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Katie Price has revealed that she attempted to have a baby with on-off fiancé Carl Woods via IVF, but sadly their attempt was unsuccessful.
The 45-year-old OnlyFans star is a proud mother-of-five and has made no secret of the fact she would love to have more children. She has been in a dramatic relationship with 34-year-old former Love Island contestant Carl since 2020 - with the pair currently going steady after their latest reunion in June this year.
Katie’s five children are 21-yer-old son Harvey, who was the product of her explosive relationship with footballer Dwight Yorke, and she shares 18-year-old son Junior and 16-year-old daughter Princess with ex-husband Peter Andre. She also shares nine-year-old Jett and eight-year-old Bunny, with ex-husband Kieran Hayler.
While Katie and Carl are yet to tie-the-knot having been engaged for almost two years, it seems the pair are eager to create a child together - and they have used IVF to try and help them in their plight.
Katie Price and fiancé Carl Woods have been trying to conceive a child together (carljwoods/Instagram)Appearing on Michelle Visage's Rule Breakers podcast this week, Katie opened up about her dream of expanding her family with Carl - and shared her heartbreaking IVF journey. Asked by 54-year-old Michelle "Are you done having babies?" Katie replied: "No, are you joking?"
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The troubled reality star - who this week begged to be jailed as she faces yet more road related strife - then shared details of her unsuccessful IVF attempt. She explained: "I tried IVF last year and it failed - so I'm going to try again, try again. I'm not giving up. I need more babies." Michelle then probed Katie deeper. The RuPaul's Drag Race judge asked: "Do you have frozen eggs?" and Katie responded: "No, unfortunately I can only use what I've got."
Back in May, Katie was a guest on life coach Lewis Raymond Taylor's Turning Adversity Into An Asset podcast where she discussed potentially employing the help of a surrogate to help her expand her family. Katie told the host at the time: "I have got a surrogate, I haven't got any eggs anymore, I'm 44, I want another baby so what am I supposed to do? I can't pop it out."
Lewis then asked asked for more details about the surrogate. Katie said in response at the time: "I have got this lady, it will be my egg - she's been a fan of mine for years and she does do surrogacy."
While the question of paternity was also raised. Katie - who started dating Carl in 2020 and then the pair became engaged in 2021 after 10 months of dating. However, their relationship was on shaky ground earlier this year as they split in December 2022 and were in couples therapy in February this year as they tried desperately to rebuild their relationship. Asked in May who the father of her child born via surrogate would be, Katie replied at the time: "If I was with someone it would be with them, if not it would be a sperm donor."