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Bobsledder and Olympian Lolo Jones is openly discussing her decision to take charge of her fertility path. She wishes someone had shared this information with her when she was younger.
In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Juju Chang, the 40-year-old American hurdler expressed her desire to have children in the future.
Jones said:
Jones is no stranger to difficulties, having participated in not one, but two Olympic sports — bobsledding at the Winter Games and hurdles at the Summer Games — on the Olympic stage.“Being a good mom is very difficult, especially in today’s society. And so, it has me nervous. Like, do I have the capabilities, the skill set to care for someone? But I’d like a chance.”
After years of looking for a spouse, Jones made the decision to take control of her personal life and her journey to parenting. She began learning how to freeze her eggs.
She added:
“You keep having hope that you’re gonna meet someone and then every year that goes by, you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m not, like, meeting my husband,’ like, you start to get more anxious. And then here’s the crazy thing about all this.
I have been crashing a bobsled at 90 miles an hour. … I’ve had hamstring injuries, spine surgery, and nothing was more terrifying than starting to even look up the process of egg freezing.”
Since then, Jones has opened the door and is letting fans and followers on social media have a close-up view of the freezing process for eggs.
“People undertake this treatment if they’re trying to get the ticking time clock out of their head, trying to take the stress off of their dating decisions and be able to really feel like they might have an insurance policy in the freezer,”
Dr. Ellen Goldstein, a fertility specialist and medical director of Beverly Hills Fertility, told “GMA.”
For the egg-retrieval process, Jones had to give herself multiple hormone injections for 11 days in a row before undergoing surgery to extract the eggs.
Jones’ doctors have helped her retrieve 27 eggs, 17 of which were determined to be mature and viable for fertilization in the future. Goldstein, who wasn’t involved in Jones’ treatment, said:
“With numbers like that, she has much higher statistical power of having a success with that group of eggs.”
But even with the 17 eggs, the road ahead isn’t a promised one. Jones further said:
“This is the thing about egg freezing that people should know: It is not a guarantee to have a kid.”
The eggs can be frozen and stored without a loss in quality, granting Jones more time to date. The Olympic athlete has been open about keeping her virginity until marriage and said she wants to become a parent with a partner.
“Trust me, I’ve been on some amazing dates, it just … has not worked out. But if the right person is for me, they will be willing to stick through it all. I want a guy who’s gonna love me through it all,”
Jones added.
She has been extremely upfront about her dating life over the years, admitting that she is a virgin and plans to remain so until she gets married.
She wrote a lengthy post on Instagram in May detailing her most recent dating difficulties and being candid about the test of faith it has been to continually have her heart broken while looking for love and marriage.
The three-time World Champion wrote in her post:
Jones claimed to have prayed to God for assistance in finding a "Godly" guy to marry.“Tonight I blocked the guy I was talking to for 8 months. My heart just couldn’t take it anymore. He gave me so many mixed signals. He would talk about marriage and kids but then keep me in the friend zone. He would never make time to see me. My heart is so heavy.”
She continued by saying that if a husband wasn't in her future, she once prayed to God to take away her desire to get married.
She ultimately wants to get married and start a family of her own, and despite the criticism she faces, that desire only grows.
She claims:
“I get teased all the time because I won’t have premarital sex. Guys will [direct message] me that I’m old. I’m washed up I should just put out already. So I’m just crying out.
Where are you God? Your word says John 14:14. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. I’m asking God to please honor the desire of my heart.
Your word says two are better than one. Ecc 4:9-12 I’m just asking God to honor my heart because faith is hurting right now. I’m tired of getting teased. I’m asking God my father, my protector, my provider please show up. Please honor me.”
Jones has been talking about wanting to wait until she gets married to have sex for some years now. Almost a decade ago during an interview on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, she said her virginity was a “gift I want to give to my husband.”
“There’s virgins out there and I want to let them know that it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,”
she said during the segment.
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