Candace Parker Needed To Do This For Herself
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It isn’t easy when a female athlete announces she’s pregnant in the middle of her career. Candace Parker of the Los Angeles Sparks raised a lot of eyebrows when she was pregnant with her daughter in 2009.
Parker decided that her pregnancy wasn’t going to slow down her career, and although she had a lot on her plate, she planned on playing basketball again after she delivered her baby. “My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it’s time to please myself. For me, family has always come first,” the WNBA star told The New York Times in 2009.
