At 35, Tara Lipinski has competed in the winter Olympics, won a gold medal in the ladies’ singles competition, and been cast in film and television roles. But despite all she’s accomplished, none of it compares to her relationship with husband Todd Kapostasy.
“As much as I love to work and be busy and I’m always traveling and my schedule’s kind of insane, I have such a strong urge to balance that out and have a normal life and spend time with my husband,” the Olympian turned NBC analyst told The Cut. “It’s so important to me to wake up in the morning and, have what we call ‘coffee time,’ where we have coffee together.”
After meeting at the Sports Emmys in May 2015, Kapostasy a Fox Sports producer, proposed to Lipinski that December. The couple wed last July at the historic Middleton Place plantation in Charleston, South Carolina.
“I think as much as I love skating, love everything that I’ve accomplished, love working in television, being married trumps all of that, and it’s been really nice to have that balance,” she said.
And now that the PyeongChang winter games have wrapped, where she and BFF Johnny Weir served as commentators for the figure skating events, Lipinski and Kapostasy likely have their post-Olympic plans already figured out.
“We definitely block off all of our nights to spend together,” she shared. “I try to get done with work as soon as I can, just because I’m so excited — I still get those butterflies — to see Todd. Either we have a date night or we’re bingeing Netflix or whatever it is.”
Lipinski became the youngest winner of an individual Olympic event in history at the age of 15 during the 1998 Nagano games.