Olympian Tara Lipinski Had Four Miscarriages In 5 Years, Will Open Up About Her IVF Struggles In New Podcast

Tara Lipinski is the latest star getting candid about her struggles with infertility.

The 41-year-old former Olympic figure skater has been trying to get pregnant with her husband, Todd Kapostasy, for quite a few years and Tara is calling in “the fertility journey from hell.”

Speaking to People in a new interview, Tara opened up about how she’s had four miscarriages over the past five years.

“When I started IVF, I thought, ‘How amazing is this, we’re just going to have a little football team of embryos there waiting for us whenever we decide to get pregnant,’ ” she shared with the outlet. “And that certainly was not the case when we started. It’s been a long and winding journey full of failure after failure after failure.”

Tara added that it’s just “been years of facing almost every obstacle you can in the world of IVF. There’s so many different moments that I look back on where I thought, ‘Oh, we’re there, we’re nearing the end.’ And it just never got there for us.”

“In the last five years, I’ve been under anesthesia 24 times, had four miscarriages, four D&Cs [dilation and curettage], six failed transfers, eight retrievals and was diagnosed with endometriosis with two subsequent major surgeries,” she says. “My life revolved around doctor appointments and procedures.”

At one point, Tara says she had back to back miscarriages in 2022.

“One miscarriage was heartbreaking but four made me feel like a shell of myself,” she revealed. “After the second miscarriage, I stopped crying. There were no more tears left. I just felt numb.”

It’s a conversation that she and Todd will be having in depth in a new podcast. It will debut on August 29.

Tara also shared why she’s now opening up and sharing their infertility story with the world.

“I just wasn’t emotionally or mentally able to. I was so overwhelmed and struggling day-to-day that I wasn’t in a place to bring other people in and that thought really scared me,” she says.

Tara isn’t the only one to open up about her IVF struggles. Just recently, Jennifer Aniston has talked about her own story, and Kourtney Kardashian also tried it before her pregnancy.