Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals How Much Egg Freezing Will Cost After She Claims Her Insurance ‘Covers Nothing’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting candid about freezing her eggs.

After opening up about her fertility journey over the weekend, the 36-year-old congresswoman shared more insight into the process, including the cost.

“Cutting straight to the chase, this was one of the things that was most stressful for me, as well, when I was considering doing this — is cost,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a video shared to her Instagram Stories on Sunday, August 9. “My insurance does not cover one penny of this. It is 100 percent out of pocket. It doesn’t go to my deductible — nothing. It covers nothing.”

Sharing that her insurance isn’t covering the procedure, Ocasio-Cortez went on to break down the personal costs, telling her followers that the exact dollar amount can vary depending on where the patient lives, the type of clinic they go to, the medication needed and overall insurance-related costs for those who can obtain coverage.

“So, there are two main sources of costs,” she went on to explain. “So you don’t just, like, pay one lump sum to the doctor — you pay for the medicine, and then you also pay your clinic and for the procedure. So there’s two costs of it. Some places are very expensive — I am going to a place in New York City that specifically designs options for women who don’t have insurance covering it.”

“So the grand total personally, for me, all in, is going to be probably between $8,000 and $9,000,” Ocasio-Cortez added.

The revelation came one day after the Democrat representing New York City’s 14th congressional district shared that she made the decision to freeze her eggs.

“I want to share with you all a decision that is very personal that I have made that has taken me time to consider, weigh and save up for,” she said in the August 8 Instagram Stories upload, per Us Weekly. “And it is of a sensitive matter and a personal matter, and usually I keep my private life quite private, but I have made the decision to start freezing my eggs.”

Ocasio-Cortez, who is currently engaged to her longtime partner Riley Roberts,, admitted that her decision to open up about the process was due, in part, to the ongoing speculation about her political aspirations, with some pegging AOC as the frontrunner for the Democratic nominee for president in 2028.

“The media will run up and ask a question like, ‘Are you going to run for this? or, ‘Are you going to run for that?’ And it’s almost through this very two-dimensional, craven understanding or ambitious understanding of power,” Ocasio-Cortez explained. “When I think a lot of us actually approach these considerations or these decisions through the larger context of our lives as whole human beings and what is happening in our lives as whole human beings.”

Ocasio-Cortez, who was 29 when she was sworn into Congress after becoming the youngest woman elected to the House of Representatives in 2018, spoke more about the egg-freezing process during an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, telling host Jonathan Karl why she decided to go public with her fertility journey.

“I think it’s important for us to normalize these conversations, especially in this political environment,” she said.

“This administration is denying reproductive care to women across the country, from abortion rights to the ability to carry out a healthy pregnancy,” Ocasio-Cortez added of reproductive care under President Donald Trump. “I think it’s important for us as leaders to have these conversations and share these processes, especially for working women across the country, and normalize them.”