Olympian Lolo Jones, who is well-known for her accomplishments in track and bobsledding at both the Summer and Winter Olympics, recently came out about the challenges she has as a 40-year-old virgin. She said that being a virgin has had a detrimental affect on her love life. In the past, she has spoken about her virginity as a “gift” that she intends to give to the man who would eventually marry her. Despite this, she is now considering the possibility of undergoing IVF treatment in order to realize her ambition of starting a family and achieving her lifelong goal.
Jones has been open and honest about her decision to lose her virginity for a number of years now, documenting the process in a variety of interviews and postings on social media. In the beginning, she spoke about how hard it was to keep her virginity before she got married. She said that it was the most difficult obstacle she had ever had to overcome, even more difficult than the strenuous training she had to do to compete in the Olympics or getting through college.
However, as time went on, Jones came to regret being so open about her virginity. She felt that it hampered her ability to date and made it more difficult to form meaningful relationships as a result of her decision. She said that in the past, she would approach the subject with prospective partners in a reserved manner, looking for the appropriate time to share this private facet of her life. She was attempting to find the ideal timing to do so.
Jones was concerned that the fact that she had never had sexual intimacy would have held her back in her athletic career, in addition to the effect that it had on her love life. She said that she sometimes felt as if she was competing at a disadvantage because of her belief that sexuality may provide certain benefits on female athletes.
At the moment, Lolo Jones is reorienting her attention on achieving inner serenity in her life. She said that one of the things that she does that she finds to be quite peaceful is gardening. She takes things one day at a time and compares her strategy to that of the legendary football player Tom Brady, who prior to his retirement from the game had a mentality quite similar to hers. Jones, who has had a fantastic career in sports, is now trying to find some peace of mind and is considering becoming a mother via the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF).