Entertainment- "The Sex Lives of College Girls" star Pauline Chalamet spoke to Insider about her season two arc.
- This season, Kimberly chooses to sell her eggs in order to afford to keep her spot at school.
"The Sex Lives of College Girls" star Pauline Chalamet reacted to her character Kimberly Finkle choosing to sell her eggs so she can afford to stay at Essex College.
"What I love is that Kimberly really goes on a journey and she explores different options and she realizes that she's really at the end of her rope basically and is forced to ask herself, does she want to sell her eggs?" Chalamet told Insider in a recent interview ahead of the release of season two of "SLOCG."
At the end of season one of the hit HBO Max series, created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, Kimberly's merit-based scholarship was revoked after she was caught cheating on her economics midterm.
Season two shows Kimberly grappling with how to come up with $138,000 total, or $42,000 per year, to keep her spot at Essex.
Instead of telling her parents that she lost the scholarship, Kimberly takes matters into her own hands to figure out a solution.
After some failed attempts to make the extra money, Kimberly sees a pamphlet looking for young women to sell their eggs in exchange for $80,000. Once she weighs the pros and cons, she calls the fertility clinic to apply to sell her eggs and then begins taking hormone injections to coach her body into making lots of eggs.
The medical procedure goes smoothly during episode five and Kimberly successfully sells approximately 28 eggs.
Chalamet said that selling eggs isn't a light decision, "so to realize that an 18-year-old girl not only thinking, but deciding, to do that in order to stay in school speaks to Kimberly and her absolute desire and need to stay at Essex."
Chalamet also said that she liked that Kimberly didn't immediately arrive at this solution in order to pay her tuition.
"She actually explored other viable options that just didn't work out and this was her last option," she said. "And I really love how we took the time in getting there because it just let the stakes grow."
The first six episodes of season two of "The Sex Lives of College Girls" are streaming on HBO Max. The 10-episode season continues with two new episodes weekly leading up to the season finale on December 15.