Will that happen again in 2026?

The obvious prediction would be yes. But nothing in politics is set in stone. Between now and November 2026, redistricting will move the boundaries of a yet-to-be-determined number of congressional districts. That could make it harder to predict the likely results in 2026.

Unexpected events, or good performance in office, could move Trump’s job approval numbers above 50%. Republicans would still be likely to lose House seats in the 2026 midterms, but a popular president would raise the chances that they could hold their narrow majority.

And there are other possibilities. Perhaps 2026 will involve issues like those in recent presidential elections.

Close results could be followed by raucous recounts and court controversies of the kind that made Florida the focal point in the 2000 presidential election. Prominent public challenges to voting tallies and procedures, like those that followed Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of victory in 2020, would make matters worse.

The forthcoming midterms may not be like anything seen in recent congressional election cycles.

Democracy is never easy, and elections matter more than ever. Examining long-established patterns in midterm party performance makes citizens clear-eyed about what is likely to happen in the 2026 congressional elections. Thinking ahead about unusual challenges that might arise in close and consequential contests makes everyone better prepared for the hard work of maintaining a healthy democratic republic.

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Robert A. Strong does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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