Erin Andrews explains why she feels confident her body is ready for extra round of IVF.
Erin Andrews is determined to grow her family. The NFL sportscaster revealed that she just underwent another round of in vitro fertilization (IVF) injections after years of infertility following her 2017 cervical cancer diagnosis. Even though they "didn't work," she seems unfazed.
“Here's my whole thing: I am crazy,” on the April 14 episode of their podcast, Calm Down With Erin and Charissa, Erin and cohost Charissa Thompson made jokes. “And I am with a doctor that said, ‘Listen, we'll call it when it's time.’”
“But I am psychotic right now,” the 47-year-old chuckled. “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 s--t in me that I'm like, ‘Wait, watch. Watch me do it.’”
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Erin's tenacity astounded Charissa, who said she knew her friend would "keep going" until someone told her that it was "impossible." And she was aware that Erin's "tenacity" was the reason she and husband Jarret Stoll welcomed son Mack via surrogacy in 2023.
“There was plenty of roadblocks that got in the way of him,” Charissa remarked, “and you were like, ‘Nope, I'm doing it.’”
“When there is somebody that you trust and have listened to that says, ‘Hey, this is actually—there's not another shot,’” Charissa continued, “then I know you'll be at peace with it, because you've tried everything up into that point. But like I've told you before, you've already won. You have a beautiful baby.”
Erin has not held back when discussing the challenges she has encountered during her IVF journey, particularly how she handled some of the heartache.
“My fertility clinic was right by McDonald's, and we were always getting bad news,” in 2025, she told news sources, “and my appointments were always so early in the morning so I could deal with my work.”
“So, it was like, 'A sausage biscuit with two hash browns, thank you very much,’” she went on. “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.'"
The reporter is happy to share so much of her journey, even though it has been a difficult one.
"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,” Erin added. "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?'"
And after she did eventually discuss it, “the text messages and the support we got of people being like, 'We get it,' were really awesome."
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