{"id":161164,"date":"2025-11-03T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/161164\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:46:09","slug":"mary-earps-interview-ex-england-goalkeeper-says-ive-not-written-the-book-to-tear-anyone-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/161164\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Earps interview: Ex-England goalkeeper says ‘I’ve not written the book to tear anyone down’"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Earps told the BBC<\/a> she felt “ready and happy to share” that she is in a same-sex relationship with her partner Kitty.<\/p>\n

She says her time at Wolfsburg in 2018-2019 helped her see things differently, and though when she met Kitty it was “confusing”, she is proud of their relationship.<\/p>\n

“I don’t see sexuality as linear. I don’t label things. It’s being brave enough to say ‘yes, this is my relationship and I’m proud of that – I’m not ashamed’,” added Earps.<\/p>\n

“I have always tried to keep my relationships private but that isn’t realistic when you’re writing a book of integrity and authenticity.”<\/p>\n

During the 2023 Women’s World Cup, Earps reveals in the book that Kitty had a row with the goalkeeper’s dad after hearing “hurtful things” about their relationship.<\/p>\n

Earps worried if her family would ever accept Kitty in that moment.<\/p>\n

“My family mean a great deal to me and so does my relationship. There were difficulties we had to navigate but we’re through that now, thankfully,” she added.<\/p>\n

Having a family of her own has also been something in Earps’ mind for a few years and she has frozen her eggs for later use in fertility treatment.<\/p>\n

“It was a crazy, invasive process. I would love to be a mum and have a family but I love playing football,” said Earps. <\/p>\n

“Some players go off and become pregnant which is their right and they do a fantastic job. I would prefer not to do that. I want to, hopefully if the universe allows it, have a child later down the line.<\/p>\n

“There were a few questions that I couldn’t answer. You are pumped with hormones for X amount of days and then you have the procedure.<\/p>\n

“There is general medical advice but it would be great for there to be research around specific athletes. Is there a certain loading or exercises you should be doing? Should you avoid certain things?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, Earps told the BBC she felt “ready and happy to share” that she is in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-161164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115487964344094979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}