Sometimes ignorance truly is bliss.
At least that’s how My Big Fat Fabulous Life star Whitney Way Thore felt as she was trying to choose a sperm donor to welcome a baby on her own.
As she inched toward her 41st birthday while filming the 13th season of her TLC series (Tuesdays, 9 p.m.), “I just thought I realistically should not waste any more time,” Whitney explained in an exclusive interview with E! News of exploring artificial insemination.
But she found herself experiencing an extreme version of decision fatigue when she searched the database of potential donors.
“It felt not much different than being on a dating app, but having way higher stakes,” she explained. “And I even find this on dating apps, it’s almost like the less information I can see is usually the better, because men will find a way to ruin it.”
While she wasn’t too picky about the guy’s physical traits, “It doesn’t take a whole lot for me to go, ‘Oh, never mind,” Whitney added. And so she’d find herself getting her hopes up reading through a profile “and then there was a question-and-answer section and they almost seemed illiterate. And I was like, ‘No, I can’t.'”