Tara Lipinksi, ice skating phenom and 1998 Olympic Champion, is currently CNBC. In the article, she talked about her struggles with infertility and multiple miscarriages. She used the one word that came up in every interview I did for my research about involuntary childlessness after infertility: isolating. She bravely shared what she's been going through for the last five years, and she didn't wait until she had a baby to do so.
She said she wasn't emotionally or mentally able to talk about it publicly until now.
She described infertility as a full-time job that your entire life revolves around.
She said infertility is much more difficult than the Olympics.
In addition to this article, she has a podcast coming out at the end of this month about her experiences with infertility. It's called Tara Lipinski: Unexpecting.
Thank you, Tara. I know you are helping a lot of women out there feel less alone.
Oh, I did not see this! I always appreciate when famous people share the ugly day to day of infertility. I'm sorry she's going through this, though.
ReplyDeleteLate to the table here. Wow! I had not heard this news. Thank you so much for sharing it. As we all know too well it is entirely too rare to see these stories. Grateful to know high profile folks are stepping forward to bring the discussion into greater focus!
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