No, not deviled eggs. Frozen ones.
---------------- Lauren Martinez was well prepared for a birthday party in her backyard in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She set out a tray of deviled eggs next to syringes filled with confetti; there were Eggo waffles, egg salad sandwiches, a quiche and onion dip with roe. There was also a bag of mini chocolate eggs and a tray of cupcakes, each decorated with white and yellow frosting in the shape of a fried egg.
Right before the event was supposed to start, her friend showed up with a homemade cake — “brat” green — with two fried eggs made of fondant on top.
If you’re sensing a theme, that’s because this wasn’t just any birthday celebration: It was the third birthday party for Ms. Martinez’s frozen eggs. On the invitation, which was dispatched to more than 40 friends, she called it her “cool mom bday party.”
“I’ve been throwing them a birthday party every year,” Ms. Martinez said, referring to the eggs she froze in 2021. “It’s summertime; it’s a good excuse for a party and to get together and have a bunch of people come.”
TikTok is full of women throwing and attending egg showers, in which they invite friends and family to celebrate their taking charge of their fertility futures.
“As women, we really only celebrate things like engagements, wedding anniversaries and baby showers,” Becky Hayes, a podcast host, said in a recent video that she posted to TikTok.
“A few of my friends, at the moment, are going through the process of freezing their eggs,” she continued. “This is such a big, stressful and expensive process. They are going through it all by themselves — funding it themselves, going through the actual logistics of it themselves. This needs to be celebrated.”