India, March 6 -- In a candid conversation on a podcast with Bollywood actress Shefali Shah, Karishma Mehta, the founder and CEO of Humans of Bombay, shared her reasons for freezing her eggs at the age of 32 and also underscored the challenges. Mehta, who had earlier spoken about this personal milestone in an Instagram post, emphasized that she wanted the option of having children in the future without the pressure of a ticking biological clock.

"I may or may not want kids, but I wanted insurance," she explained. "It is a hard process-2-3 weeks of hormones and injections-but this weight is kind of taken off my shoulders because I no longer have to worry that I will be 35 and might not be able to conceive." She added that her decision was...