Close Menu
    Subscribe
    Entertainment

    Why Erin Andrews Believes Her Body Can Handle Another Round of IVF

    soreceryBy No Comments9 Mins Read

    Watch: Erin Andrews Shares Why She Believes Her Body Can Handle Another Round of IVF

    Erin Andrews isn’t giving up on expanding her family.

    After years of struggling with fertility following her 2017 cervical cancer diagnosis, the NFL sportscaster shared that she recently tried another round of in vitro fertilization (IVF) injections. And while they “didn’t work,” she is undeterred.

    “Here’s my whole thing: I am crazy,” Erin joked with cohost CharissaThompson on the April 11 episode of their Calm Down With Erin and Charissa podcast. “And I am with a doctor that said, ‘Listen, we’ll call it when it’s time.’”

    “But I am psychotic right now,” the 47-year-old laughed. “I just feel like I believe my body can do it, even though I know that my age is not—with what history says, it’s not great with producing eggs and the viability of your eggs. There’s just some s–t in me that I’m like, ‘Wait, watch. Watch me do it.’”

    Charissa was amazed by Erin’s resilience, noting that she knew her friend would “keep going” until someone told her that it’s “impossible.” And she knew it was that “tenacity” in Erin that led to her and husband Jarret Stollwelcoming son Mack in 2023 via surrogate.

    read

    Erin Andrews Shares the One Regret She Has Looking Back at Infertility, Cervical Cancer Journey

    “There was plenty of roadblocks that got in the way of him,” Charissa said, “and you were like, ‘Nope, I’m doing it.’”

    “When there is somebody that you trust and have listened to that says, ‘Hey, this is actually—there’s not another shot,’” Charissa added, “then I know you’ll be at peace with it, because you’ve tried everything up into that point. But like I’ve told you before, you’ve already won. You have a beautiful baby.”

    Nicole Vasquez/NHLI via Getty Images

    Erin has not been shy about sharing the difficulties she’s faced throughout her IVF journey, especially the way she dealt with some of the heartbreak.

    “My fertility clinic was right by McDonald’s, and we were always getting bad news,” she recalled to E! News in 2025, “and my appointments were always so early in the morning so I could deal with my work.”

    “So, it was like, ‘A sausage biscuit with two hash browns, thank you very much,’” she added. “And I would eat and cry in my car and call my husband: ‘It didn’t work again, but this sausage biscuit is so good.'”

    Savion Washington/WireImage

    While it’s been a tough road, the newscaster is glad she shared so much of her journey. 

    “People in my life knew I was going through it and I think people figured out I was in my 40s, that we didn’t have a kid, things like that,” Erin said. “But it wasn’t until I was in a waiting room, I think our eighth try, and I was just so sick of it. I was just like, ‘These waiting rooms are packed. Why am I being so embarrassed and quiet about this?'”

    And when she finally talked about it, “the text messages and the support we got of people being like, ‘We get it,’ were really awesome.” 

    For a look at more stars who have been candid about their fertility journeys, keep reading.

    Bella Robertson/Instagram

    Bella RobertsonThe Duck Dynasty star and husband Jacob Mayo have been open about why it’s important for them to give insight into their fertility struggles on her family’s new reality series. “We share the story of infertility in the show and that’s something that we haven’t really shared publicly that much, but that’s something that others just don’t know.” Bella said in a joint May 2025 interview with Jacob for Us Weekly. “When you just look at someone on social media, you can’t know what anyone’s going through.”For them, it not only “felt right” but allowed the pair to be their “authentic selves on this new show.”

    Instagram/Olivia Culpo

    Olivia Culpo Two years before the former Miss Universe and Christian McCaffrey shared they were expecting their first baby, she detailed how her endometriosis diagnosis may lead to future fertility issues. “I want to have kids, but I want to make sure that I can,” Culpo, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2020 and subsequently had surgery to treat it, shared in a November 2022 episode of The Culpo Sisters. “It could be really hard for me to have babies.”“Endometriosis can affect your fertility in a lot of different ways,” she continued. “You can have endometrial tissue growing near or on your ovaries, it can affect the quality of your eggs, scar your fallopian tubes.”

    Disney/James Clark

    Caelynn Bell Bachelor Nation’s Caelynn shared a candid message about her and husband Dean Bell’s difficulty conceiving in the years since their 2023 wedding.“It’s hard,” Caelynn explained in a March 2025 YouTube video. “I’m putting way less pressure on myself than I was in the first few months of trying.”Although the process has been emotionally challenging, Caelynn is remaining positive as she and her husband get medically tested to “figure out what’s going on.”

    Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock

    Bunnie XoThe wife of country musician Jelly Roll has been vocal about her in vitro fertilization (IVF) journey since June 2024.”We had planned on doing this privately,” she wrote on Instagram, “but decided our IVF journey needed to be shared because we’ve always been so open.”Since then, she has detailed “the emotions, the roller coaster, the worry,” of the medical process on her Dumb Blonde podcast.Despite the challenges, though, she is open to other options to grow her family.“It is tough, but at the same time it’s like, you just put it in God’s hands,” she said on a November 2025 episode of her podcast. “If it’s meant to be it’s meant to be. And if not, we can always adopt.”

    Instagram / Julianne Hough

    Julianne HoughThe Dancing With the Stars cohost has been open about her struggles with endometriosis, a female reproductive disease, and has been working to preserve her fertility for when she feels ready to try and have a baby.In June 2025, she shared that she froze her eggs for the third time.

    Kristin Callahan/Shutterstock

    Whitney PortSince welcoming Sonny with husband Tim Rosenman in 2017, the Hills alum has been candid about the ups and downs of her fertility journey, including her two pregnancy losses and her surrogate’s two miscarriages.In July 2024, Whitney confirmed she’s preparing for a second egg retrieval. “I’m feeling definitely better than my last round because I know a little bit more what to expect,” she shared, “and I just have so much trust and faith in my doctor.” But no matter what happens in their journey to welcome a second child, Whitney has been clear there is nothing lacking in her family of three. “Especially now, as we embark on this fertility journey for number two, I know we are complete no matter what,” she wrote as part of a birthday tribute to her son on his 7th birthday in July 2024. “You are a blessing. We love watching you grow and are beyond grateful for how chill you are.” 

    Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images

    Michelle YeohThe Everything Everywhere All At Once star—who married Jean Todt in 2023 after a 19-year engagement—once opened up about the challenges she experienced trying to conceive with her first husband, Dickson Poon. “I always wanted to have children,” Michelle shared during a podcast appearance in November 2024. “I went and did fertility [treatments] to aid in the process. I think that’s the worst moment to go through is every month. You feel like such a failure.” She continued, “At some point, you stop blaming yourself. There are certain things in your body that don’t function in a certain way. That’s how it is. You just have to let go and move on.”

    Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images

    The rapper, who shares son Wilde with husband Maximillion Cooper, once detailed a heartbreaking pregnancy loss she experienced due to an ectopic pregnancy while filming her sitcom Eve.”It was 2006 when I found out that I was pregnant,” Eve wrote in her memoir Who’s That Girl?. “I had to have emergency surgery and stop filming the show for two weeks. I don’t know why I lied to everyone on set and said that my appendix had ruptured, really. Maybe because I was lying to myself.””If I faced losing my baby, then I didn’t know if two weeks would be enough emotional healing time,” she continued. “In the end, it was barely enough healing time for me physically, before I was right back to work on set. I had lost so much weight after the surgery, and my body was so frail.”

    Kayla Oaddams/Getty Images

    Mary BonnetThe Selling Sunset star, who welcomed her son Austin at the age of 15, has been candid about her and husband Romain Bonnet‘s fertility journey. “We don’t know what the outcome is going to be,” she told E! News in September 2024. “We’re just kind of taking it as it as it comes. I’ve been super busy right now with the book and with the season and everything. So, I know nothing’s going to happen if I’m stressed out and if I’m running around.”And in addition to undergoing a surgery to rectify a septate uterus (when the uterus is divided into two parts by a membrane), Mary said she and Romain aren’t rushing into any decisions—and are happy with their dog.“We have our fur baby though, Thor. Romaine is obsessed with him,” added the real estate agent. “So if it doesn’t happen, he says he’s OK. He’s got his little fur baby, and he is just beyond obsessed. We’ll be OK. What’s meant to be will be.”

    Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images

    Erin AndrewsThe NFL sportscaster and her husband Jarret Stoll, who welcomed son Mack in July 2023, have had their own fair share of ups and downs amid their journey to parenthood—including navigating Erin’s cervical cancer diagnosis in 2017.But having frozen her eggs before her cancer battle, she then underwent IVF to help her conceive a child—an experience she decided to share with the world. “I just was so tired of keeping quiet,” she explained of sharing her struggles in a 2021 essay. “It was such a hard, painful journey. I think I went numb through most of it, because you just feel like a robot and you’re on this really unfair roller coaster that more times out of none, you’re going to get really bad news.” She added, “I’m a vocal person, and I could speak from the heart and just talk about how crappy it was and that I get it for a lot of couples and families that are trying to have a child.” 

    For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App

     ​ 

    Share.
    Unknown's avatar

    Related Posts

    Add A Comment

    Leave a Reply

    Discover more from TheBullPost

    Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

    Continue reading