Olympian Tara Lipinski and her husband, Todd Kapostasy, announced that their surrogate recently suffered a pregnancy loss.
“I didn’t think I was ready to share this yet. If you’re part of this community, you know how sharing in the moment can break you,” Lipinski, 43, wrote via Instagram on Friday, May 1. “Sometimes just writing it down or saying it aloud makes it feel that much more real. It takes so much to pick yourself up and start over, and keep pushing.”
The retired figure skater revealed that she and Kapostasy, 42, “lost [their] baby in the second trimester” several months earlier. (The couple, who wed in June 2017, previously welcomed daughter Georgie via a gestational carrier in October 2023.)
“We’ve been on our second surrogacy journey for two years now,” Lipinski wrote on Friday. “Our first surrogate, who carried Georgie, wasn’t medically cleared to proceed with our sibling journey. I grieved that ending and we started over. From the long road in finding a surrogate, to medical clearance setbacks, to a failed transfer and now this loss. It hasn’t been an easy road.”
She added, “I feel incredibly lucky for the woman who carried our baby (our angel) who will always hold such a special place in my heart. And for our first surrogate, who has continued to support me from afar through this second journey. We will forever be connected.”
The Traitors season 4 star further referred to a loss in the second trimester as “devastating.”
“Something new to add to the long list of heartbreaks we’ve endured on this fertility journey,” Lipinski said. “Another memory that will be hard to erase. That appointment will be etched in my mind forever as well as all the steps that came after when a pregnancy is that far along. My heart goes out to all the people who have experienced miscarriage, baby loss and stillbirth. You are warriors.”
Lipinski has since found solace in other individuals who experienced similar “hard” losses, which inspired her to announce the news.
“Putting blinders on can sometimes feel a little easier and doing it publicly always feels daunting,” she said of continuing to work amid the pregnancy loss. “I did it once, and I can do it again.”
She added, “I was sitting on the plane home from DC after speaking to legislators on Capitol Hill to advocate that IVF should be accessible to all, and I realized I had to do it.I was tearing up reading so many messages from women sharing their vulnerable stories and fears, I just knew now is the time.”
