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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Steve Heisler | For the Sun-Times

Comedian Natasha Leggero writes with candor about her path to parenthood

Comedian Natasha Leggero is treated with dignity by her young daughter in a photo from her book “The World Deserves My Children.” (Elisabeth Caren)

For Rockford native and stand-up comic Natasha Leggero, the COVID-19 pandemic offered the exciting opportunity to be wracked with fear for her 4-year-old daughter’s uncertain future.

Leggero had given birth at the age of 42, after rounds of IVF and the use of frozen eggs she stored a few years prior. Unable to tour or work at a TV or film acting job in Los Angeles, where she currently resides, she sheltered in place with her daughter, her husband — fellow comedian and author Moshe Kasher — and poured time into the advice and comedy call-in show, “The Endless Honeymoon Podcast,” which she cohosts with Kasher.

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