Tara Lipinski Reveals She's Suffered 4 Miscarriages During 'Heartbreaking and Devastating' Fertility Journey

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Tara Lipinski is sharing a heartbreaking secret about her road to motherhood.On Tuesday, the Olympic gold medalist took to Instagram to reveal that she and her husband, Todd Kapostasy, have been trying to conceive a child since 2018 and have faced a tough fertility journey.

The post led with a picture of Lipinski asleep on the couch, gripping two pregnancy tests.«Well-this will be quite the life update.

I've been keeping a bit of a secret for the last 5 years and that’s definitely been a strange feeling for me. I've always felt so comfortable sharing my life with all of you-so to have gone on this journey privately for half a decade has been isolating to say the least,» the message began. «However I needed that isolation to find a way to cope and to adapt to my new normal.

I was so overwhelmed and wasn't emotionally or mentally ready to bring more people on board. My life turned upside down and became completely consumed by our heartbreaking and often devastating fertility journey.»A post shared by Tara Lipinski (@taralipinski)The 41-year-old former skater revealed that for the last five years, she has undergone multiple unsuccessful rounds of IVF, miscarriages and surgeries, leading to what she calls a lonely infertility journey. «My husband and I have seemingly hit every roadblock imaginable from the moment we began this process in 2018 and since then I have been under anesthesia 24 times, have had 4 miscarriages, 4 D&C's, 6 failed IVF transfers, 8 retrievals and a diagnosis of endometriosis that led me to 2 major surgeries,» she wrote. «It has been an excruciatingly painful journey that has been filled with loss & dealing with the grief that comes along with that.