Tara Lipinski’s daughter is already following in her footsteps.
Whereas internet hosting the 2024 Prevagen U.S. Determine Skating Championships over the weekend, the gold medalist, 41, introduced her 3-month-old daughter Georgie alongside as she gave commentary from beside the rink. On Sunday, Lipinski shared just a few candy pictures and clips from the occasion on her Instagram that includes her child woman.
In a single clip, the Olympic determine skater introduces her daughter through the broadcast, who wears a light-weight pink onesie and a pink headband. “That is Georgie Winter. She has her personal sparkle microphone,” the proud mother says, holding up a tiny microphone that matches her personal.
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“And he or she’s actually feeling her tv debut everyone,” one other announcer says from off-camera.
Lipinski additionally shared a photograph from the second, zooming in on her daughter’s tiny microphone.
The proud mother shares her daughter with husband Todd Kapostasy, 40.
In October, Lipinski introduced that she had welcomed her first daughter after sharing her lengthy journey to motherhood in her podcast Unexpecting.
“I dreamt about this for therefore lengthy,” she instructed PEOPLE on a sunny afternoon in her front room, whereas Georgie napped close by. She was enthusiastic about all the things mothering a new child has to supply. “A crying child, sleepless nights. Even after I’m like, ‘Okay, take an hour nap,’ I am nearly too excited. I am like, ‘She’s there. Simply watch her just a little longer.”
Lipinski added “it is one of the best drained I’ve ever been.” She and Kapostasy, a producer and director, whom she wed in 2017, could not assist however take inventory of their present bliss, one thing they feared may by no means come.
After years of attempting for a profitable being pregnant Lipinski, who suffers from endometriosis, and Kapostasy discovered there was a reproductive immunology difficulty the place her physique would reject their fertilized embryo.
“I went by way of 4 pregnancies, 4 miscarriages, 4 D&Cs [dilation and curettage, an often painful procedure to remove pregnancy tissue from the uterine lining],” she stated.
She shaped an on the spot connection together with her surrogate Mikayla, who turned pregnant with one of many couple’s fertilized eggs early this yr. Throughout Georgie’s start, “I used to be taking part in Dave Matthews’s tune ‘You and Me’ and I couldn’t cease sobbing. Then the infant got here out, and it was a lot aid,” she stated. “I felt like I might breathe once more.”