Kerry Katona has teased that she and her fiancé Ryan will start plans to expand their family but they're in no rush.
The former Atomic Kitten star and Ryan Mahoney have been engaged for three years, with Katona joking that he is yet to make an honest woman of her.
But while many people on the showbiz scene would opt for a lavish wedding, Kerry, 42, and her partner Ryan, 34, are planning something a little more intimate. They're also planning on extending their brood with a child of their own but Kerry says they're building an empire first.
Speaking to the Mirror, the Warrington-born star said: "We want another baby, it's something we've spoken about which could be nice in the future – there's no plans to do it. Ryan's adopting DJ [Dylan Jorge], he's a wonderful, amazing stepdad to the children that he has.
"We're so busy building an empire and we're so busy creating the memories that we have already, we don't have time for babies.
"But I will go and have my eggs frozen so the option is there."
While Kerry has been married three times, to Westlife star Brian McFadden, drug dealer Mark Croft and George Kay, she believes she's now found her perfect man but unlike her first wedding, it won't be all glitz and glamour.
"I've been engaged three years, Daniel – he's not made an honest woman of me," she joked, as she went on to explain that she and Ryan are planning to get married in Vegas. But the couple had no idea they needed a marriage license from a UK registry office before tying the knot in Sin City as she said: "That show's how far along we are. We'll go to Vegas eventually. We've got no plans set in stone "
The star went on to reveal that she still has her dress which she was seen wearing on Say Yes To The Dress back in 2021. She added: "Because we've not had our vaccinations, we couldn't go to America because you had to have your jobs but now Biden's lifted that rule, we'll probably go to Vegas and get married with the kids."
But there's another reason why Kerry is choosing a small and intimate wedding and admitted that she's fearful of tying the knot again. In a candid admission, she revealed: "I've done the big weddings, I've done all that – I still get triggered, it still scares me a bit.
"Ryan's not a crowded person, he's very much in the background, I don't want to do this for anybody else. I want to do it to me and him. Obviously, my first marriage, I thought it would last forever but I just went along with it, it was sort of fake and it wasn't real. It wasn't what I wanted.
"I've said it before, 'This is it, we'll be together', but I don't know," she said, when asked if he would like to "give it a go", Ryan said: "Yeah!" Kerry explained that because of her troubled childhood, she was "desperate" to be loved and to please that she found solace in the wrong people.
Now in a happy relationship, Kerry says that she no longer relies on men for happiness as chilled-out Ryan "enhances" her own happiness now. "For so long, I had daddy issues, men issues, I was trying to create this dream that I had as a kid but with the wrong person, until I found the right person," she said before adding: "The other day, we were laying on the bed and Ryan comes up and the three children come in.
"DJ is doing cartwheels, Max is toy fighting with Ryan and our Heidi is telling me about all the gossip about school and I just sat there looking and thinking 'Wow, I've got it, I've finally got what I wanted', I went to Ryan 'How lucky are we?'
"As far as I'm concerned, Ryan has been an amazing dad, I couldn't ask for more, it's been tough but I forget how lucky I am, it's so important to remind yourself that I've got through it." The television personality went on to add: "I've got that family lifestyle, I feel so blessed that I've got what I always wanted and Ryan's been a massive part of that." This week, Kerry launches the paperback copy of her memoir, Whole Again: Love, Life And Me documenting her struggles as a young girl to her turbulent past and finding herself back on top of the showbiz circuit.
Kerry Katona: Whole Again, published by Mirror Books RRP £9.99, is on sale in paperback from 6th July. You can pre-order from Amazon now.
