Delray doctor learns 'scary lesson' from 'Bachelor' outburst
By
Mark Schwed
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 13, 2006
She's hot, in a lanky, dark-haired Eva Longoria sort of way.
She's smart, with a killer job where she gets to save lives.
She's rich, pulling in the big bucks.
In short, she's the perfect catch.
So why can't 33-year-old Dr. Allie Garcia-Serra of Delray Beach find a man?
Perhaps and this is only speculation it's because her ovaries are on fire, creating a scent that repels the average male. Her biological clock is ticking like a time bomb, which happened to explode on national TV Monday night during the season premiere of ABC's
The Bachelor, where 25 women compete for the attention of one single guy. Her reason for being there? "Quite frankly, my eggs are rotting," she explained to the other bachelorettes.
Then it was time to meet the bachelor himself, a doctor named Travis Stork. Here, the women must outmaneuver each other in order to snatch a few minutes of face time with their prey. Dr. Allie G, as she was called on the show, caught him on the couch. But when another woman horned in, she says she got a bit nervous and blurted out her now famous line, that she was entering "the reproductive phase of my life."
But there would be no deliveries by Dr. Stork that night. Garcia-Serra was sent home alone.
Those who watched the episode witnessed a smart, beautiful woman making the ultimate dating mistake and delivering the worst pickup line in the history of females. She told a man she had just met that she wanted to get married and have babies like, right now.
"It was a very, very scary lesson to learn" about what not to say on a first date, says the oncologist, now back at Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach. "I had never done that in my life."
But then she says she knows why she did.
"I'm a busy professional. I was laying my cards on the table."
In fact, she gave up two weeks of her time, and had to hire another doctor to fill in for her, in order to travel to Paris to do the show, which was taped a couple months ago. "That wasn't cheap. I could have bought a new car."
So, at the end of the show, when she created more buzz by angrily confronting the bachelor and demanding to know whether her breasts were too small or her fanny too big, she says she was only seeking closure. "I needed to know why."
He explained that he wasn't ready to reproduce just yet. "I wish he would have said the **** thing," she says. "That would have been easier to deal with. In my mind he's just like every 30-year-old man who's looking for 23-year-old chicks to have fun."
The bottom line, she claims, is that she isn't really as desperate as she came across on national TV, although she is frustrated by the lack of available males. She's tried dating doctors, but they're "single for a reason." She's tried Internet dating, blind dates and dating services with no luck. So naturally, her next move was to look for love on reality TV not exactly the best gene pool in life.
"The chances were very slim," she says about hooking up on
The Bachelor. "One out of 25."
The real issue, though, is the fried eggs factor. Not that she wants to reproduce tomorrow, she says. But the whole dating-marriage-baby thing takes time.
Here's how she breaks it down:
Let's say she meets Mr. Right. They'll date for a year. Be engaged for another year. Then get married. Wait one or two years. Then have a baby. By then, "I'm 38 years old and my eggs really are rotting," she says.
On
The Bachelor, her hunger to reproduce was palpable. Her choice of words that she was ready to move on to "the reproductive phase" of her life was unfortunate.
"I got misunderstood. It's doctor lingo. I'm sorry. I'm a doctor. We use the term 'reproduction.' "
Not, it turns out, if you actually want to reproduce.
People understand her dilemma, though. She says people have been calling to tell her they feel sorry for her. They know that men are dirty dogs who prey on sweet young things and, when they're through with them, move on to sweet even younger things. What's a 33-year-old professional woman to do?
"This is my issue," she says. "If guys my age are still looking at being single and doing the single thing, where am I supposed to find a husband? On top of that, I'm picky. I'm really in a pickle."
The good news is she's not worried whether she came across as a "psycho" on national TV. In fact, she's milking her fruitless TV debut for cash and fame. She's created a Web site (DrAllieG.com) to hawk T-shirts that say "Let's Reproduce" and "My Eggs are Rotting."
"I'm happy I did it. I don't regret anything I said or did. I wouldn't do it again. But I don't regret doing it. At least I made for good TV and entertainment. You always remember the one who created the buzz."
Yes, but buzz doesn't get you pregnant.
So for those men who are interested in meeting Dr. Allie G, as she was called on the show, these are her requirements:
Tall, slender, athletic, outgoing, romantic, thoughtful, compassionate, personable, witty, funny, with a nice butt.
And, just one more thing . . .
Fertile.
LOL!
And I think that "growl" was her purring kitty thing she does.
