"I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child we decided to try this"
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There is a quiet cultural script hiding in Tiegs's plainspoken line: if biology makes something possible, it also makes it feel obligatory. Coming from a model whose public identity was built on a highly managed, highly visible body, the word "biologically" lands with extra weight. It frames reproduction not as romance or destiny, but as capability, almost like a health metric. The body becomes a credential, and the decision gets packaged as reasonable, even modest: we could, so we did.
The subtext is as revealing as the statement itself. "Have our own child" draws a bright boundary around belonging, as if parenthood only fully counts when it carries genetic proof. That phrasing carries the faint defensiveness of someone anticipating judgment about other paths - adoption, step-parenting, infertility treatments - and preemptively legitimizing the choice. It also hints at the era and milieu Tiegs comes from: late-20th-century celebrity culture where family life is both private and relentlessly scrutinized, and where "trying" is a socially acceptable way to narrate what is, in reality, a complicated mix of desire, timing, and pressure.
Why it works is its refusal of poetry. The sentence is almost clinical, and that’s precisely the point: it normalizes a deeply loaded decision by rendering it procedural. In doing so, it exposes how often reproduction is sold as the default project of adulthood, especially for women whose bodies have been treated as their primary public asset.
The subtext is as revealing as the statement itself. "Have our own child" draws a bright boundary around belonging, as if parenthood only fully counts when it carries genetic proof. That phrasing carries the faint defensiveness of someone anticipating judgment about other paths - adoption, step-parenting, infertility treatments - and preemptively legitimizing the choice. It also hints at the era and milieu Tiegs comes from: late-20th-century celebrity culture where family life is both private and relentlessly scrutinized, and where "trying" is a socially acceptable way to narrate what is, in reality, a complicated mix of desire, timing, and pressure.
Why it works is its refusal of poetry. The sentence is almost clinical, and that’s precisely the point: it normalizes a deeply loaded decision by rendering it procedural. In doing so, it exposes how often reproduction is sold as the default project of adulthood, especially for women whose bodies have been treated as their primary public asset.
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