“It’s not like we’re taking ovulation tests and trying to hit the [fertile] days every month, but I’m also not traveling 200 days a year and taking sit-out Powerbombs every night,” says Rousey, whowent on hiatus from the WWEearlier this year. “We want to be able to put it out there, in the universe, that we want to start having our family.”
“But we’re also trying not to stress out about it and really enjoy the last of the time that’s just to be me, [Travis] and the boys,” she adds of her husband and his two sons, Kaleo and Keawe. “And however much ofthis time that we get to have, once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.”
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“So we’re really just trying to enjoy the hell out of the time that it’s just us and then we’re enjoying the hell out of the time when we start having babies and making this family even bigger,” Rousey says.
The star tells PEOPLE she was “not at all” anxious about sharingdetails on her road to motherhoodduring the recently wrapped ninth season ofTotal Divas, “because I feel like it’s the kind of thing that people don’t talk about.”
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“That’s why I think so many women are blindsided and don’t know what it’s like when they get to that point in their lives, because it’s taboo and whispered about,” Rousey says.
The athletetied the knot withfellow mixed martial artist Browne, 37, in Hawaii — Browne’s home state — in August 2017, aftergetting engaged the previous April.
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Rousey made her WWE debut atWrestleMania 34in 2018, and was the Raw Women’s Champion. This April, sheannounced she’d be leaving the WWEto focus on starting a family with Browne.
“I’ve not kept it a secret that I would definitely want to start a family,” Rousey toldESPNin January, ahead of her WWE departure. “But how do you go about doing that? I love this way more than I thought that I would. So do you just keep going until you just happen to get pregnant? Or should you stop and go try and get pregnant? Oris going and trying to get pregnant puttingyourself on the spot and then you’re less likely to get pregnant?”
She also tells PEOPLE now that she’s not closing the door on a return to the ring, saying, “I think I need to figure out a different way of doing it. To be able to not have to choose career over family or family over career and kind of find that happy medium.”
“Right now, I think my family needs my undivided attention,” Rousey adds. “I’m happy to give them that. But I’m trying to figure out a way or a system or somehow that I could give bothmy family and WWE the best of meand not be half ass in both.”
source: people.com
