Seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, 37, and his girlfriend Anna Hansen are expecting a baby. What makes this amazing is that Lance is recovering from testicular cancer, the treatment for which makes most men infertile. It is rare to recover your fertility following chemotherapy and surgery. Lance’s three children with ex-wife Kristin Richards were conceived using sperm frozen prior to his treatment, using artificial fertilization.
Cycling legend Lance Armstrong — a survivor of testicular cancer — and girlfriend
Anna Hansen are expecting a baby, CNN learned Tuesday through his charitable organization.The baby is due in June.
Armstrong was diagnosed in 1996 with testicular cancer that had spread to his brain, lungs and abdomen. He underwent treatment for the disease and was able to return to cycling, eventually winning seven consecutive Tour de France races.
The harsh chemotherapy left him unable to have children, although he and then-wife Kristin Richards had three children using sperm the cyclist had donated before the treatment. Armstrong and Hansen, however, are expecting without the use of any artificial fertilization process.
“This is a hopeful thing for testicular cancer survivors,” CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said. “It means his body healed from the chemotherapy and surgery.”
Lance seems to enjoy using twitter, which Village Voice thinks is official. He has yet to mention the baby news on twitter. He does talk a lot about cycling and working out though, making it a kind of dull twitter account for me.
Lance is currently training for his comeback in the 2009 Tour de France. It is going to be hard work for Lance making a comeback, raising his three older children and a new baby all at once. We wish him the best of luck.
Note by Celebitchy: I bet this was an “oops” pregnancy because Lance assumed he was infertile and they weren’t taking precautions. Congratulations to Lance and Anna on the happy news.
Lance Armstrong is shown at Ante up for Autism on 10/3/08 and at the Clinton Global Initiative on 9/24/08. Credit: PRPhotos
i can’t help but wonder, has she been faithful and is it really his? if he really had these kinds of obstacles. i’m just sayin.
I did read elsewhere that it was an unplanned pregnancy, and both are incredibly happy it happened. 🙂
Wow, those are some powerful boys he has!
Lance — demand a paternity test!
HE DID INVITRO FERTILIZATION another site is reporting. Which would only make sense. The dr.s helped so of course they know it is his. Good for them.. modern technology helping so many couples.. awesome !! He had his sperm frozen before chemotherapy.
This is suprising, considering he JUST broke up with KH (in relative time-to-have-a-baby timeline time anyway).
He’s said to be racing in this year’s Amgen tour, maybe I’ll meet him then. Meh.
I’m with C|B. They probably thought they were OK because he was infertile. Then when she became pregnant, “It’s a miracle!!!”
He’s so nauseating. I don’t even want to think about his testicles.
I thought he and Sheryl Crow broke up because she wanted kids and he didn’t?
I didn’t even know he was dating anyone. Wasn’t he just with Kate Hudson like a couple of months ago?
He’s a one-nut wonder.
coming soon to maury… 😉
I call shenanigans.
The baby will likely grow up in a broken home since Lance isn’t known for relationship longevity and he’s only been dating this new one since July. So that will make four children living in a single parent home with no father present except for visitation.
Dante, ha!
Cancer survivor, one-nutter, or not, Lance is a douche.
He is miraculous in many ways, but, relationships aren’t one of them. Any baby is a miracle and blessed event tho.. I’m glad he has brought much money & awareness to cancer. He is a jerk otherwise.
Sheryl Crow’s gotten be thinking, “Whew — bullet dodged…”
Amazing news. I am worried for my sister who has to undergo chemo if at 29, she will lose her fertility to chemo. Glad he was able to regain his after his ordeal.
Gigohead, if my sister were undergoing chemotherapy I’d be worried for her LIFE, not her fertility. The latter is really trivial given the stakes. I’m sure you realize that but it really doesn’t come across in your post.
I dunno about him being happy…he seems to like whoring around. I remember reading also that some of his breakups were over having kids. Wonder if he’ll dump her before or after the baby is born…
According to the doctors who treated my husband for cancer (lymphoma), the chemo would render him infertile. While a very small number of patients who received the massive amount of chemo known as a bone marrow transplant had gone on to have children, the doctors privately doubted the paternities of those kids.
Sorry, Lance.
he won the tour 7 times, not 4.
Sounds like someone is trying to take Lance for a long, expensive bike ride. Even though I don’t like him, he should still demand a paternity test.
I can’t imagine this being a planned pregnancy considering his track record. He doesn’t stay with one woman for long.
Gigohead…never forget that if you publicly pose the idea that not becoming a mother would be a sad and life-changing thing for a lot of women…you will be accused of all manner of insanity. Apparently…discussing the sadness of your sister’s fertility loss…on a thread about fertility loss…is tantamount to saying that you don’t care if she lives or dies if she can’t make babies.
Emotionality always intrudes where the uterus is concerned, you know.
I understood you, However, and I’m sorry for your sister’s sadness over it. Adoption, fostering, and all sorts of options are available for her if she REALLY wants to mommy.
Best wishes.