Katie Price received disappointing news during her attempts to undergo IVF with her ex-partner Carl Woods on the TV program, Making Babies. She discovered she was approaching menopause.
The documentary aired on Channel 4 showcases their journey through fertility treatments in 2023, before their relationship ended. It captures Katie and Carl’s efforts to expand their family with another child.
After three years of trying to conceive, the couple faced a significant setback. A fertility specialist revealed to Katie, who was 45 at the time, that she had only a few viable eggs left and that her body was displaying signs of entering menopause.
Breaking the news to the pair during the first episode on Monday, gynecologist Carole Gilling-Smith informed them that they had ‘less than one percent’ of falling pregnant using Katie’s own eggs, adding that it she was ‘unlikely’ to produce a ‘healthy egg’.
And while the situation was a crushing blow to the then couple, Katie was then seen panicking that Carl would dump her amid the fact that she was facing the menopause ‘within a year or two’ and might not be able to give him a child naturally.
The mother-of-five exclaimed: ‘He probably won’t want to be with me now anyway.’
Speaking to the camera, she added: ‘But I now am paranoid that he won’t want to be with me because he’ll want a kid, and he’d think I’m so much grief that he’d go and get someone younger and set up a family. That’s what I think.’
As Carl slammed her negativity as ‘insanity’, Katie went on to say how ‘paranoid’ she was, remarking: ‘The door is closed on me!’
Fertility expert Carole then later admitted that the news was a ‘big blow’ for Katie (now 46) as she told how ‘the first sign of ageing is coming from her ovaries’.
She also shared that when women get news such as Katie’s, they often get the feeling that they are no longer attractive.
Despite being given such a low chance of producing a healthy egg, a determined Katie later informed Carole that she wanted to go ahead with the egg retrieval.
The documentary then sees Katie undergo a procedure to retrieve her egg, with the star later delighted when two are collected.
And while at the time the couple were excited at the prospect of having a baby, they went on to split mid-filming, while the IVF was ultimately unsuccessful.
It comes as Katie revealed she knew ‘deep down’ ex Carl wasn’t ‘the one’ despite the pair undergoing fertility treatment as she reflected their ‘turbulent’ relationship.
Carl is said to be furious that their baby documentary is airing after their split, with friends telling The Sun: ‘Carl is embarrassed that this is being aired after their messy break-up.
‘He has always claimed she cheated on him and he needed therapy after their relationship. He doesn’t want any reminders of Katie as he spent a long time forgetting that period of life and this brings it all up.’
MailOnline have contacted Carl’s representatives for a comment.
But after splitting from Carl mid-filming, Katie admitted she ‘was trying to make a relationship work that she knew wasn’t right for her’.
Katie, who continued fertility counselling solo, admitted a ‘weight lifted off her shoulders’ shortly after her relationship ended with Carl.
She said: ‘I feel such a weight has come off my shoulders (after counselling)’, while also admitting how ‘blessed’ she is for her five children.
Katie is a proud mum to son Harvey, 22, with former footballer Dwight York, son Junior, 19, daughter Princess, 17, with her first husband Peter Andre, and son Jett, 10, and daughter Bunny, nine, with ex-husband Kieran Hayler.
‘I’ve had a turbulent time, but I’ve reset the button’, Katie added.
In the documentary Katie also said she’s ‘exhausted with relationships’ amid recent rumours she’s split from boyfriend JJ Slater, 31.
She said: ‘I’m exhausted with relationships, when I look back at how the IVF journey was, a lot of times I wasn’t happy.’
