Inside Erin Andrews’ rollercoaster life from Peeping Tom scandal to long infidelity battle, becoming mom and NFL fame
ERIN Andrews' unbridled joy in becoming a first-time mother has come after a decade of personal heartache which has included infertility struggles, a cancer battle and a Peeping Tom scandal.
Earlier this week, the Fox Sports sideline reporter and her husband, former NHL player Jarret Stoll, announced they had welcomed a baby son with help from a surrogate mother.
It came after a "time-consuming" and "emotionally draining" 10-year fertility battle, which included seven rounds of IVF treatment.
Erin was only able to have a child of her own after deciding to freeze her embryos at a young age as she was later diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2016.
That cancer diagnosis came shortly after she settled a $55million lawsuit against a Nashville hotel and a stalker, after she was secretly videotaped naked several times in 2008.
Erin suffered years of private turmoil as her broadcasting career went from strength to strength, moving from ESPN to Fox Sports and hosting Dancing with the Stars on ABC.
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But now after fulfilling her dream of becoming a mother, the 45-year-old can put some of those personal struggles behind her.
Here is a look at Erin's rollercoaster life from covering Super Bowls to launching her own clothing line and her long journey to parenthood.
From NFL sidelines to Dancing With The Stars
A graduate of the University of Florida, Erin began her career as a freelance reporter for Fox Sports Florida in 2000 and a Tampa Bay Lightning reporter for the Sunshine Network.
After joining Turner Sports in 2002, her big break came in 2004 when she joined ESPN, initially as an NHL reporter before expanding her role to cover college basketball and college football.
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When she extended her contract, she hosted the first hour of ESPN’s College GameDay and was a features reporter for the full three-hour program.
In 2012, Erin – who had been named America's sexiest sportscaster by Playboy magazine in 2007 and 2008 – left ESPN for Fox Sports, who had actively sought her services.
In the past decade at Fox, Erin has become an integral part of some of the network's biggest events, including three Super Bowls and two World Series.
In addition, she has covered numerous Thursday Night Football and Sunday afternoon NFL games and served as the host of Fox's college football pregame show.
In 2022, Erin became the first female recipient of the Pat Summerall Award, and she has also been awarded the Vince Lombardi Award of Excellence and a Gracie Award.
A versatile broadcaster, after taking part in Dancing With The Stars in 2010, Erin co-hosted the ABC celebrity talent contest alongside Tom Bergeron from 2014 until 2019.
Erin also had a cameo in the 2012 Adam Sandler comedy That's My Boy and since 2021 she has hosted the Calm Down podcast with fellow Fox host Charissa Thompson.
Happy ending after years of infertility struggles
Erin and Jarrett, a two-time Stanley Cup champion, began dating in 2012 and married five years later.
Aged 39, Erin's quest to have a child with Jarrett was made that much harder after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2016.
She had a successful surgery a few weeks after the diagnosis and did not need to undergo a hysterectomy.
While Erin was still able to conceive naturally, she thankfully had frozen her embryos years earlier “just because it was all the rage.”
Nonetheless, Erin and Jarrett still struggled to have a child of her own and went through seven failed IVF treatments over a number of years.
“I’ve been going through these treatments since I was 35 years old,” she wrote on Facebook's Bulletin in 2021.
“I’m now 43, so my body is kind of stacked against me.
"I have been trying to do IVF treatment for a while now, but sometimes it doesn’t go the way you want it. Your body just doesn’t allow it."
She added that, like many other women, she put becoming a parent on hold to further her career.
“It’s so common that people are starting families late and put so many other aspects of their lives on hold," she said.
"You could go through this whole experience and get absolutely nothing out of it.
"That’s the crazy part. It’s a ton of money, it’s a ton of time, it’s a ton of mental and physical anguish.
"And more times than not, they’re unsuccessful.”
But now after years of heartache, Erin has finally become a mother at the age of 45.
Little is known about her newborn but according to Page Six, the child's name is Mack.
Devastating Peeping Tom scandal
Erin's lowest point came in 2008 when a stalker, Michael David Barrett, followed her to a hotel in Nashville and filmed her while nude by altering the peephole in the door to her room.
A hotel employee had told Barrett which room Erin was staying in, allowing him to book a room next door.
The footage was put online in 2009 and shared widely, with one computer scientist estimating that 16.8 million people had seen images from the video.
Erin brought a $75million lawsuit against Barrett as well as West End Hotel Partners and Windsor Capital Group – the two companies that manage the Nashville Marriott – claiming ongoing emotional distress from the episode.
In an emotionally-draining trial in 2016, Erin was awarded $55million while Barrett was jailed for 20 months.
After an appeal, the case was later settled for an undisclosed amount but that incident continues to affect her until today.
“It’s on the Internet now,” she said.
“And I’ve been told it’s going to be on the Internet until I die.”
Erin said at the trial that while her career continued to flourish afterwards, she had changed as a person, becoming more bitter and less trustful.
“It’s horrible,” Erin later told Sports Illustrated.
“Anytime I’m in a situation where I feel like I’m being stared at, I’m paranoid, I get defensive, I’m on edge.
"I’ve created this situation where I always wonder, 'Has that person seen me naked?'”
Burgeoning business career
As Erin's public profile has grown so has her business career.
In 2011, she signed a deal with ticket marketplace StubHub to promote a new female-targeted promotional program called Girls Night Out.
Soon after that she partnered with cosmetic company CoverGirl and fitness chain Orangetheory Fitness.
Her most successful project so far has been her Fanatics-backed Wear by Erin Andrews clothing line which began in 2019.
Initially created in partnership with the NFL, it has since expanded to the NBA, NHL, MLB and select NCAA schools.
“I was looking at what was available to women and felt like women would appreciate more options out there," Erin told People.
“We thought, ‘Let’s place logos down at the bottom of the sweatshirt, let’s put them on the drawstrings, let’s place it on the sleeve!’
"We wanted to make a line of apparel that people can wear everywhere and anywhere not just on game days.
"They could wear it out to lunch, they could wear it to a game and not feel out of place when they go to dinner with it on or go to a bar with it on."
Erin added that her cancer diagnosis made her pursue her fashion dreams.
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“It makes you kind of not take every day for granted and want to live your life to the fullest," she said.
"As cheesy as it sounds, that has a lot to do with this clothing line."