Volleyball players Juliann Faucette and Carli Lloyd are serving up some truths about parenting and professional sports. In short, moms can do anything. (Except, perhaps, negotiate with an irrational toddler mid-tantrum.)
Because while they each imagined it’d be hard to hit the court after having kids—Carli shares daughter Storm, 4, with husband and fellow volleyballer Riley McKibbin; Juliann is mom to Tre, 5, and 2-year-old twins Ramsey and Ruby—they pretty much aced it.
“In some ways, I am way stronger than I ever was,” Juliann stressed in an exclusive interview with E! News, noting she’s now “more in tune” with her body.”
And though she acknowledged reclaiming your core strength after creating a literal human “takes time—you have to put in the work, obviously, to repair it, you can come back even better.”
As long as you’re surrounded by the right squad.
Because when Juliann first attacked a return to the game, signing a contract to play in Italy roughly six months after having Tre, “Playing and being a new mom was very hard,” she admitted. “Also, truthfully, the team wasn’t very supportive. There just wasn’t a lot of understanding of what postpartum looks like.”
