Tara Lipinski Says Second Surrogacy Ended After Second-Trimester Loss
tara lipinski said on May 1 that her surrogate lost the baby in the second trimester. The announcement came after two years on a second surrogacy journey that already included medical clearance setbacks and a failed transfer.
May 1 After Two Years
“A few months ago, we lost our baby in the second trimester,” she wrote in a May 1 Instagram post. “We’ve been on our second surrogacy journey for two years now.”
That timeline matters because the loss was not a single setback inside an otherwise smooth process. Lipinski said the road included finding a surrogate, medical clearance setbacks, a failed transfer, and then the pregnancy loss.
Georgie And The Reset
Lipinski and Todd Kapostasy share 2-year-old Georgie, and she said their first surrogate, who carried Georgie, was not medically cleared to continue with their sibling journey. “I grieved that ending and we started over,” she said.
She added, “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.” The sequence shows how a second attempt that began with a family plan ended in another reset instead of a transfer to a later stage of pregnancy.
Five-Year Fertility Journey
Lipinski has been open about a five-year fertility journey that included four miscarriages, 24 surgeries, eight egg retrievals, and six failed transfers. In June 2024, she said, “Being confronted with so much loss and grief and failure constantly, it really took us a long time to get a win.”
That history makes the May 1 disclosure more than a personal update; it is another turn in a long, public fertility story. She said her trip to Washington, D.C., served as a catalyst to speak openly about the loss, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz wrote on April 23 that she met Lipinski and shared infertility journeys.
“I feel incredibly lucky for the woman who carried our baby (our angel) who will always hold such a special place in my heart,” Lipinski wrote. For readers following her family’s story, the immediate takeaway is plain: the second surrogacy journey has been interrupted again, and Lipinski is choosing to speak about it now rather than wait for a later, quieter moment.
