Longtime NFL commentator Erin Andrews said this week she’s attempting in vitro fertilization again to try for another baby. (Watch the video below.)
The Fox Sports reporter, who turns 48 next month, acknowledged the low chance of success but told her “Calm Down” co-host Charissa Thompson she was determined.
Andrews noted that she recently missed a CO2 laser skin treatment “to try IVF again” but “it didn’t work.”
“Here’s my whole thing,” Andrews explained. “I am crazy, and I am with a doctor that said, ‘Listen, we’ll call it when it’s time.’ But I, like, am psychotic right now. 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 shit in me that I’m like, wait, watch, watch me do it,” she continued. “It’s like a weird addiction I have. ‘I’ll show you.’”
Thompson retreated to a football metaphor, noting that her friend was in “the fourth quarter” with 2 minutes left. Andrews joked it was more like “OT,” short for overtime.
Thompson pointed out that her tenacity led to Andrews and her husband, former NHL star Jarret Stoll, welcoming son Mack, who was born via a surrogate in 2023. “You’ve already won,” Thompson said.
According to People, Andrews was treated for cervical cancer in 2016 and married Stoll the following year when she already had frozen embryos with him.
After what the magazine deemed a “9-year-fertility journey,” Mack arrived.
Thompson told Andrews on Tuesday that if it becomes clear it’s time to stop trying, “then I know you’ll be at peace with it because you’ve tried everything” and will “not beat yourself up.”
