Woman Celebrates Doctorate With Maternity Shoot of Dissertation

She calls it her baby. After six years of hard labor, Eve Humphrey is now Ph.D. Humphrey had a maternity photo shoot to commemorate the event, and she says it is causing quite the stir. “A lot of people took it as saying, ‘Yeah, she doesn’t need kids.’ I don’t need kids, but I do wanna have kids one day. And I think that’s OK. And I think as the culture is changing and there’s more emphasis on partnership when it comes to child raising,’” Humprey told InsideEdition.com. As InsideEdition.com’s Stephanie Officer explains, the shoot has also led to discussions about diversity in science.