♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, mow low jones. the three-time olympian speaking out on her desire to be a mom. >> i really want this. >> candidly sharing her fertility journey she began on her own at age 40. our exclusive interview, her urgent message. if you could go back in time and talk to your younger self, what would you say? >> i'd scream to that younger self, do it when you're 25. do it before you hit 30. katrina babies. a rare documentary taking a look at the youngest, sometimes forgotten victims, the children. >> i never realized how much

trauma and baggage we were holding on to. >> adults unpacking and sharing their trauma for the first time. >> have you ever talked about this before this. >> no. i haven't. and sister act. serena and venus, the dynamic duo back on center court at the u.s. open. could it be their final grand slam appearance together?

♪ thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with three-time olympian lolo jones, speaking out in an exclusive interview about freezing her eggs. her desire for a family and a life partner. an all too relatable quest. but what she discovered, she says, shocked her into sharing it with others. >> i've been crashing a bobsled at 90 miles an hour, i've hit hurdles, hamstring injuries, spine surgery. nothing was more terrifying than starting to even look up the process of egg freezing. >> reporter: lolo jones is one of the few women who's competed in both the winter and summer olympic games. heartbreakingly missing out on olympic medals. >> lolo jones gets a hurdle and did not get a medal. >> reporter: but now she's setting her sights on a new prize. >> i really want a family.

i've waited for my husband for seven years. >> why do you think being a mom has been such a big goal of yours? >> being a good mom is very difficult. especially in today's society. it has me nervous. like, do i have the capabilities, the skill set, to care for someone? you know? but i'd like a chance. >> you want to be a mom? >> i want to be a mom, yeah. >> reporter: earlier this month as her 40th birthday loomed, lolo candidly sharing her 18 require with 500,000 followers on instagram. >> i'm about to turn 40. all the stress on me right now. >> it was really to the point where i'm going on these dates and i'm like, ugh, do i -- we don't really click, we don't really vibe, but do i settle for the sake of trying to have a kid? >> you were willing to settle for less because you thought you were running out of time this. >> yeah. absolutely. i mean, it's just -- and it's -- it's really hard when you hit 40. >> reporter: lolo took a step to give herself more time.

sharing with her followers that she was freezing her eggs. >> it's one thing to do this privately. what made you want to share it? >> so -- i know. why did i decide to share this? because i wish someone had shared this with me years ago. i honestly -- i'm on the brink of waiting too late. >> so if you had that time and r younger self, what would you say? >> i would scream at that younger self, do it when you're 25. do it before you hit 30. >> reporter: lolo now hoping to help others harness their fertility. >> a simple blood test than tell you your fertility levels. why did i wait years to do that? why? >> when you talk about approaching 40 or being over the age of 35, i want to be crystal clear. in terms of gynecology and obstetrics, women's best eggs are in their early 20s. what elective egg freezing does

is it dramatically expands the decades or time period by which a woman can have her biological child. >> reporter: egg freezing involves removing eggs from a woman's ovaries that can later be used for in vitro fertilization, ivf. >> i'd put this needle on top, i would inject it, basically either the left or right, i would rotate. and then -- >> that first injection was kind of startling? >> it was intense. >> it was intense, that's a good word. >> i definitely did that wrong. >> my hand was shaking. i got the needle halfway in. the medicine, like -- it was a nightmare. >> reporter: she showed us how for 11 days she repeated this process, all to prepare for her egg retrieval. since 2009, the amount of women freezing their eggs in the u.s. each year has gone up over 3,000%. but all of this gets expensive.

one round of egg freezing can cost around $10,000. but increasingly, employers are helping foot the bill. 1 in 5 big companies include egg freezing in their insurance coverage. >> egg freezing may not feel accessible to everyone, but information and kind of that empowering conversation about egg freezing, i would argue it's exceptionally accessible and needs to happen more. >> reporter: dr. neil chapel has been taking lolo through this intense process. how did lolo first come to you what were her goals? >> we talked about how many kids she wanted. she's not currently with a partner but she wants the opportunity for future children. at the time she was 39. so we knew that she was approaching another one of those soft landmarks, one of those steeper declines in the hill. >> reporter: lolo joining a chorus of celebrities that have spoken publicly about their fertility journeys. >> any time a public figure shares any part of a mental or physical issue publicly, it does so much good for people's

awareness, people's education, for destigmatizing certain conditions. >> why do women carry so much baggage around this? >> even as i started to hit 35, i'd go on dates with guys, they'd be like," are you even fertile?" there's such a stigma on older women that they have no fertility that they're worthless. >> reporter: online, lolo's vulnerability has received some fierce backlash. >> fellas, she ain't worth it, don't feel sorry for her. this is a bad investment. what do you say to these folks? >> if they're already coming at you with that, they have no baseline of the truth at all. >> reporter: but many women see their own stories reflected in lolo's. >> when i saw lolo jones and her journey and what she was going through, it completely reminded me of my own journey. >> reporter: we first met dierdre diener in 2019. you wrote that you woke up at 42 and suddenly, the dream of motherhood had slipped through your fingers.

>> yeah. >> how did that happen? >> being a single mother by choice, i've met a lot of women that have the same story. so for me it was, i believed that it would be there. and i thought, i'll find the guy, we'll have the white picket fence, it's there. but right now i'm on my career path. and unfortunately it was like, well, wow -- life just fast forwarded -- now i'm 42. is it even a possibility? >> reporter: dierdre decided to pursue motherhood on her own using ivf. >> a person that i had worked with in a previous life, he said, are you doing the right thing for the child by having a child on your own? i'm like what do you mean by that? >> what did you say? >> this kid is going to be loved greater than any other child in the world, full stop, end of story. >> reporter: her own eggs not viable. dierdre turned to donor eggs. ten days after her ivf procedure, dierdre gets the phone call she's been waiting

for. >> congratulations. >> oh my gosh! >> you are pregnant. you are very pregnant. your level looks great. >> you have made my life. i hope the news continues, it's very early. >> i felt like a unicorn. literally like -- i can't -- this is so surreal. >> reporter: dierdre gave birth to her daughter in october 2018. naming her kelsey, which means "brave." we first got to meet her when she was 6 months old. >> do you want to say hi to juju? here she is. >> reporter: today, kelsey is 3. >> well, my life is pretty grand. we are living our best lives in every possible way. this journey and my life today was so worth every penny i spent, every bit of time i spent in those doctors' offices. and, you know, anything that i put my body through, i would do it again, 100%. hands down.

>> reporter: determined to preserve her chance at motherhood, lolo awaited the results of her procedure. so with lolo, how many eggs were you able to retrieve? >> 27. >> that's a lot. >> she did fantastic. of the 27 that we had, 17 were mature. so 17 will be able to be fertilized once they're thawed and present her the potential for growing an embryo that can be intubated. she's an olympian in every sense of the word. >> reporter: even with 17 eggs on ice, the realization that the road ahead may still be long. >> this is the thing that people should know, it is not a guarantee to have a kid. >> reporter: but for now she has more time to find the man of her dreams. >> it is hard to find a good-looking, funny, vibes chemistry-wise, then add, oh, but i also want you to love jesus and go to church. like, where's the unicorn? >> you've been very public about

maintaining your virginity. >> yes. >> is that -- >> people hate that. >> and so -- but ultimately, no regrets? >> oh, what do you mean, no regrets? are you kidding me? i'm sitting here and i have nobody. all this time. for sure it's really hard, but i just feel that those are my conditions. you know, i'm a strong christian. and that's the gift i want to give to my husband. >> we were three-time national champions. >> reporter: lolo is stopping at freezing her eggs, still holding out hope that she'll find her soul mate. >> there's hope. there really is hope. stop hiding out in your house crying in the fetal positio. because i've done it. there is hope. up next, 17 years after hurricane katrina, the youngest victims still trying to heal. announcer: type 2 diabetes? discover the power of 3 in the ozempic® tri-zone.

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or nola for short -- is often remembered for its worst disaster, hurricane katrina, one of the most catastrophic storms to hit the u.s. made worse by a colossal failure of flood protection. with 175-mile-per-hour winds and waves up to 50 feet tall, broken levees throughout the city resulted in devastating flooding. hurricane katrina left 1,800 people dead and 80% of new orleans underwater. >> please send somebody to help us, please send somebody to help us. >> reporter: the world watched, helpless. >> look at the signs they're holding up. >> reporter: harrowing images of families stranded on rooftops and entire neighborhoods submerged. >> we were used to storms. it was never fig to that magnitude. >> reporter: sierra was just 9 years old when the category 5 hurricane made landfall. >> the standard in new orleans,

if you do evacuate, three days max, pack three outfits. i remember in packing those three outfits i made it a point to throw in my little jazz land six flags season pass, some baby pictures. >> reporter: the storm left a region in ruins. more than 800,000 homes destroyed or damaged. hers was one of them. >> they just had a black trash bag that was half filled. it was like, this is what's left of the house. and in that moment, that's when it kind of registered for the first time of, what we knew is no longer there. >> reporter: her story of survival just one of many profiled in hbo's new documentary "katrina babies." >> in america, especially during disaster, black children are not even a thought. >> have you ever talked about this before? >> no. i haven't. >> why, then? >> i don't know, don't ask me. >> reporter: the film offering an intimate look at the most vulnerable and often forgotten

victims of the storm, the children. now adults unpacking their trauma for the first time. >> went to the center and it was -- it was weird. i saw a dead man on the street. it was scary. like, what? like, am i going to die? like, i started questioning things now. >> i just never really realized how much baggage and trauma we were just holding on to. and i also realized that no one was ever checking on us. >> reporter: edward huckles jr. is a first-time director. his film a passion project set in the big easy, the only place he called home as a child. >> being 13 years old during the storm, i didn't really understand what was happening. i knew that i was being impacted but i didn't really know how. it wasn't until i became older and i grew up in a post-katrina

new orleans and i started to notice how -- how different the city was. hurricane katrina echoes in new orleans today within us. >> reporter: the now 30-year-old was fortunate enough to evacuate with his parents and siblings but had other close family members who chose to stay behind. >> i remember i asked one of he adults, wait, like, if all of this is underwater, what happened to the people who stayed behind? like, where are they? and, like, you know -- she was like -- looked me dead in my eye as a kid and said, "everybody who stayed in new orleans is dead." and i just started crying. >> reporter: the city they knew before katrina is something these young survivors say they'll never see again. >> what i remember upon returning to new orleans was the absence of everything. the absence of life. the absence of our culture. the absence of people. the absence of natives. i didn't see those elders

sitting on the porch anymore. i didn't see children running in the streets. so it was truly a ghost town. >> the displacing of black communities all over the city started to cause this trickle-down effect of, you know, you are no longer in the community you came up in. >> reporter: in the aftermath, more than 1 million americans were displaced, stigmatized as refugees in their own country, many unable to return to their homes. >> i know it's not as populated as it once was. the area is almost dead. >> reporter: tina thomas was a neighborhood mom. someone buckles considers family. she relocated to shreveport after barely escaping her house. >> watching that water fill up outside, watching the water bust the window out of my house, the whole front wall of the house just collapsed. >> reporter: and nearly two decades later, she still dreams of returning back home but says

the cost of living in new orleans is too high. >> i'm disappointed with everything. you still have people that can't come back, to this day. they can't afford to live here no more. we can't afford to come back here. >> i think new orleans has lost so much. katrina, different storms before and after. you know. to violence, to gentrification. and i think that loss weighs heavy on me often. it's something that i'm always thinking about. >> reporter: buckles wants this project to shed light on the importance of talking about trauma. he hopes that by looking to the past, a whole generation can pave a new way forward. >> i think that by us telling these stories of the children of new orleans who experienced hurricane katrina, i think that that already has opened up some type of journey to heal. i wouldn't that eye it's healed us already, but i do think that at least we know now that it's

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