Carli Lloyd is using her retirement to advocate for 'more options for women' in healthcare
- Carli Lloyd spent much of her 17-year pro soccer career advocating for women's equality in sports.
- Now, in her retirement, she's working to "provide more options" in women's healthcare.
Carli Lloyd spent her illustrious 17-year professional soccer career advocating for women in sports.
But now that's she's stepped off the field for the final time, the two-time World Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist with the US Women's National Team is lending her voice to advocating for women in a new realm: healthcare.
Lloyd has partnered with Agile Therapeutics — a women's healthcare company based in her home state of New Jersey — to help women understand their options and feel empowered to seek the care that best suits their own physical and mental well-being.
"The theme that aligns both of us is 'don't let anyone tell you what's possible,'" Lloyd told Insider. "It is very fitting and very organic because, for myself in my career for those 17 years, I didn't let anyone or anything set limits on myself. The limits were the limits that I set for me."
"As women, we're told so many different things," she added. "You're told you can only have a career, or you can only have a family. You can't do both."
Lloyd stressed that there's a "comfort of having options and knowing your options" in family planning as a woman in the modern world. Agile Therapeutics has centered its mission around "investing in ways to provide more options for women, starting with birth control."
Lloyd drew an immediate connection between the way she charted her path throughout her soccer career and the way Agile Therapeutics has committed to helping women take control of their own wellness.
"What I've learned is that no one is gonna be a better advocate than yourself," Lloyd said. "It's just so important to educate yourself on so many matters that you may face and [know] that there's options and there's research and there's opportunities that you have."
"It's vitally important, and any way I can continue to help shape that, I'll do my best."