AOC secretly SPLIT from her longtime fiancé before egg freezing plan

Published: 23:12, 11 August 2026 | Updated: 23:25, 11 August 2026 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has reportedly split from her longtime fiancée. The controversial New York congresswoman broke up with Riley Roberts and called off their engagement, TMZ reports.   Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts met when they were both undergraduates at Boston University. The two were last pictured together at the 2021 Met Gala, and Ocasio-Cortez announced their engagement the following year. But about 18 months ago, the engagement was suddenly called off, according to Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent for Puck News. It is unclear what may have led up to the split, but insiders have said Ocasio-Cortez stopped wearing her engagement ring in the months before they decided not to get married. The shocking update comes just days after the 36-year-old congresswoman filmed herself injecting fertility drugs, in preparation for freezing her eggs.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has reportedly broken up with her longtime fiancee Riley Roberts. They are pictured together at the 2021 Met Gala Sources had claimed the 36-year-old congresswoman stopped wearing her engagement ring nearly two years ago 'This is just not something that men deal with,' the Democrat bemoaned in the video posted to her Instagram Stories on Saturday. 'Men run for office, or frankly, they interview for jobs and people don't think in the back of their mind, "OK this guy's running for office, how old is he? Oh, well is he gonna wanna start a family?" 'This is a choice I am making to feel more in control of my life,' the Representative, who has been in DC since being sworn into Congress at the age of 29, remarked. 'I want you all to see that,' she continued.  'And because women can do anything, and I think it's badass that I'm going to be giving myself shots in the green room [as I] get my glam on.'  As AOC now puts her plans to start a family on pause, speculation is mounting that she may run for higher office. In a recent appearance on ABC's This Week with Jonathan Karl, she insisted she is 'focused on winning the midterms. I'm running for Congress right now.'  But, she added: 'I haven't ruled out the possibility, and I'm very humbled to the tremendous amount of support out there,' when prodded about a run for President. She also noted that 'anything is possible,' when asked if she would challenge fellow New Yorker Chuck Schumer, the current Minority Leader in the US Senate, for his seat in 2028. AOC shared her incredibly candid journey of freezing her eggs in a Saturday instagram post In an interview with POLITICO last month, she responded: 'I mean, I can't say that I've ruled it out,' when asked about a presidential campaign. Back in May, while speaking at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez was asked by legendary Obama strategist David Axelrod whether she planned to run for higher office in 2028. 'They assume that my ambition is positional,' Ocasio-Cortez replied, adding ''They assume that my ambition is a title or seat, and my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.' She then outlined a wish list of socialist policies she would like to see implemented across the United States. 'Presidents come and go. Senate [and] House seats, elected officials come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever,' she noted, while attendees cheered, 'A living wage is forever. Workers' rights are forever. Women's rights. All of that.' 'When you aren't attached. When you haven't been like fantasizing about being this or that since the time you were seven years old, it is tremendously liberating,' the New York Democrat continued, adding, 'Because I get to wake up every day and say, 'How am I going to meet the moment?'