Jarret Stoll and Erin Andrews
Getty ImagesErin Andrews and her husband, Jarrett Stollthey don’t always see eye to eye when it comes to sharing their personal lives with the public.
“My husband would prefer us not to be so public — for me not to be so public,” Andrews, 46, said Success magazine in an interview published on Friday, January 10.
As the couple, who married in 2017, navigated their fertility journey, the idea of keeping it private came up. “He was just like, ‘Why do we have to say this?’ And I said, ‘Because these waiting rooms are crowded,'” she explained.
Andrews has been candid about it for years her fertility journeysharing in 2021 essay Bulletin that she was subjected to “prolonged and emotionally draining” treatments from the age of 35. In July 2023, the couple welcomed their first child, son Mack, via surrogate.
Now the couple is thinking about adding another child to their family. “We’re talking about trying again,” Andrews said AND! News in October 2024. “I was really, really honest with my doctor a few weeks ago. I just said, ‘We’re so excited with the birth of Mack and his brilliance that I don’t want to go back to that place of failure and I’m really, really scared of that.’ “
Before Mack was born, Andrews lost two embryos. “It’s crazy, because when you get on the phone with your fertility doctor again and start talking about the trip again, the PTSD comes back, about how bad you felt, how your body goes numb, just the fear of losing,” she said. he said.
Andrews noticed that she and Stoll, 42, were leaning on each other through an emotional processhelping each other by sharing their feelings.
Update, 7/14/23. at 11:36 a.m. ET: Days after welcoming her son, Erin Andrews opened up about the terrifying complications her surrogate faced during the birth. Recalling the situation during the Friday, July 14, episode of her “Calm Down With Erin and Charissa” podcast, the sportscaster, 45, said it was “a little urgent (…)
“Sometimes men don’t want to talk about these things, but they feel these feelings, too,” Andrews said. “My husband was really, really great after we were going through more downs than ups, he just said, ‘This is bullshit. This is just not great. I feel really crappy and I feel like a failure,’ and that really helped a lot.”
While managing her work commitments and parenting duties, Andrews shared that she is still finding the right work-life balance. “I was talking about it on a walk with my husband last night when we were walking our dog – we have a lot,” she told Success magazine.
Andrews said the start of the NFL season is when her life “goes completely crazy” with her work. “Besides, it’s a Super Bowl year,” she said. “We are Tom Brady in our broadcast team this year. So that will be a lot.”