Thankfully, Erin Andrews doesn’t veer away from a sucessful game plan.
Not one to play around with her health, the Fox Sports NFL reporter has “had it instilled from my mom to go to the doctor, go to the dentist, go to the gynecologist,” she detailed in an exclusive interview with E! News’ Francesca Amiker.
Which is why the 47-year-old wasn’t in a Hail Mary situation when doctors gave her the news that she had cervical cancer during the third week of the NFL season in 2017.
“Because I had been so good, I went the year before, I hadn’t missed visits,” Andrews continued, “we caught it early, we were able to treat it and I was able to move on.”
And you better believe she coaches her loved ones to follow that same route.
“I’m neurotic,” acknowledged Andrews of staying on top of both husband Jarret Stoll and their 2-year-old son Mack’s appointments. “I tell my friends, ‘Go get that looked at. I’ve got a doctor for you. Go get that tested.'”
Now she’s adding to that roster, teaming up with insurance provider Aflac for their Check for Cancer movement.
“They really want to increase early cancer screenings in the U.S. by 10 percent in the next decade,” Andrews explained of the company, that is donating up to $1 million for childhood cancer care and research for each person who posts a snap of their check-up.
The idea, she added, is that each time you see a checkered pattern, some plaid, houndstooth, etc., “I want it to shoot off something in your brain, like, ‘I need to set up a doctor’s appointment.'”
As for the Florida native, she’s making a mental note to set up a trip to the dermatologist and confirming she’s all set for her December mammogram.
“I’m a psycho about it,” she acknowledged. Though learning what can happen when you’ve got your head in the game, so to speak, “When I was public about everything I went through, I was blown away with how many people said, ‘Oh my god, I haven’t been to the doctor in, like, three years.’ That’s just crazy to me.”
Not to say she doesn’t understand the Xs and Os of that line of thinking.
“It sucks to go to the doctor, I hate it,” Andrews said. “It also stinks to try to find time. You also don’t want to deal with bad news. So people put it off and then they put it off again.”
But if she were calling the play, “It’s just trying to tell people, stay on top of this, for yourself, for your family, for your health.”
As a veteran sportscaster, she’s used to speaking up, both about, say, Kansas City’s chances to head back to the Super Bowl and her “crappy” ongoing journey to expanding her family.
Before writing that first op-ed in 2021, “I had been pretty quiet about my infertility journey,” she admitted, “but people know. I mean, I’m in my 40s, I’d said I wanted kids, we weren’t having kids. It was like, ‘What the hell is going on?'”
So after her “eighth time trying, or ninth,” she said of her many rounds of IVF before she and Stoll welcomed Mack with the help of a surrogate, “I just was like, ‘This sucks.'”
And as she attempts to add to her team, Andrews has continued with full transparency, revealing in May that her surrogate had suffered a miscarriage.
“I have dealt with this befor,” she acknowledged on an episode of Calm Down with Erin and Charissa, “but things were going really, really well and her little heartbeat and her numbers were really good.”
The journey toward that metaphorical end zone is certainly anxiety-inducing, she told E! News in March, noting, “There’s a lot of PTSD from the loss that we’ve had, but we also know the end result is really fun.”
She joins a whole squad of stars who have spoken about their fertility struggles. Keep reading to learn their stories.
Bella Robertson
The Duck Dynasty star and husband Jacob Mayo have been open about why it’s important for them to give insight into their fertility struggles on her family’s new reality series.
“We share the story of infertility in the show and that’s something that we haven’t really shared publicly that much, but that’s something that others just don’t know.” Bella said in a joint May 2025 interview with Jacob for Us Weekly. “When you just look at someone on social media, you can’t know what anyone’s going through.”
For them, it not only “felt right” but allowed the pair to be their “authentic selves on this new show.”
Olivia Culpo
Two years before the former Miss Universe and Christian McCaffrey shared they were expecting their first baby, she detailed how her endometriosis diagnosis may lead to future fertility issues.
“I want to have kids, but I want to make sure that I can,” Culpo, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2020 and subsequently had surgery to treat it, shared in a November 2022 episode of The Culpo Sisters. “It could be really hard for me to have babies.”
“Endometriosis can affect your fertility in a lot of different ways,” she continued. “You can have endometrial tissue growing near or on your ovaries, it can affect the quality of your eggs, scar your fallopian tubes.”
Caelynn Bell
Bachelor Nation’s Caelynn shared a candid message about her and husband Dean Bell’s difficulty conceiving in the years since their 2023 wedding.
“It’s hard,” Caelynn explained in a March 2025 YouTube video. “I’m putting way less pressure on myself than I was in the first few months of trying.”
Although the process has been emotionally challenging, Caelynn is remaining positive as she and her husband get medically tested to “figure out what’s going on.”
Julianne Hough
The Dancing With the Stars cohost has been open about her struggles with endometriosis, a female reproductive disease, and has been working to preserve her fertility for when she feels ready to try and have a baby.
In June 2025, she shared that she froze her eggs for the third time.
Whitney Port
Since welcoming Sonny with husband Tim Rosenman in 2017, the Hills alum has been candid about the ups and downs of her fertility journey, including her two pregnancy losses and her surrogate’s two miscarriages.
In July 2024, Whitney confirmed she’s preparing for a second egg retrieval.
“I’m feeling definitely better than my last round because I know a little bit more what to expect,” she shared, “and I just have so much trust and faith in my doctor.”
But no matter what happens in their journey to welcome a second child, Whitney has been clear there is nothing lacking in her family of three.
“Especially now, as we embark on this fertility journey for number two, I know we are complete no matter what,” she wrote as part of a birthday tribute to her son on his 7th birthday in July 2024. “You are a blessing. We love watching you grow and are beyond grateful for how chill you are.”
Michelle Yeoh
The Everything Everywhere All At Once star—who married Jean Todt in 2023 after a 19-year engagement—once opened up about the challenges she experienced trying to conceive with her first husband, Dickson Poon.
“I always wanted to have children,” Michelle shared during a podcast appearance in November 2024. “I went and did fertility [treatments] to aid in the process. I think that’s the worst moment to go through is every month. You feel like such a failure.”
She continued, “At some point, you stop blaming yourself. There are certain things in your body that don’t function in a certain way. That’s how it is. You just have to let go and move on.”
Eve
The rapper, who shares son Wilde with husband Maximillion Cooper, once detailed a heartbreaking pregnancy loss she experienced due to an ectopic pregnancy while filming her sitcom Eve.
“It was 2006 when I found out that I was pregnant,” Eve wrote in her memoir Who’s That Girl?. “I had to have emergency surgery and stop filming the show for two weeks. I don’t know why I lied to everyone on set and said that my appendix had ruptured, really. Maybe because I was lying to myself.”
“If I faced losing my baby, then I didn’t know if two weeks would be enough emotional healing time,” she continued. “In the end, it was barely enough healing time for me physically, before I was right back to work on set. I had lost so much weight after the surgery, and my body was so frail.”
Mary Bonnet
The Selling Sunset star, who welcomed her son Austin at the age of 15, has been candid about her and husband Romain Bonnet‘s fertility journey.
“We don’t know what the outcome is going to be,” she told E! News in September 2024. “We’re just kind of taking it as it as it comes. I’ve been super busy right now with the book and with the season and everything. So, I know nothing’s going to happen if I’m stressed out and if I’m running around.”
And in addition to undergoing a surgery to rectify a septate uterus (when the uterus is divided into two parts by a membrane), Mary said she and Romain aren’t rushing into any decisions—and are happy with their dog.
“We have our fur baby though, Thor. Romaine is obsessed with him,” added the real estate agent. “So if it doesn’t happen, he says he’s OK. He’s got his little fur baby, and he is just beyond obsessed. We’ll be OK. What’s meant to be will be.”
Erin Andrews
The NFL sportscaster and her husband Jarret Stoll, who welcomed son Mack in July 2023, have had their own fair share of ups and downs amid their journey to parenthood—including navigating Erin’s cervical cancer diagnosis in 2017.
But having frozen her eggs before her cancer battle, she then underwent IVF to help her conceive a child—an experience she decided to share with the world.
“I just was so tired of keeping quiet,” she explained of sharing her struggles in a 2021 essay. “It was such a hard, painful journey. I think I went numb through most of it, because you just feel like a robot and you’re on this really unfair roller coaster that more times out of none, you’re going to get really bad news.”
She added, “I’m a vocal person, and I could speak from the heart and just talk about how crappy it was and that I get it for a lot of couples and families that are trying to have a child.”
