Tara Lipinski Welcomes 1st Child Via Surrogate

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00:00 Tara Lipinski is officially a mom.

00:02 The 41-year-old Olympic gold medalist

00:04 revealed to People in an interview

00:06 published on October 25th

00:08 that she and her husband, Todd Capistossi,

00:11 have welcomed a baby girl named Georgie via surrogate.

00:14 The former professional figure skater

00:16 shared her excitement for this new chapter of her life,

00:19 telling the mag, "I dreamt about this for so long,

00:22 "a crying baby, sleepless nights.

00:24 "Even when I'm like, 'Okay, take an hour nap,'

00:27 "I'm almost too excited.

00:28 "I'm like, 'She's there, just watch her a little longer.'

00:31 "It's the best tired I've ever been."

00:34 On October 3rd, Tara took to her Instagram

00:36 to reveal the exciting news

00:38 that she and Todd were expecting.

00:40 Penning in the caption, "Big news!

00:42 "We are slowly catching you up

00:43 "to present day on the podcast.

00:45 "Episode 12, we made some pretty big moves.

00:48 "After our immune testing results,

00:49 "we decided to take one of our own biological,

00:52 "genetic embryos and give it to a surrogate.

00:54 "We matched with a heaven-sent surrogate, Mikaela,

00:57 "and we received a positive pregnancy test."

00:59 The happy announcement followed Tara's candid conversations

01:02 about her fertility journey,

01:04 which she has discussed during her and Todd's podcast,

01:07 Tara Lipinski Unexpected.

01:09 During a September episode,

01:10 the retired athlete revealed

01:12 how she found out their last baby,

01:14 whom they had conceived naturally

01:15 after five years of unsuccessful IVF treatments

01:18 and multiple pregnancy losses, didn't have a heartbeat.

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