Actor and podcast host Dax Shepard recently revealed a surprising offer he made to his 11-year-old daughter, Delta. During a recent episode of his show, "Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard," the 51-year-old said he brought up the idea of freezing her eggs when she turns 18 so she wouldn’t have to feel rushed about motherhood later in life.
“I said, ‘If you want to, we’ll freeze your eggs when you’re 18. I’ll pay for you to get your eggs frozen so you don’t have to think about that,’” Shepard told his co-host, Monica Padman. He added that he was “acknowledging all lucky privilege,” recognizing that “obviously this isn’t an option for most people.”
Shepard explained that his suggestion came after Delta told him how excited she was about becoming a mother someday. He said she takes such good care of her stuffed animals that he’s confident she’ll be a great mom. “Our life is a traveling circus of Delty’s stuffies,” he joked.
The actor also shared his thoughts about why egg freezing could give women more flexibility as adults. “I think … it would make the most sense,” he said. “I think they’re going to be wrestling with the same thing every woman is. You’re going to want to do your career, whatever the hell.”
Still, despite his attempt to be supportive and forward-thinking, Shepard said Delta didn’t exactly jump at the idea. When he asked her when she imagined having her first baby, he recalled her looking at him like 18 was way too soon. She told him she was “thinking mid-20s” instead.
For Shepard, the conversation was less about setting expectations and more about making sure his daughter feels supported in whatever future she chooses. “I want to be supportive of whatever,” he said. “I don’t want to plant any seeds that I’d be judgmental or whatever.”
Shepard shares Delta and their 12-year-old daughter, Lincoln, with his wife, actress Kristen Bell. The couple, who married in 2013, met in 2007 at a dinner party thrown by mutual friends and connected again weeks later at a hockey game. After dating for two years, they got engaged in 2009 before tying the knot in a small courthouse ceremony in Beverly Hills.
Bell has been in the headlines recently as well, after a joke she made about domestic violence on Instagram drew pushback from fans. In a post celebrating her wedding anniversary with Shepard, she wrote, “Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: ‘I would never kill you… Even though I’m heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would.’” Many followers didn’t find the joke amusing, with one commenting, “Domestic violence isn’t a joke,” while another asked, “is this… supposed to be funny?”
Despite occasional controversy, Shepard and Bell are known for talking openly about marriage, family life, and parenting — even when the conversations take unexpected turns, like planning for their daughter’s potential motherhood years before she reaches adulthood.
