The TV star, also known as Jordan, is mother to two children with her ex-husband Peter Andre, as well as a son from a previous relationship, and Price admits when she married cagefighter Reid in February (10) she was desperate to have a child with him.
After eights months of trying to conceive, the couple consulted doctors and embarked on a series of painful in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments, but the 32-year-old star has still failed to fall pregnant.
In her new book, You Only Live Once, she writes, “After marrying Alex I had only one thing on my mind – having another baby. I’d love to have another four, in fact. But by April 2010, after we had been trying for eight months, I became so worried we made an appointment with a fertility doctor… Tests revealed neither of us had a fertility problem, but the sperm simply weren’t connecting with the egg… We were having ICSI (Intra-cytoplasmic Sperm Injection) which has a 65% success rate.”
Price was convinced she was pregnant after her first treatment, but was devastated when she realised the process had been unsuccessful: “For the first few days I held on to the feeling of optimism, but then the waiting got to me. Then I started experiencing stomach cramps and bleeding. A wave of shock and disappointment went through me…”
But Price is refusing to give up hope of having a baby with her husband, and will consider adopting in the future.
She adds, “I know I’m lucky to have three beautiful children. While Alex doesn’t yet have a biological child, he is still part of a family with kids. I am sure we’ll have a baby together one day. If we aren’t successful in our attempts then we will adopt.”
