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She is one of our biggest skiing heroes ever.
Now a completely new life awaits Charlotte Kalla – as a mother.
The 35-year-old now admits the great anxiety during the pregnancy.
As many times as Charlotte Kalla exceeded all expectations and brought so much joy to the Swedish people during the winter months. She is one of our biggest skiing heroes ever and can look back on a very successful career on the slopes.
Called career
She won everything there was to win with Olympic gold, WC gold and overall victory in the Tour de Ski during her career. But last year she chose to put her skis on the shelf for good and start a whole new chapter in her life as a retired skier.
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Right now we get to follow Kalla with dancing shoes on as one of the participants in the TV4 program “Let’s Dance”. But alongside the television cameras, a whole new life is growing inside her.
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The happiness of pregnancy
It was in February that Charlotte announced that she and her partner are expecting a child together. The ski icon is about to become a mother for the first time and now opens up about her feelings about it.
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The 35-year-old describes the pregnancy as a dream come true.
– I have never taken for granted that I will become a mother. It is important that there is more talk about this taboo, that it is not a matter of course for everyone to be able to become parents. There can be both a mental and physical strain behind it, but sometimes you might not find the answer there either, she says in an interview with Amelia.
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Obvious concerns
Kalla admits that because of the skiing career, a lot of anxious thoughts came in connection with the couple deciding to have children.
– For me, it was not obvious that it would work, because I have had irregular periods during my skiing career. It didn’t stop when I stopped skiing. No, it took patience to get pregnant, says Charlotte.
Once the news became reality that she was pregnant, it came as an extremely happy surprise.
– Yes, it did. Even though my period didn’t appear, I didn’t think it was real. It was hard to accept that I was really pregnant because I didn’t feel any classic pregnancy symptoms, she says in an interview with Motherhood.
But there was also a clear anxiety amidst the great happiness of becoming parents. Charlotte Kalla now admits it and opens up about the tough thoughts that arose.
– If we were allowed to keep the child. It was kind of hard to dare to hope too much, she says.
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