RONDA ROUSEY broke down in tears when discussing her fertility heartache.
Rousey – a legend and former champion in both the UFC and WWE – is married to former fighter Travis Browne.
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Ronda Rousey emotionally broke down in tears when discussing her fertility heartacheCredit: @TheDiaryOfACEO / youtube
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Rousey revealed her heartbreak of suffering two miscarriagesCredit: @TheDiaryOfACEO / youtube
Together, they share daughter La’akea, born in 2021, while Browne has two sons from a previous marriage.
But Rousey revealed her heartbreak of suffering two miscarriages in 2019 during an episode of Diary Of A CEO.
She fell pregnant a week before filming an episode of 9-1-1, where she almost lost a finger while filming her own stunts.
Rousey, 37, said: “I found out I was pregnant right before the show started filming, and then my finger got chopped off from a boat door falling on it.
“We went and got checked out, the baby seemed fine, but then I had a miscarriage a couple of weeks later, so I always kind of felt like that was my fault.
“I wanted to keep doing dangerous stuff while I was pregnant because I thought that made me cool.
“Then I was just depressed and drinking and smoking and not taking care of myself, then I got pregnant right away again, and then we never even saw a heartbeat that time.
“But I wasn’t expecting anything more because I just wasn’t taking care of myself during that time.”
Rousey and Browne – who married in 2017 – have been trying for more children after welcoming La’akea.
But the retired Olympic judo champ broke down in tears as she discussed her ongoing ongoing IVF journey.
Rousey said: “I went through IVF, four cycles of IVF to be able to get eight embryos because we wanted to have like three or four kids.
“And the first one that we used actually worked. That’s, you know, La’akea, my daughter now.
“But yeah, we’re in the process of doing it right now, and I just got news yesterday that our first cycle didn’t work.”
She said: “It’s tough. Anyone going through it is tough, and like people just don’t talk about it.
“But, you know, it’s hard because you have so much hope every time. And yeah, I don’t know. I’ll just have to wait till the end of this book tour to try again. But I was really hoping to be pregnant today.
“But, you know, it’s the kind of thing that like nobody talks about. So, and so do so many women think they’re going through it alone.
“But it’s really, really common. But it’s just really hard when things don’t work out.”
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Rousey’s baby daughter, La’akea, was born in 2021Credit: Instagram/Ronda Rousey
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Travis Browne and Rousey married in 2017Credit: Getty
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The American moved to the WWE after leaving the UFCCredit: Splash News
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Rousey is a former UFC championCredit: Getty Images – Getty