Tara Lipinski’s daughter Georgie Winter has some really big skates to fill!
The newborn may only be seven weeks old, but her former Olympic champion figure skater already says she won’t be forcing Georgie to follow the same path.
“I feel it’s a lot of pressure! I feel that it is a lot,” said the new mother (41) during a guest appearance on Show Jennifer HudsonMonday, when asked if she thought her daughter would take up 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 told Husdon, 42. “But I hope she finds something of her own that I don’t have to follow in my mom’s footsteps.”
That didn’t stop Lipinski from dressing her little girl in a skating-themed newborn photoshoot and Halloween costume made to look just like the sparkly jumpsuit she wore when she competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics. “You see, I say, ‘Oh, she won’t skate, and I have her in skates,'” joked Lipinski.
Tara Lipinski in ‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’.
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Lipinski and her husband Todd Kapostasy welcomed daughter Georgie via surrogate in late October, revealing their happy news exclusively to PEOPLE.
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“I’ve dreamed about this for so long,” she said.
The sports star also said that she was very excited to experience everything that motherhood brings. “Crying baby, sleepless nights. Even when I say, ‘Okay, take an hour nap,’ I’m almost too excited. I say, ‘She’s here. Just watch her a little longer.’ ”
Lipinski added, “The most tired I’ve ever been.”
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Tara Lipinski in ‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’.
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The husband and wife duo, who married in 2017, 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 pregnancy journey.
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“We’ve had a long, five-year journey and it’s been so hard because I’ve had so many pregnancy losses along the way,” she said. “I am going through IVF and trying to get more embryos to try to get pregnant again. It was so isolated and I felt so alone.”
Lipinski went on to explain why they ended up using a surrogate to carry their daughter. “We finally found the reason why I couldn’t carry the pregnancy and used a surrogate with one of our embryos. And now we have a little girl,” she told Husdon.
She happily added: “It’s a long way, but we have a little girl, she’s seven weeks old.” I wake up every day with this surreal feeling that it really happened.”
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Tara Lipinski in ‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’.
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The athlete, who alongside Johnny Weir is a sports reporter for NBC, told PEOPLE in October that infertility taught her a tough lesson. “It made me realize that sometimes life just isn’t fair,” she said. “For so long I thought, ‘Oh, you get a win, you lose, it all evens out.’ As a skater, I could train harder, push myself. But when it comes to infertility, there are things you can’t change.”
After years of trying to conceive successfully, Lipinski, who suffers from endometriosis, and Kapostasy learned that there was a reproductive immunity problem that would cause her body to reject their fertilized embryo. “I went through four pregnancies, four miscarriages, four D&Cs [dilation and curettage, an often painful procedure to remove pregnancy tissue from the uterine lining],” she said.
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After her last miscarriage, “It was like, ‘Okay Tara, you’ve exposed your body enough.’ Then I decided to think about other options.”
She formed an instant bond with her surrogate Mikayla, who became pregnant with one of the couple’s fertilized eggs earlier this year. During Georgie’s birth, “I had Dave Matthews’ ‘You and Me’ playing and I couldn’t stop sobbing. Then the baby came out, and it was such a relief,” she said. – I felt like I could breathe again.
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