Tara Lipinkski and husband Todd Kapostasy, who share 2-year-old Georgie, announced that their surrogate experienced a pregnancy loss with their second baby.
By Daysia Tolentino May 01, 2026 5:09 PMTags
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Tara Lipinski has a heartbreaking family update.
The 43-year-old announced that her surrogate experienced a pregnancy loss while carrying her and husband Todd Kapostasy’s second baby.
“A few months ago, we lost our baby in the second trimester,” Tara shared in a May 1 Instagram post alongside a photo of a heart-shaped box. “We’ve been on our second surrogacy journey for two years now. Our first surrogate, who carried Georgie, wasn’t medically cleared to proceed with our sibling journey. I grieved that ending and we started over.”
The Olympic gold medalist, who welcomed 2-year-old Georgie in 2023, described the difficulties that her family faced during this latest pregnancy, saying, “From the long road in finding a surrogate, to medical clearance setbacks, to a failed transfer, and now this loss… it hasn’t been an easy road.”
She expressed gratitude toward her surrogates, saying she will “forever be connected” to both of them.
“I feel incredibly lucky for the woman who carried our baby (our angel) who will always hold such a special place in my heart,” she continued. “And for our first surrogate, who has continued to support me from afar through this second journey.”
Tara has been open about her own struggles during a five-year fertility journey, experiencing four miscarriages, 24 surgeries, eight egg retrievals and six failed transfers.
“Being confronted with so much loss and grief and failure constantly, it really took us a long time to get a win,” she told E! News in June 2024. “So you just feel like you're repetitively getting hit and knocked down. And it's like, how do you just get back up and try again?"
Motivated by her own story, Tara has become an outspoken advocate for those experiencing infertility, most recently traveling to Capitol Hill to speak with congresspeople about making in vitro fertilization (IVF) more accessible.
“Great to meet Tara Lipinski and share our infertility journeys. It's clear that IVF is out of reach for too many,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz wrote in a Facebook post on April 23. “Congress must take up and pass my HOPE with Fertility Services Act to make IVF accessible and affordable. Nobody deserves to be held back from having a family.”
While her announcement came several months after the pregnancy loss, the figure skater said her trip to Washington, D.C. had served as a catalyst to open up about this latest experience.
“I realized I had to do it,” Tara explained in her recent post. “I was tearing up reading so many messages from women sharing their vulnerable stories and fears, I just knew now is the time."
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