Diana Hayden Delivers Baby from Egg Frozen Years Ago

Former Miss World and Bollywood actress Diana Hayden gave birth to a healthy baby girl at a hospital in Mumbai Jan. 9 through an egg that the 42-year-old actor-model had frozen eight years ago.

[Former Miss World Diana Hayden successfully delivered a baby girl from an egg frozen by her eight years ago at the Mumbai-based Bloom IVF Group. (Diana Hayden/Facebook photo)]

By India West Staff

Former Miss World and Bollywood actress Diana Hayden gave birth to a healthy baby girl at a hospital in Mumbai Jan. 9 through an egg that the 42-year-old actor-model had frozen eight years ago.

Renowned infertility and IVF specialists and directors of the Mumbai-based Bloom IVF Group, Dr. Hrishikesh Pai and Dr. Nandita Palshetkar, are behind this medical marvel that shows medical technology is opening up a world of possibilities for women who are worried about their biological clock ticking.

Hayden had consulted Palshetkar at the age of 32, when she read about egg freezing for the first time in 2005. She subsequently froze 16 eggs at the Bloom Fertility Center. The actress chose to freeze her eggs for two reasons, according to a press release from the Bloom IVF Group: She was busy with her career at that time and, more importantly, she was very clear that she was going to wait to fall in love and marry before having a baby.

Pediatrician Dr. Bhupendra Avasthi of Surya Hospital in suburban Santacruz, Mumbai, where the baby, Arya Hayden, was born, said that normally the average weight and length of a new born in India is 2.6 kilograms (5.7 pounds) and 48 centimeters, but Hayden’s daughter weighed 3.7 kilograms (11 pounds) and was 55 centimeters at the time of birth, according to a PTI report.

Pai and Palshetkar believe that Hayden could be a poster girl for egg freezing technology. “Egg freezing for medical reasons is done frequently, but I would say that Diana is among the first to use it for lifestyle reasons,” said Pai.

Moreover, Hayden also suffered from endometriosis, a painful disorder in which the endometrium or the tissue that normally lines the inside of the uterus grows outside the uterus, affecting the quality of the eggs.

This story was originally published on India West.