Kerry Katona has admitted she's worried she won't be able to get pregnant after trying to conceive for four years with her fiancé Ryan Mahoney.
The mum-of-five, 42, says the couple are now considering surrogacy - with Kerry admitting she "definitely wouldn't carry one" now.
Opening up about the couple's plans to have a baby, she said: “I haven’t fallen pregnant in four-and-a-half years with Ryan, so it will be interesting to see what happens after our meeting.
"I’ve always been fertile but I’m getting older now. We’re not putting any pressure on it. If it’s meant to be, it will be.”
Kerry added she has a meeting soon to speak about freezing her eggs as the couple explore surrogacy options.
“I’m not ruling out having more children,” she confirmed.
“I definitely wouldn’t carry one, but I’d definitely have a surrogate. In fact, I have a meeting soon to speak about my eggs. I want to freeze them. Nothing is set in stone. Ryan has to get his sperm checked and I have to see if I have enough eggs," reports OK! magazine.
Kerry, who is mum to Molly, 21, Lilly, 19, Heidi, 14, Max, 13, and DJ, eight, recently revealed she suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage in 2017.
The star said she became pregnant during a relationship with a mystery man after she split from ex-husband George Kay, who died in 2019.
The singer revealed she initially planned to have an abortion before deciding to go ahead with the pregnancy.
However, Kerry then tragically miscarried while she was in India for a performance.
In an extract of her new memoir, Kerry Katona : Whole Again, the star said she was threatened with a fine of £20,000 if she didn't do the gig, writing: “I was taken to hospital again, in this foreign country, where I was told the foetus was still in me and she still had a very, very faint heartbeat.
“There was nothing the doctors could do. I stayed in hospital for a couple of days until eventually there was no heartbeat anymore.“
The star added that she was "on the verge of miscarrying" as "that child had not survived" before heartbreakingly having an operation to terminate the pregnancy by a "kind doctor".
She concluded: "Now remember, at this point I was a mum of five, my babies were – and still are – absolutely everything to me and it went against every single maternal instinct I had, but I knew this child was not meant to be.“
