Joseph Viles/Fox Sports; Erin Andrews/Instagram Erin Andrews is urging people to be proactive with their health with the Check for Cancer Movement, a new partnership she's launching with Aflac The sports commentator opens up to PEOPLE about her personal journey navigating her cancer diagnosis and her fertility The proud mom shares her son Mack, 2, with husband Jarret Stoll Erin Andrewsis encouraging everyone to be proactive with their health. While speaking with PEOPLE for the Check for Cancer Movement, a new partnership she's launching with Aflac, the Fox sportscaster, 47, opens up about her personal journey navigating her cancer diagnosis and her fertility. The partnership aims to encourage people to stay up to date with their check-ups and prioritize their routine cancer screenings, which is something Andrews says she urges her family and friends to do. "Be proactive about your health. It's so important," she says. "That's something that I try to stress with my family [and] something that I try to deal with my own health." "I hate going to the oncologist. I love my oncologist. I hate going for my checkups to make sure I'm okay and everything, but it's just so important," she continues. "It's an early lesson I'm going to be teaching my son as well." Joseph Viles/Fox Sports The sports commentator shares that communication has been key for her when dealing with all of life's ups and downs. "When I was dealing with cancer, [and] even now when I'm dealing with my infertility, my surrogacy journey, I talk to people. I talk to my family [and] use them as a resource. I talk to doctors," she says. "I just think it's so important to get as much information as possible than to do it all by yourself." "It's communication. It's being honest," she adds. "Our last miscarriage, I tried to do a better job with being open about my feelings and my grief and so forth, whereas before, I kind of glossed over it, and I noticed that wasn't the best. It's not good for anyone. You've got to really talk it out, and that's something that works for us in our life." Andrews, who revealed during an episode of herCalm Down with Erin and Charissapodcast that her surrogateexperienced a miscarriage, has been very vocal about the impact of her fertility journey. The doting mom, who shares her sonMack, 2, with her husbandJarret Stoll, says that it's been "really hard" to stay positive and keep trying. "It's really hard to stay up," she tells PEOPLE. "I mean, we're talking about trying this all over again, and I am literally thinking to myself, 'Ugh, I don't want to do this all over again. I don't want to deal with heartbreak.'" Erin Andrews/Instagram Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. As she navigates her own fertility and health journey, Andrews hopes to inspire others, especially women who want to become mothers someday, to speak up and advocate for themselves. "My first piece of advice is something that I remember a colleague of mine at Fox shared — be your best advocate," she says. "Get the answers. Just because you have cancer doesn't mean you can't become a mother." "Science is incredible right now," she continues. "It's helped bring our perfect son to us via IVF and surrogacy. And, I'm not saying that's the route you need to take, but science is amazing, and there's always adoption and other things like that." She also advises people at any stage of their journey to get as much information as possible. "I would just be your best advocate, and I would get as much information, like I said, from doctors, from wherever," she says. "Don't go about it alone, especially if you're not well-versed in all this stuff. Get answers from other people." Read the original article onPeople
