Tara Lipinski’sdaughterGeorgie Winterhas some very big skates to fill!
The newborn may just be seven weeks old, but her former Olympic champion figure skater mom already says she won’t be pushing Georgie to go down the same path.
“I feel like that’s a lot of pressure! I feel like that’s a lot,” the new mom, 41, noted during an appearance onThe Jennifer Hudson Show, Monday, when asked if she thinks her daughter will get into ice skating.
“Maybe I’ll take her to the rink and then if she wants to skate, then I guess I’ll have to skate with her,” Lipinski toldHusdon,42. “But hopefully she finds something of her own that doesn’t have to follow in mom’s footsteps.”
Tara Lipinski on ‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’.Chris Millard/Warner Bros.
Chris Millard/Warner Bros.
Lipinski and her husbandTodd Kapostasywelcomed their daughter Georgie via surrogate at the end of October,exclusively revealing their happy news to PEOPLE.
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“I dreamt about this for so long,” she said.
Lipinski added, “It’s the best tired I’ve ever been.”
The husband and wife duo,who wed in 2017,had feared their dream of becoming parents would never come true after years of struggling to conceive and miscarriages. The former figure skater also opened up to talk show host Hudson about their painful fertility journey.
“We went through a long, five-year journey and it was so difficult as I experienced so much pregnancy loss along the way,” she said. “Going through IVF and trying to get back more embryos to try pregnancy again. It was so isolating and I felt so alone.”
The athlete, who is also a sportscaster for NBC alongsideJohnny Weir,told PEOPLE back in Octoberthat infertility taught her a hard lesson. “It made me realize that sometimes life is just not fair,” she said. “For so long I thought, ‘Oh, you get a win, you get a loss, everything evens out.’ As a skater I was able to train harder, force it. But when it came to infertility, there’s things you can’t change.”
After years of trying for a successful pregnancy, Lipinski, who suffers fromendometriosis, and Kapostasy learned there was a reproductive immunology issue where her body would reject their fertilized embryo. “I went through four pregnancies, four miscarriages, fourD&Cs [dilation and curettage, an often painful procedure to remove pregnancy tissue from the uterine lining],” she said.
After her last miscarriage, “It was like, ‘Okay Tara, you’ve put your body through enough.’ That’s when I decided to think of other options.”
The Jennifer Hudson Showairs weekdays in syndication (check local listings).
source: people.com
