"When I was 34 I went and had my eggs harvested," she told Us Weekly at the Josie Stevens Loves J. Valentine Fashion Show in Hollywood Wednesday. "Looking back I was like, 'It was easy,' but it wasn't that easy. It's a lot of medication, a lot of hormones. You have to inject yourself in the stomach and I'm so terrified of needles! It was a difficult thing for me to do."
The buxom blonde says she made the decision to get her eggs frozen while still living in the Playboy Mansion with her then-lover Hugh Hefner.
"Holly [Madison] and Hef were obviously the main relationship. We weren't allowed to date or anything like that," she explained. "I wanted to have a little bit of insurance policy and a little extra time."
Marquardt, who's been dating director Nicholas Carpenter since 2008, says she has no regrets about the fertility procedure.
"I think that it was 100% worth it," she told Us. "I don't feel that clock ticking. I'm not really worried about it. At the same time I would like to have kids someday, but I'm not one of those people who's dying to have kids. If it doesn't happen or if I decide to adopt later, that's fine, too."
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