The battle is actual for Chicagoan Kristy Katzmann.
Like many ladies within the body of workers, she needed to make a life-altering resolution: center of attention on her profession or get started a circle of relatives.
Katzmann, who works as an account government within the well being and wellness business, needs to be a mother, and if she has to make use of unconventional manner — starring on a truth TV sequence — to reach her desired targets, so be it.
“I always knew, of course, that I would focus on career and there were things that I wanted to do in my life first. I knew that but I certainly thought I would have already had kids by now,” stated Katzmann. “I feel I’ve been in a position, to be fair with you, for fairly some time, however you realize, for no matter reason why, the timing simply didn’t figure out. 40 is a in point of fact iconic age for ladies.
“I became very aware that I was running out of time. I really felt like my dating pool really shifted. Once I turned 40, any date that I was going on at that point, I was really assessing this person for future father potential. So that was tough, you know, to put a lot of pressure on those relationships, but that was my reality.”
Katzmann, a Mokena local and a Notre Dame alumna, stars within the Fox sequence “Labor of Love” (eight p.m. Thursday on WFLD-Channel 32), the place she vets 15 doable suitors who wish to be dads whilst they go through quite a lot of demanding situations to turn out their parental value.
Also, Katzmann’s folks, together with the households of the contestants, are interviewed whilst they candidly percentage their ideas on why the lads don’t seem to be married.
In her quest to discover a appropriate better half — extra importantly, the possible father to her kid — she enlists actress Kristin Davis of “Sex and the City” repute as a confidant and Brian Kaplan, a well known fertility physician, as an guide.
Katzmann, 41, does no longer endure fools. In the display’s first episode, the lads are subjected to a semen research to guage their fertility.
“I think it’s a really big differentiating point of what this show is all about,” stated Katzmann. “You know, it isn’t just about romance, it isn’t just about dating. It’s about something much bigger and much more serious about becoming a parent. So doing something like that off the bat is a reality check for everyone involved, and everyone who signed up said that they were ready and in that place, and this was a way to really prove it.”
As her adventure takes form, Katzmann is dependent upon no longer handiest her personal reviews as a contestant onSeason 11 of “The Bachelor,” which aired in 2007 (Katzmann used to be eradicated in Week 5) but in addition recommendation from Davis, a unmarried mother or father of 2 followed youngsters whose “SATC” persona Charlotte York had her personal problems with pursuing love and motherhood.
“I couldn’t have asked for a better person to have on my side,” stated Katzmann. “So she understands the pressure of not having kind of figured you’d be in this place and what you do about it, and she obviously had to take an unconventional route as well.”
Chicagoan Kristy Katzmann (proper) enlists actress Kristin Davis, of “Sex and the City repute (left), as a confidant.Jace Downs/ FOX MEDIA LLC
And what if not one of the males make the reduce after 8 episodes?
“Of course, my desire is to start a family with someone, so I certainly have gone into the whole experience with that in mind and in wanting that to be the outcome,” stated Katzmann. “But I have also already been prepared in my life to pursue motherhood no matter what.”
Once the display wraps up, Katzmann would really like for everybody who watches to look there’s multiple technique to get started a circle of relatives — and amend one’s relationship personal tastes.
“I think it’s really important for us all to understand that it’s really up to each of us to go out there and make our dreams happen,” stated Katzmann. “And I feel everybody can relate to that and I am hoping that everybody feels impressed through that; to take larger…