Rita Ora says she got the 'best advice' to freeze her eggs in her 20s

Rita Ora is grateful to her younger self for freezing her eggs.

The British pop star, 35, opened up in a new interview with Women's Health U.K. about the decision to undergo the process twice − at ages 24 and 27 − at the urging of her doctor. Her physician advised the choice, Ora said, given her mother's experience of early menopause following breast cancer treatment.

"A doctor told me it was a really good time to preserve the best quality [eggs]," Ora told Women's Health. "It was actually the best advice, because now I'm in my mid-30s and I have a lot of friends really trying to figure it out."

"I've been obsessed with longevity, and I think it started when my mom wasn't well, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at a pretty young age, and that subconsciously made me aware of health," she continued. "My mother's treatment stimulated menopause at an early age for her. So I’m trying to get ahead of it and learn about it."

Egg freezing refers to the process by which a person with a uterus' eggs, or oocytes, are extracted, then frozen and stored, for the purpose of being used later, according to UCLA. More popular in recent years, the procedure allows people to preserve their reproductive window.

Ora, who is a stepmother to her husband Taika Waititi's two daughters, says she hopes to have a child with the film director. The two wed in 2022, and Waititi shares children Te Kāinga o te Hinekāhu, 13, and Matewa Kiritapu, 9, with ex-wife Chelsea Winstanley.

"It will just be more of an expansion when the time comes," she said.