September 10, 2025 • 8 mins
Jenny has made a decision - she wants kids now? She delves into this new revelation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are. We've been talking to Jenny, and Jenny wants something,
desires something kind of you didn't really know that you
desired this until it kind of came on you suddenly,
and now you want to talk about it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
This past weekend, I was out with my girlfriends. We
were at places where there were a lot of people
around our age, and I saw all those people with
little kids and babies, and I was like, oh, that's
so sweet.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It was like couples and stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And it just had me feeling like, I genuinely do
think that I really want kids someday. And I have
always been kind of on the fence about it. I've
never been one of those people who just felt.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Like motherhood was my thing.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You know. I've always thought like, I like kids, I
get along with kids, I love kids. I love my
nieces and nephews, just anyone's kids that I have in
my life, I love them, and I feel like I
get along with kids very well. I just didn't know
if it was for me. But now I'm like having
this desire to have a family, and I'm watching other
people with their families, and I'm getting a little bit
sad because I am thirty five years old. Now, I
(01:07):
am recently out of a long relationship, so I'm starting
over again, and I'm sad because I feel like I
don't know if I'm going to have that, Like I
genuinely don't know if it's going to happen for me.
And it wouldn't be that in the world, because I
do love my life as is. I have a really
good life, and I'm very lucky and blessed for the
life that I have. But there is just like a
part of me that saw these couples this past weekend.
(01:29):
Then I was like, Wow, that'd be really nice to
have some day. But then I also got sad, thinking
like what if I don't ever get to have that.
So it's this new revelation that has happened for me
that I'm a little bit surprised by, just because I'd
never have felt quite that strong about it in the past.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
What has changed since, like, you know, six months ago, Jenny,
that was like I don't want kids tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I've never not wanted kids, sure, I just was unsure.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I think what has changed is the fact that I
feel like I can't have it.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah now because now you want it because you can't
have it right, yeah, which is.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
An unhealthy thing, and I have to, like, you know,
come to Jesus and be like, hey, you know, do
you really want it or is it like because you
can't have it? So I think that that does play
a little bit of a role. But I think I'm
just getting older too, Like I don't live the same
lifestyle as I used to, And there are just things
that you change every like handful of years. You change
(02:20):
as a person and you're interested in different things. And
I think I'm finally like more mature. I used to
be much more selfish as a human, and I think
like now I'm willing to give my time to a child,
whereas like five.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Years ago, I couldn't imagine having to get up on a.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Saturday morning to a crying baby because I wanted to
sleep in and do whatever I want.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, here's I mean, this is not something that nobody knows.
But you do not have to have a partner necessarily
to have kids. I agree, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I know me as a person would really prefer to
have a partner. I really do think I would need
that support because especially because I live in the Twin
Cities and I don't live my family, so my family
is all like five hours away, So I definitely would
want a partner, but yeah, I will see if it
happens for me. I'm never going I also feel like
(03:10):
a lot of women that get to this age, they
start to like live their life based on trying to
find that partner, Aye, get that kid and whatever. And
I'm not going to do that either, Yeah, because I'm
just not I don't rush into things and it's just
not who I am as a person.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
But we've also you and I have talked about too
that like sometimes you get to the point where you'll
go on a first date and get a lot of
the stuff out of the way because you're not here
to you know, small talk anymore, like do you want kids?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Are you looking for marriage?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
And yeah, that might be a turn off for some people,
but it's like, I'm not here to waste my time.
And I know a lot of a lot of people
who have like left super long term relationships because they
realized we're not on the same page. And then they
turn around find somebody like marry them within a year
and then have kids right away because they were on
the same page and they both wanted a family and
all of that kind.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Of stuff, which is wild to me.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
But like when you're in that boat and you know that,
like this is what I want, that it makes sense,
I guess for sure.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yeah, but I totally get where you're coming from.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Where it's like, wow, look at all these people with
children and families and things, and it seems like, oh,
look they're walking into conferences.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
But that would be nice, you know, you.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Know you I at a coffee shop and they're getting
there like morning donuts, sweeper, kids and stuff, and I
was like, that is a life that I really would
love to have at this point.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But man, I'm getting a little teary eyed about it.
Oh but I thought it.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Was so sweet, And I'm like, man, I like hope
that that is in my future.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I hope so too. Having kids is the best experience
of my life. And it's not just one experience, it's
all that they give you. And watching you're getting a
little tear up. There's a little paper towel for you.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Just watching my kids grow up and become adults and
seeing them develop and change and some have kids of
their own. Carson told me the other day he's only
twenty four. He said, I said, you want to be
a tour manager your whole life. He's like, I don't know.
I want to have a family someday. And I thought
that was very sweet that he's twenty four years old
and he want us to have a family someday.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
It's definitely real.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Alyssa and I, just as we've gotten more serious and
even gotten a dog, just have talked about, like, you know,
one day we want to have like little babies. But
it's tough because Jenny, like you said, we're also not
near family.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
But it's definitely something that I think you will go through.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm going to tell you this. When we did not
raise Alison or Carson near family, we did just fine.
But there were two of us, Yeah, and we were
lucky enough to be steadily employed so we could afford
daycare and the things. And I think that you are
at a point financially where you could afford a kid.
I'm going to tell you this one. Having a kid
that you can't afford is I've noticed in life. It
is the first toppling domino of a very very tough life.
(05:45):
Having a kid that you can't afford is the first
toppling Domino. But you're at the point where you can
probably afford it. You make iHeart money, so you know, yeah,
make okay money.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I think, Okay, I'm willing to hustle a little bit, yeah,
to afford a child.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
But I see what you mean though.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
It's like, yeah, you could do it on your own,
but like having someone else would be nice. But then
if you have if you don't have anyone right now,
then even if you met someone tomorrow, you would have
to you know, court and all of that jazz, and
then get married. You want to get married first, and
then if all the baby and it would take a while.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Call me right now you want to get Yeah, call
me right now if you want to get jeny. No,
I need you know a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Phones are now?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
How tall are you? What do you do? Whether you're athletic?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Did you ever have polio? You need to know that
you're a polio I suppose what are your special skills?
Do you have anxiety?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Because only one of us can have that relationship. Okay,
there's a bunch.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Of text messages. Jenny says that she you know, not
all of a sudden, but is like growing to realize
she wants to have a baby or a family. Jenny,
this text says, I'm one hundred percent in the same
boat recently out of a long marriage. I think you
can probably relate. We think of kids in our former
relationship and it wasn't quite the right fit. Now, as
I round the corner to forty, with new starts and beginnings,
(06:59):
I'm thinking about these new things. Proud of you and
thanks for sharing this all the way from Lakeland, Florida
and Natalie who's listening on the iHeartRadio app. Jenny, I
feel like I'm thirty four and within three years I've
had two kids and marry my husband. It can happen
in a whirlwind. You know what you want, so you
don't have to waste time.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Yeah, so for.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Sure someone else is that Bailey and Jenny could share
the baby.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Let's do that and we can make it anto a movie. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Would you ever consider like adopting because I'm in the
boat where I think if I'm forty and I don't
have a husband or whatever, I would probably adopt like
a five year old kid because then I can say
I got pregnant.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
At thirty five.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Hy Jen, I do think that I would consider adoption
because for a while, I also like didn't I still
don't like love idea.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Of being pregnant.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, honestly, I really don't, So adoption would not be
ruled out for me.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I would definitely consider that too.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, if you have a baby that you are a
little tired of being around the house, you want to
get Jenny pregnant, go ahead and the slide into red
MS Jenny KBWB.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Yeah, A, Lissa and I can have a kid and
just drop them off at your place too. That's that's easier, guys.
But have the cutest kid. I mean, if it had
Alyssa's jeans.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yes, yeah, me and Alyssa, I have alway said you're
gonna make some cute babies. I don't know why.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I just feel it, and I feel like my first kid.
Put it on the record right now. I think it's
gonna be a girl when that day comes. So Auntie
Jenny and baby baby vaunt or baby Alyssaez fifty fifty
We are. We've been talking to Jenny, and Jenny wants something,
desires something kind of you didn't really know that you
desired this until it kind of came on you suddenly,
and now you want to talk about it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
This past weekend, I was out with my girlfriends. We
were at places where there were a lot of people
around our age, and I saw all those people with
little kids and babies, and I was like, oh, that's
so sweet.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It was like couples and stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And it just had me feeling like, I genuinely do
think that I really want kids someday. And I have
always been kind of on the fence about it. I've
never been one of those people who just felt.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Like motherhood was my thing.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You know. I've always thought like, I like kids, I
get along with kids, I love kids. I love my
nieces and nephews, just anyone's kids that I have in
my life, I love them, and I feel like I
get along with kids very well. I just didn't know
if it was for me. But now I'm like having
this desire to have a family, and I'm watching other
people with their families, and I'm getting a little bit
sad because I am thirty five years old. Now, I
(01:07):
am recently out of a long relationship, so I'm starting
over again, and I'm sad because I feel like I
don't know if I'm going to have that, Like I
genuinely don't know if it's going to happen for me.
And it wouldn't be that in the world, because I
do love my life as is. I have a really
good life, and I'm very lucky and blessed for the
life that I have. But there is just like a
part of me that saw these couples this past weekend.
(01:29):
Then I was like, Wow, that'd be really nice to
have some day. But then I also got sad, thinking
like what if I don't ever get to have that.
So it's this new revelation that has happened for me
that I'm a little bit surprised by, just because I'd
never have felt quite that strong about it in the past.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
What has changed since, like, you know, six months ago, Jenny,
that was like I don't want kids tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I've never not wanted kids, sure, I just was unsure.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I think what has changed is the fact that I
feel like I can't have it.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah now because now you want it because you can't
have it right, yeah, which is.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
An unhealthy thing, and I have to, like, you know,
come to Jesus and be like, hey, you know, do
you really want it or is it like because you
can't have it? So I think that that does play
a little bit of a role. But I think I'm
just getting older too, Like I don't live the same
lifestyle as I used to, And there are just things
that you change every like handful of years. You change
(02:20):
as a person and you're interested in different things. And
I think I'm finally like more mature. I used to
be much more selfish as a human, and I think
like now I'm willing to give my time to a child,
whereas like five.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Years ago, I couldn't imagine having to get up on a.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Saturday morning to a crying baby because I wanted to
sleep in and do whatever I want.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, here's I mean, this is not something that nobody knows.
But you do not have to have a partner necessarily
to have kids. I agree, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I know me as a person would really prefer to
have a partner. I really do think I would need
that support because especially because I live in the Twin
Cities and I don't live my family, so my family
is all like five hours away, So I definitely would
want a partner, but yeah, I will see if it
happens for me. I'm never going I also feel like
(03:10):
a lot of women that get to this age, they
start to like live their life based on trying to
find that partner, Aye, get that kid and whatever. And
I'm not going to do that either, Yeah, because I'm
just not I don't rush into things and it's just
not who I am as a person.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
But we've also you and I have talked about too
that like sometimes you get to the point where you'll
go on a first date and get a lot of
the stuff out of the way because you're not here
to you know, small talk anymore, like do you want kids?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Are you looking for marriage?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
And yeah, that might be a turn off for some people,
but it's like, I'm not here to waste my time.
And I know a lot of a lot of people
who have like left super long term relationships because they
realized we're not on the same page. And then they
turn around find somebody like marry them within a year
and then have kids right away because they were on
the same page and they both wanted a family and
all of that kind.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Of stuff, which is wild to me.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
But like when you're in that boat and you know that,
like this is what I want, that it makes sense,
I guess for sure.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yeah, but I totally get where you're coming from.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Where it's like, wow, look at all these people with
children and families and things, and it seems like, oh,
look they're walking into conferences.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
But that would be nice, you know, you.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Know you I at a coffee shop and they're getting
there like morning donuts, sweeper, kids and stuff, and I
was like, that is a life that I really would
love to have at this point.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But man, I'm getting a little teary eyed about it.
Oh but I thought it.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Was so sweet, And I'm like, man, I like hope
that that is in my future.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I hope so too. Having kids is the best experience
of my life. And it's not just one experience, it's
all that they give you. And watching you're getting a
little tear up. There's a little paper towel for you.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Just watching my kids grow up and become adults and
seeing them develop and change and some have kids of
their own. Carson told me the other day he's only
twenty four. He said, I said, you want to be
a tour manager your whole life. He's like, I don't know.
I want to have a family someday. And I thought
that was very sweet that he's twenty four years old
and he want us to have a family someday.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
It's definitely real.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Alyssa and I, just as we've gotten more serious and
even gotten a dog, just have talked about, like, you know,
one day we want to have like little babies. But
it's tough because Jenny, like you said, we're also not
near family.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
But it's definitely something that I think you will go through.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm going to tell you this. When we did not
raise Alison or Carson near family, we did just fine.
But there were two of us, Yeah, and we were
lucky enough to be steadily employed so we could afford
daycare and the things. And I think that you are
at a point financially where you could afford a kid.
I'm going to tell you this one. Having a kid
that you can't afford is I've noticed in life. It
is the first toppling domino of a very very tough life.
(05:45):
Having a kid that you can't afford is the first
toppling Domino. But you're at the point where you can
probably afford it. You make iHeart money, so you know, yeah,
make okay money.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I think, Okay, I'm willing to hustle a little bit, yeah,
to afford a child.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
But I see what you mean though.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
It's like, yeah, you could do it on your own,
but like having someone else would be nice. But then
if you have if you don't have anyone right now,
then even if you met someone tomorrow, you would have
to you know, court and all of that jazz, and
then get married. You want to get married first, and
then if all the baby and it would take a while.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Call me right now you want to get Yeah, call
me right now if you want to get jeny. No,
I need you know a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Phones are now?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
How tall are you? What do you do? Whether you're athletic?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Did you ever have polio? You need to know that
you're a polio I suppose what are your special skills?
Do you have anxiety?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Because only one of us can have that relationship. Okay,
there's a bunch.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Of text messages. Jenny says that she you know, not
all of a sudden, but is like growing to realize
she wants to have a baby or a family. Jenny,
this text says, I'm one hundred percent in the same
boat recently out of a long marriage. I think you
can probably relate. We think of kids in our former
relationship and it wasn't quite the right fit. Now, as
I round the corner to forty, with new starts and beginnings,
(06:59):
I'm thinking about these new things. Proud of you and
thanks for sharing this all the way from Lakeland, Florida
and Natalie who's listening on the iHeartRadio app. Jenny, I
feel like I'm thirty four and within three years I've
had two kids and marry my husband. It can happen
in a whirlwind. You know what you want, so you
don't have to waste time.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Yeah, so for.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Sure someone else is that Bailey and Jenny could share
the baby.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Let's do that and we can make it anto a movie. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Would you ever consider like adopting because I'm in the
boat where I think if I'm forty and I don't
have a husband or whatever, I would probably adopt like
a five year old kid because then I can say
I got pregnant.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
At thirty five.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Hy Jen, I do think that I would consider adoption
because for a while, I also like didn't I still
don't like love idea.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Of being pregnant.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, honestly, I really don't, So adoption would not be
ruled out for me.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I would definitely consider that too.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, if you have a baby that you are a
little tired of being around the house, you want to
get Jenny pregnant, go ahead and the slide into red
MS Jenny KBWB.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Yeah, A, Lissa and I can have a kid and
just drop them off at your place too. That's that's easier, guys.
But have the cutest kid. I mean, if it had
Alyssa's jeans.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yes, yeah, me and Alyssa, I have alway said you're
gonna make some cute babies. I don't know why.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I just feel it, and I feel like my first kid.
Put it on the record right now. I think it's
gonna be a girl when that day comes. So Auntie
Jenny and baby baby vaunt or baby Alyssaez fifty fifty
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