Martina Navratilova's most cancers battle delays adoption plans, says spouse Julia Lemigova

During the second a part of the hit Bravo actuality present’s reunion, “Actual Housewives of Miami” star Julia Lemigova opened up about how her spouse, tennis legend Martina Navratilova‘s double most cancers analysis had put the pair’s adoption plans “on maintain.”

Lemigova mentioned adoption has been placed on the again burner whereas her spouse undergoes remedy for stage 1 throat most cancers and breast most cancers. “If you’re adopting a toddler, it needs to be concerning the baby. And proper now it is the whole lot about Martina and for her getting (wholesome). We’re placing it on maintain,” she informed host Andy Cohen.

The previous Russian mannequin went on to say that watching her spouse, whom she wed in 2014, undergo remedy was emotional. “Even the unhappy moments appear to be so not vital,” Lemigova mentioned.

Martina broke the information in January

Navratilova introduced her two most cancers diagnoses in January, telling followers that each had been found within the early levels. “This double whammy is severe however nonetheless fixable, and I am hoping for a good end result,” the tennis Corridor of Famer mentioned in a press release to the Girls’s Tennis Affiliation. “It will stink for some time, however I will struggle with all I’ve bought.”

Navratilova beforehand had breast most cancers in 2010 however was deemed cancer-free after a lumpectomy and 6 months of radiation. Nevertheless, the latest double analysis has put a halt to the couple’s adoption plans.

“We had been considering any second the company would name and provides us the completely happy information that we had been going to have a child,” Lemigova defined. “As a substitute, we’re preventing two cancers. Like one shouldn’t be sufficient. I am simply ready for Martina to get higher.”

The couple had been fairly near adopting a toddler, and the information of the most cancers analysis has understandably been a troublesome blow for them. Nevertheless, Lemigova is decided to place their plans on maintain and deal with Navratilova‘s well being for now.

“We’re not enthusiastic about adoption. We’re enthusiastic about Martina,” she mentioned. “We’ll simply have to attend and see what occurs.”

Navratilova received 59 Grand Slam titles general, together with 31 in ladies’s doubles and 10 in blended doubles. She was one of many extra dominant gamers within the Seventies and 80s, claiming 18 Grand Slam singles titles. She retired in 1994, after a file 167 singles titles and 331 weeks at No. 1 within the WTA rankings, however returned to the courtroom on a number of events in 2000.