When she skated onto the ice that night, Lipinski was ranked in second place.
She said, “I decided to take a break and officially stop skating.
I had my first real relationship, went on vacations, and just experienced life.”
Her decision to take time off was brought on by a torn hip cartilage that she finally addressed surgically.
As she told Canada’sCBC News, by the time she underwent surgery, Lipinski had cartilage overgrowing the bone.
on Nickelodeon, and even a part in the film “Vanilla Sky.”
She explained, “To be honest, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to do it initially.
Once I started doing it, I took it very seriously.
I filmed a couple days a week.
I was an outsider, so I didn’t know everyone, but it was a good experience.”
That makes sense, as she had been calling ice rinks home since she was incredibly young.
And thus, a truly genius commentating team was born.
They proposed their pairing to NBC, who gave them a trial.
As Lipinski toldGQ, that was all they needed.
In 2017, she married her boyfriend of two years, sports producer Todd Kapostasy.
Luckily, Lipinski’s own experience on the ice makes her a natural for executive producing the docuseries.
