First Comes Love. Then Comes Sterilization. – by Suzy Weiss – Common Sense with Bari Weiss
Rachel Diamond looks like most of the moms at the Park Slope café where we meet. She s wearing a green t-shirt under a black corduroy jumper, sensible shoes and carries a smart, leather bag. She sips a four dollar iced chai. Except the 31-year-old isn t a mom. And she never will be. You know, Diamond says cheerily, I never expected to be the poster child of sterilization.
On the aspiring actor s TikTok, one finds short funny videos about Diamond s job working the register at a cafe near Union Square and updates on her rescue pitbull, Rue, who has anemia. Mixed in are the clips extolling her child-free life. They have titles like Sterilization Attempt #3 and Being Childfree: We DO Know What We re Missing. It s been five months since she had her fallopian tubes cut not tied and she has 64,000 followers.
And she might be right — for her.