Alex Morgan Shares How She Decided to Tell Her Teammates She Is Pregnant and Retiring: 'It Was a Lot'

Mar. 15, 2025

Alex Morgan and husband Servando Carrasco.

Alex Morganis opening up about how she decided to tell the rest of her team that she is pregnant – and retiring from the sport.

The now-retired soccer star, 35, appeared on a new episode ofKylie Kelce’spodcastNot Gonna Lieand shared that she wasn’t sure when to tell the rest of her USWNT teammates that she is both pregnant and hanging up her soccer cleats.

“Going through the first months of pregnancy this time around was so rough because I was getting crazy migraines, like super nauseous, so tired,” Morgan shared.

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“And we were flying to Panama, playing in 95 degree weather where it’s like 100% humid,” she continued. “We were going through all of these coaching changes and there was so much stress involved outside of this, and then I’m figuring out how I’m gonna tell everyone that I’m retiring and I’m pregnant and I’m done playing soccer for good.”

“It was a lot, and I just feel like I would hold it together the moment I would enter the training facility. And the moment I would leave, it was just like I needed my bed, like now. I was not a real human at the time.”

In October, Morgan told PEOPLE thather pregnancy was a “surprise” for her and Carrasco, and it forced her to move up her retirement plans.

“We’re just really looking forward to expanding our family,” the two-time World Cup champion said. “We’ve wanted to do this for a while, but we obviously wanted to find the right time. It came a few months earlier than anticipated, as the pregnancy was a little unexpected, but looking back I’m really grateful for how everything worked out.”

source: people.com