Real Housewives of Orange County alum Braunwyn Windham-Burke revealed her fiancée Jennifer Spinner is freezing her eggs as they plan to have a child together. The baby would be Braunwyn’s eighth and Jennifer’s first.
The couple got engaged in July 2023. Braunwyn is currently divorcing husband Sean Burke, the father of her seven children, as Braunwyn claims he’s refusing to pay alimony and child support. In February of last year, Braunwyn and Jennifer exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony in Las Vegas.
In an interview for Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea podcast, Braunwyn and her fiancée revealed that Jennifer is freezing eggs as they plan to have a kid.
“This is something I’ve been thinking about since I was in my late 20s and I never really was at a point in my life where it made sense to do it. I forget where we were having the conversation, but [Windham-Burke was] very blunt and [she] said, ‘If you’re gonna do it, you have five months,’” recalled Jennifer.
Before her 40th birthday, Braunwyn and Jennifer decided that freezing Jennifer’s eggs was necessary to fulfill their dream of raising their own kid together.
“I know you still feel really young but your eggs aren’t,” said Braunwyn. “[This is] coming from someone who’s older and whose eggs are cooked … because we’ve talked about having a child together … Jen is a great stepmom but there’s a part of her that wants to have her own child, her own biological child and I said, ‘If that’s something that you want to do, now’s the time.’”
Despite feeling confident about the procedure, Jennifer said she’ll only get pregnant if most of Braunwyn’s other kids are on board with it.
“If Braunwyn and I were just ourselves and there were no children in the picture, I think it would be an easy choice for me. Yes, I would go ahead and have another child,” said Jennifer. “I want to make sure that [the children] feel like they have agency in this choice because we’re not just growing a family that’s her and I. We’re growing a family that already exists and so I just want to make sure that before we make a decision that the younger kids have a say.”
Braunwyn said her oldest daughter Bella is “OK with it,” and her younger children are thrilled at the idea.
“I’ve talked to the little kids about it and they’re really excited,” she explained. “They would love that. So we’ll see where it lands.”
Jennifer shared that they’re “probably going to move forward” with getting pregnant. “But for me, it has to be at least six of seven yeses,” she added.
Their initial plan to get married in October has stalled because of the extended divorce battle with Sean. Braunwyn and Jennifer predict that the baby will come before a legally binding marriage.
“We have the appointment made and we start August 4,” said Braunwyn. “That’s when we start the process. We talked to the doctor, got all the information … I won’t have the exhaustion of pregnancy and all of the hormones and everything. So when she’s recovering, I’ll be feeling OK.”
“I’m going to be the one who has to leave at midnight to go get the pickles and ice cream. I’m excited to see her in that role, being pregnant. It is so beautiful,” she said.
“After our birthday party, we head to Guatemala for her never-ending birthday month. And then we start right when we get back,” she added. Jennifer then joked, “[It’s] the natural lesbian 40th birthday gift to themselves!”
