When Alex Morgan obtained her lookalike Barbie doll, she was excited to point out her daughter — till she noticed her response.
The retired soccer star, who’s presently pregnant together with her second child with husband Servando Carrasco, appeared on Kylie Kelce’s podcast Not Gonna Lie and shared that Mattel beforehand made a Barbie doll of her in any case her success within the sport, which she was joyful to provide to her now 4-year-old daughter Charlie.
“Within the 15 years that you just had been on the nationwide crew, you had been such an icon that you just even had a Barbie product of you?” Kelce asks.
“I did. A Barbie I gave my daughter when she was like, 5 months outdated, and she or he bit the top off,” Morgan responds.
“Naturally,” Kelce says. “Naturally,” Morgan agrees.
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In September, the longtime U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Group star concurrently introduced her retirement from soccer whereas additionally telling the world she’s pregnant together with her second baby in a bombshell video, days earlier than enjoying the ultimate aggressive recreation of her profession with the NWSL’s San Diego Wave FC.
A month later, Morgan instructed PEOPLE that the being pregnant was a “shock” for her and her husband, and it compelled her to maneuver up her plans for retirement.
“We’re simply actually wanting ahead to increasing our household,” the two-time World Cup champion mentioned. “We have wished to do that for some time, however we clearly wished to search out the correct time. It got here a number of months sooner than anticipated, because the being pregnant was a bit of sudden, however wanting again I am actually grateful for a way all the things labored out.”
On the time, Morgan mentioned she felt “a bit of bit extra ready” for her second being pregnant, after giving delivery to her and Carrasco’s first daughter Charlie in 2020.
“I am in a special place now the place I simply need the very best well being for the child and myself, and never trying to get again to being knowledgeable athlete however nonetheless desirous to dwell a really wholesome life-style,” she mentioned. “I nonetheless to today work with the dietician and it is extraordinarily useful, as a result of it provides me the solutions I want with out having to attempt to determine them out myself and undergo trial and error.”
