
Lance Armstrong is going to be a dad again. He and Anna Hansen, his girlfriend of five months are reportedly expecting.
Lance had his swimmers frozen after his 1996 diagnosis of testicular cancer. His three children, Luke, Isabelle and Grace were conceived through in-vitro fertilization. But this kiddo has come about the old-fashioned way. Usually, testicular cancer treatment kills sperm. They aren’t supposed to survive like some sort of nuclear fallout cockroaches.
When Lance and Sheryl Crow broke up a couple of years ago, it was because they were in different places in their lives. After the split, she went on to adopt a baby boy which is awesome. But now Lance is going to have a child with this new girlfriend. It reminds me of my first true love. We were together for over five years and I wanted to marry him. And he just wasn’t ready. I respect honesty and I’m pretty egotistical so I couldn’t be with a guy who didn’t really, really want to marry me. So I left. I Googled him not too many years later to find out he was, of course, married. So it wasn’t that he didn’t want to be married; he just didn’t want to be married to me. Which sucked. In Sheryl’s case, hopefully she sees that this wasn’t about a conscious choice to have kids as much as it was about some damn, fucking resilient, stealth super-sperm.
Congrats to the couple. Sometimes the best things come from the unexpected.