Hope Solo says a 'miniature soccer team is on the way' as she proudly reveals she's pregnant with twins after enduring miscarriage last year
Hope Solo is all set to become a mother. The 38-year-old soccer star was co-hosting the beIN SPORTS Weekend Winners show when she revealed that she and husband former NFL player Jerramy Stevens are expecting a boy and a girl.
Solo proudly announced the happy news in one segment of the show shared on Twitter, saying, “Yes, my husband and I get to practice equality from the very beginning with one boy and one girl."
“Miniature soccer team on the way,” she added, while sweetly rubbing her growing belly.
Solo retweeted the clip on her account with boy and girl baby emoticons. The merry news came just months after Solo revealed she had sustained a heartbreaking miscarriage with twins.
Speaking to Elle in a wide-ranging interview for their July issue, Solo revealed she was running for president of the United States Soccer Federation (USFF) when she suffered the loss back in February 2018.
Solo and Stevens had been trying to get pregnant for a while at the time. The former US Women’s National Soccer Team goalkeeper was in a lot of pain even a week after miscarrying, when doctors explained to her she'd actually been pregnant with twins but that one of the eggs was considered an ectopic pregnancy.
“The doctor said I was hours from dying,” she told Elle. “They ended up having to remove my fallopian tube.”
Solo explained to the magazine that she began the process of in vitro fertilization soon after suffering the devastating loss, and remained strong through it all.
Solo described to Elle how it was having to put animals down in her Greensboro North Carolina home when they would get hurt, and even recalled her past experience of dealing with wildfires and coyotes.
“We see life and death very often,” she said. “So much of what we do can be catastrophic if we make mistakes. It’s not for the faint of heart.”
