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Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Katie Price has candidly opened up about her concerns that she might be entering the menopause.
At 46, Katie is experiencing troubling symptoms like disrupted sleep and cold sweats. After a doctor's warning that menopause could be on the horizon within a few years, Katie confided in her sister Sophie during an episode of her podcast 'The Katie Price Show', sharing her midlife anxieties. "I'm not sleeping at night and I'm normally a really good sleeper, so something's going on," Katie admitted.
"So I'm just going to get my blood test because maybe I'm having an early menopause, I don't know how it all works, but I'm still having my periods." She also said her bed was "wet with cold sweat" in the run-up to her periods, so she wondered if she was "going through the change". Earlier in the year, in her IVF docuseries 'Katie Price: Making Babies' filmed in 2023, Katie was confronted with some stark realities about her fertility.
The series documented her journey to the Agora fertility clinic with then-fiancé Carl Woods, considering IVF for a baby together. There, Dr Carole Gilling-Smith, gynaecologist and medical director, informed her that she had only a "couple of awake eggs" left, and hormone tests indicated menopause was likely a couple of years away. Dr Gilling-Smith remarked, "For Katie, the first sign of ageing is coming from her ovaries and that is a big blow and something some women find hard to accept.
There is a feeling that you're no longer attractive. That is a sort of unsaid, unspoken feeling that women will have." Katie Price has never shied away from discussing her wish to expand her brood, considering options like surrogacy or IVF, and she's currently all loved-up with her MAFS UK beau JJ Slater .
Katie, who is a to five – Harvey, 22, Junior, 19, Princess, 17, Jett, 11, and Bunny, 10 – might find the menopause particularly tough, a fear intensified by her pursuit of another child and her well-known penchant for cosmetic procedures in an effort to maintain her youthful looks. She even confessed in a recent interview that despite undergoing over 20 cosmetic surgeries, she's not fond of her reflection, revealing a surprising lack of mirrors in her home. "I certainly don't think I'm beautiful," she shared candidly.
"I look at old photos of myself and think, 'Urrrgh! '" Menopause specialist Niki Woods weighed in on the topic, noting that worries about ageing and fertility are common as women approach perimenopause and menopause, especially for those hoping to conceive naturally. "Katie is 46 and the average age for a woman to go through menopause – counted as a year of no periods – is 51 in the UK, so I would think it very likely she's in perimenopause," Niki explained. "One of the challenges for women is that when we enter perimenopause we still feel young, but those of us born in the 70s and 80s were brought up thinking of menopause as an 'old lady' thing – and of course society associates youthfulness with female attractiveness.
"For women like Katie, who appear to put particularly strong emphasis on appearing youthful, and/or on their ability to have children, it can be especially emotionally challenging." Katie's experience with menopause strikes a particularly sensitive chord as another setback in her quest to conceive - having been informed that the probability of conceiving with her eggs stands at less than 1%. In her IVF-focused documentary, she confesses her dread that her then partner Carl may seek out a younger partner due to her fertility struggles.
"I'm now paranoid that he won't want to be with me because he'll want a kid," she disclosed during the show. "And he'll think I'm so much grief that he'll go and get someone younger and set up a family." Katie later voiced her fear directly to Carl: "I feel you're going to leave me.
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