US soccer great Carli Lloyd shares IVF journey to get pregnant: 'It truly is a miracle'

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U.S. soccer legend Carli Lloyd opened up about her struggles with infertility and using in vitro fertilization (IVF) to get pregnant as she announced she will be having her first child.

Lloyd detailed her pregnancy journey in an article for Women’s Health. She opened up about the disappointment she felt for months trying to get pregnant while also feeling as though she was in a "race against the clock—my 40-year-old biological clock."

Lloyd wondered why her body was "failing me" after treating her body like a temple for years as she helped the U.S. women’s soccer team to World Cup titles and Olympic gold medals. She started her IVF journey in April 2023 but suffered a roadblock when she was told three embryos made it after she had 20 eggs retrieved.

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Carli Lloyd attends PaleyLive: A Conversation With FOX Sports: FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 at Paley Center For Media on June 12, 2023 in New York City. (Joy Malone/Getty Images)

"So it was a waiting game that we literally had no control over," she added. "And it’s hard. I felt all the emotions during my career—stress, worry, fear, anxiety—but I’d never felt all the emotions that IVF brought on. I felt completely out of control. It’s an indescribable roller coaster unless you go through it."

Lloyd said she hoped to be able to get pregnant and be able to work the Women’s World Cup "and everything would be absolutely perfect." She conveyed it was far from that.

She said she and her husband, Brian Hollins, waited until October 2023 to try the embryo transfer. She said she did all the things she needed to try and help the transfer go