Jennette McCurdy Considers Freezing Her Eggs Despite Not Wanting Kids

Jennette McCurdy knows that she doesn't want children, but also realizes that she could change her mind later in her life and wants to be prepared for such a shift.

The former Nickelodeon star and author of "I'm Glad My Mom Died" recently opened up about the fact that she's considering freezing her eggs because she's "open to my mind changing."

On the latest episode of her "Hard Feelings" podcast, McCurdy, 31, revealed that she's considering the option of freezing her eggs in case she changes her mind about children one day.

"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," she said. "I am also open to my mind changing."

The actress continued to explain that she's changed a lot throughout her life so she doesn't want to wake up one day and regret not considering that she might change her mind about having children.

"I have changed a lot as a person in my years so far and I hope to continue changing," she said. "What I don't want to happen is for me to turn 40 and realize, 'F---, I want kids now,' and I don't have enough eggs to make it happen."

McCurdy went to an informational appointment to get details on the process and said she was "horrified" by what she learned.

"I'm hearing my body is going to look and feel like I'm pregnant," she explained. "I am going to have difficulties and emotionality, mood swings, and hormonal changes twenty times that of a regular period."

While she said that she's not motivated to freeze her eggs because having kids is not a thought for her right now, she fears changing her mind later and not taking this step.

"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," she continued.

"I am trying to weigh these options and it's quite complex. I was feeling confronted with aging and who I am now versus who I might be someday and how much I don't know about my future self. I was just confronted with all these life realities that, frankly, I didn't feel prepared for - and I still don't."

The bestselling author's podcast, "Hard Feelings," from Lemonada Media, features her real and raw reflections on challenging emotions and themes. The podcast premiered on October 24 and is recorded in real time when she's reflecting on difficult emotions. And her relatable approach is clearly working because the podcast hit No. 1 on Apple Podcasts the first week it aired.

"For example, I recorded an episode a couple of days ago that I could not have predicted the day beforehand," she told POPSUGAR. "I was like, 'I'm feeling something strongly,' and I grabbed my phone."

Being able to get to a place where McCurdy is able to honor her emotions has been a long journey and something that was very difficult for her to navigate.

"Understanding my emotions is probably the most difficult thing I've ever done. I had such a bad relationship with my emotions for so long," she said. "Tears would be coming down my face, and I wouldn't be able to tell you what emotion was at the heart of them. Could it be sadness, anger, jealousy, rate? I did not have a language or the tool to really understand my emotional experience."

In addition to her podcast, and after all the success her first book, "I'm Glad My Mom Died" has brought her, she's excited to be writing her first novel.