Olympic gold medalist Lolo Jones got emotional while revealing her decision to undergo IVF just before turning 40. Lolo, who has been very vocal about remaining a virgin until marriage, took to Instagram to open up about her experience with IVF and the regrets she has about not starting a family sooner.
The athlete shared a tearful video with her 572,000 followers along with the caption, “Terrified. 15 days before I turned 40. Nothing has scared me more than feeling like I’m running out of time to have a family”.
Olympian Lolo Jones Gets Emotional While Revealing That She Started IVF At 40: ‘I’m Running Out Of Time’
Lolo continued by saying that she initially wanted to freeze her eggs in her early 30’s, instead she held out hope that she would meet the man of her dreams. “I just kept thinking I will meet my husband and things will all work out. Well here I am almost 10 years later and it hasn’t”. Lolo proceeded to go into more detail about the IVF process while urging other women to be more proactive about freezing her eggs than she was.
“You can be 35 years old and have the egg count of someone who is 25 or you can be 25 years old and already losing your eggs at a high rate,” she explained. “If you know you want to start a family but just can’t do it now maybe for career reasons or you don’t have a husband look into freezing your eggs”.
In an Instagram post from May, Lolo discussed the struggles of dating while maintaining her virginity. She also revealed that she had recently cut ties with a man she had been seeing for eight months. “My heart just couldn’t take it anymore,” Jones detailed in her post. “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… As the years grow I want to be married more and desire badly to have a family of my own. And I just keep getting my heart broke”.
She concluded her post by saying, “I get teased all the time because I won’t have premarital sex” and acknowledges that it has been a major issue when it comes to finding a mate.
Lolo has always been upfront about her desire to abstain from sex until marriage, but she admits that it hasn’t always been easy. During a 2012 interview for HBO’s ‘Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel‘, Lolo likened her abstinence to training for the Olympics, saying, “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. Harder than training for the Olympics. Harder than graduating from college has been to stay a virgin before marriage”.
