Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Call Her Daddy is one of the most popular podcasts in the world, ranking particularly high with women listeners. But before it was the sole domain of Alex Cooper, it was a shared effort, with co-founder Sofia Franklyn, who left the show after two years, in 2020, over a personal fallout. Now, just a day after Cooper announced the birth of her baby, Franklyn has published a chapter of her forthcoming memoir, Daddy Issues, in Vanity Fair, and it\u2019s all about her 2023 abortion. \u201cThere\u2019s no right way to talk about this. I share a lot in this book, but this is hard for me to say even now,\u201d she writes in an intro to the piece for VF. \u201cHaving an abortion isn\u2019t like having a public scandal, nor is writing about it. I can usually reconcile the dark corners of my past, but my feelings around my abortion are, in many ways, still pending, and, frankly, it still feels very wrong to share publicly. But I hope putting myself out there will free me from the self-imposed exile and shame.\u201d Related story Kerry Washington Opens Up About Learning To ‘Forgive’ Herself After Her Abortion When you have an abortion, she continues, \u201cthe take-home packet gives you explicit instructions on what to do if you bleed through two pads per hour. But nowhere does it include guidance on the emotional clusterfuck that\u2019s to come.\u201d She took the pills at home, and weeks later says she \u201ccouldn\u2019t recognize\u201d herself in the mirror, physically or mentally. \u201cI felt crazy. I later learned that there is a physiological, hormonal, neurological chain reaction that occurs. No one prepares you for that part,\u201d she writes. \u201cAt the time, all I had were Reddit threads and an off-handed comment my friend made to check my hormones months after. Getting some answers, no matter how disparate, made it less scary.\u201d She wrote this chapter, she explains, \u201cbecause I want women to feel less insane. Less alone. I want women to know that other women are having abortions. They are just not talking about it. We aren\u2019t supposed to.\u201d The chapter opens with her, at 30, explaining that she\u2019s feeling dejected after leaving Call Her Daddy and starting her own, not-as-successful podcast, Sofia with an F. She worries that anything she says will sound \u201cdumb and empty.\u201d After she complains of feeling bloated and her boyfriend Aidan suggests she could be pregnant \u2014 something she rejects because of having taken \u201cthe Chinatown version of Plan B\u201d \u2014 a home test confirms it. \u201cI spend the next three hours scrambling to prove the test wrong,\u201d she writes, \u201ccomparing the color of the lines to the pictures on the box, comparing the box to the pamphlet, and googling false positives, which turns out are much rarer than false negatives.\u201d She makes a beeline for Planned Parenthood, waiting an hour until a nurse takes her blood and confirms the pregnancy. She asks for an abortion, unsure of \u201cwhat comes next,\u201d and the nurse says they will discuss the options and schedule the procedure for the next week. But Franklyn wants it ASAP, as she was leaving for in just a couple of days for her \u201cincredible, nonrefundable, family-only trip to the Amalfi Coast for my birthday.\u201d The office squeezed her in the next day. \u201cI look six months pregnant by the time we get to Positano, which Reddit tells me is \u2018post-procedure belly,\u2019 even though I was only pregnant for about five weeks,\u201d she writes, adding that her brother commented that she looked pregnant \u201cout of the blue.\u201d She feels guilty when she tells her mom \u2014 who was 21 when she got pregnant with Franklyn \u2014 for being her age and \u201cgetting rid of it within 48 hours,\u201d and for wanting to protect her life of partying, \u201cnumbing,\u201d and \u201crunning.\u201d She wonders, \u201cHow can I bring new life into the world when I don\u2019t live a life worth keeping myself?\u201d Shortly after the trip, Franklyn learns that Cooper is launching her new media company, Unwell \u2014 a phrase Franklyn says she made a staple. When her manager suggests an indirect response, she posts photos of herself from the Italy trip with the caption, \u201cI\u2019m well.\u201d Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-female-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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