Why, yes, Erin Andrews will have fries with that. In a chat with E! News, the sportscaster shared her secret sauce for dealing with disappointment during her decade-long fertility journey.
In the throes of her decade-long fertility struggle, safe to say Erin Andrews wasn’t lovin’ her myriad doctor appointments.
But the legendary sportscaster did come up with a delicious post-game strategy that helped ease a sliver of her and husband Jarret Stoll‘s frustrations.
“My fertility clinic was right by McDonald’s, and we were always getting bad news and my appointments were always so early in the morning so I could deal with my work,” Andrews detailed in an exclusive interview with E! News. “So, it was like, ‘A sausage biscuit with two hash browns, thank you very much.’ And I would eat and cry in my car and call my husband: ‘It didn’t work again, but this sausage biscuit is so good.’”
It’s a successful play she’d recommend to anyone dreading their next appointment.
“Go to the doctor, cross that off your checklist,” she suggested. “I know it sucks, but think about the great fast food meal you’re going to have, which is probably totally counterproductive with going to the doctor, but that’s the way I got through crappy fertility visits and cancer visits. I went straight to the drive-thru and I’m like, ‘I’ll have a large, thank you.’”
And now she’s ready to coach others through the process.
Nearly a decade after the 46-year-old discovered she had cervical cancer following a routine OB-GYN visit, “What I found out after that whole journey was it was a darn good thing that I went to go get checked, because it was treatable,” Andrews said of undergoing multiple surgeries before she was declared cancer-free. “We had caught it early enough.”
And so she’s eager for others to follow her game plan, teaming with AstraZeneca and Hockey Fights Cancer for a national public health campaign that stresses the importance of getting body checked against cancer.
“There’s a lot of reasons why people try to stay away from this,” acknowledged Andrews, who’s releasing a limited edition screen-themed t-shirt through her WEAR By Erin Andrews brand. “They don’t have time, they forget, or they just are so anxious they don’t want bad news. And I get all that.”
Though she keeps up with twice-a-year mammograms and other cancer screenings, she still finds herself putting off appointments . “But you just need to do it,” Andrews insisted, “because you want to walk out of there with a peace of mind and like, ‘Oh my god. Why did I put this off?’”
While the Fox Sports NFL reporter spoke about her cancer battle shortly after the 2016 diagnosis, she was initially hesitant to share the Xs and Os of her fertility battle.
“People in my life knew I was going through it and I think people figured out I was in my 40s, that we didn’t have a kid, things like that,” said Andrews. “But it wasn’t until I was in a waiting room, I think our eighth try, and I was just so sick of it. I was just like, ‘These waiting rooms are packed. Why am I being so embarrassed and quiet about this?’”
Though former NHL center Stoll, 42, was hesitant to pass around the details of their journey, which led to the June 2023 arrival of son Mack with the help of a surrogate, “When we did,” shared Andrews, “the text messages and the support we got of people being like, ‘We get it,’ were really awesome.”
And if that means she has to answer a few questions about her surrogacy process during a day on the slopes, so be it.
“I was getting fitted for ski boots two weeks ago, and this woman was like, ‘Oh, my god, your whole surrogacy journey,’” Andrews recounted of one recent interaction. “And I said, ‘Yeah, listen, it’s not the way you want to go, but it was the most amazing experience of our life, and we’re so grateful. And, here’s the number to the group we were a part of.’ You want to spread the good news and what helped us out, because you understand that it’s a crappy place to be, and it feels so lonely.”
These days, though, it feels very much like she’s winning.
“There’s a lot of PTSD from the loss that we’ve had,” Andrews acknowledged, “but we also know the end result is really fun.”
Dressed in a sweat suit and a backwards hat for a recent Target outing, “He’s a minature Larry David,” Andrews cracked of Mack. The toddler’s lists of interests include books and stickers and “as much as his father tries to put a hockey stick in his hand, he’s at the age where we are throwing balls and sounding like Rob Gronkowski.”
So, yes, they’re having a ball with their tiny teammate. But the highlight reel of their relationship is plentiful. Check out Andrews’ sweetest moments with her husband of seven-plus years.
Cancer survivor Erin Andrews and her husband Jarret Stoll attended an event for the The Women’s Cancer Research Fund.
The couple attended the Stagecoach Music Festival together back in 2017 where they enjoy their favorite genre of music, country.
The sports loving couple dressed up in black and white as they attended the 2014 ESPY Awards.
The good looking pair attended an clothing launch party together in 2014.
Just after Jarret took home his second Stanley Cup title with the Los Angeles Kings, Erin helped him celebrate as they held the large trophy in this pic.
The couple couldn’t take their hands off each other at the Amazon Prime Summer Soiree in 2015.
The duo took their adorable puppy, Howard, to the beach in this shot Erin captioned, “#nationaldogday How How always has a straight arm.”
Erin shared this adorable shot of her and her new fiancé after he proposed at Walt Disney World in 2016.
The pair matched in leather jackets and white t-shirts as they walked the red carpet at the Fanatics Super Bowl Party.
“June 24th was so perfect! Can we do it again next wkd?” Erin captioned this adorable shot of the newly married couple.
The couple rang in the holiday together in Big Sky, Montana, the location of their 2017 nuptials.
Source: www.eonline.com