Charlotte Flair Reveals Extremely Personal Details About Fertility Struggles
Charlotte Flair shared heartbreaking details about her failed efforts to start a family.
The Queen poured her heart out in a new article she wrote on The Players’ Tribune. The 39-year-old opened up about her struggles in and out of the ring.
One of the subjects the 14-time world champion discussed was her attempts to conceive a child with her ex-husband, WWE Superstar Andrade.
Charlotte Flair revealed that she went through four rounds (five tries) of fertility last year, but was unsuccessful. The SmackDown star explained that the process left her spiritually exhausted.
In February, I started my fertility journey. That’s a complicated topic…… and honestly it’s a topic that society doesn’t make very easy to talk about. But I’m going to try to be open about it here, as much as I can, because it’s not something I’m ashamed of.
I’m not ashamed to say that I feel the pressure of being a female athlete who has 1) a biological clock (one I’m constantly reminded of), and 2) a “happy ending” in mind that involves love, and marriage, and a family of my own. I’m also not ashamed to say I went through four rounds (five tries) of fertility last year, with no luck. And I’m not ashamed to say that that process gutted me, and spiritually exhausted me.
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Charlotte Flair & Andrade Divorced In 2024
The Queen started dating Andrade in 2019. The couple announced their engagement a year later and married in 2022. However, their marriage ended in divorce last year.
Charlotte Flair explained that the stress from her fertility while rehabbing from her serious knee injury at the same time may have impacted her marriage.
I think my rock bottom moment was probably sometime last summer, when I was flying around the country for second opinions (Chicago, San Francisco, New York, I went everywhere).
Around this same time, I developed tendinitis in my knee from going too hard in my rehab, which of course set my rehab back more. And then also around this same time, I went from trying to save my marriage to facing the fact that I was getting a third divorce. And it’s like each thing just fed into the other.
Like: I couldn’t do jumping exercises because of my fertility … but those are exactly the exercises I needed to rehab my knee. Or: It felt like the stress from my fertility had harmed my marriage … but then it felt like the stress from my divorce was now harming my fertility. It was like for an entire year, I just couldn’t win.
Charlotte Flair is currently booked to team up with Alexa Bliss to fight for the Women’s Tag Team Championship at WWE Evolution this Sunday.