I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.
Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant.
My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss.
Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.
My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant.
We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'
My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.
To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.