Former model Katie Price has revealed her fears she is going through the menopause and it’s thrown another spanner In the works when it comes to having a sixth child
Katie Price has opened up about her fears that she may be going through the menopause. The 46-year-old detailed her new symptoms as she revealed she’s struggling with sleep and cold sweats. Following warnings from a doctor that the menopause could come in the next couple of years, Katie spoke to her sister Sophie on her podcast The Katie Price Show and revealed her midlife worries.
“I’m not sleeping at night and I’m normally a really good sleeper, so something’s going on,” she shared. “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 this year, in Katie Price: Making Babies, her IVF docuseries that was filmed in 2023, Katie received some news about her fertility. The show focused on Katie’s visits to the Agora fertility clinic with her then fiancé Carl Woods, to explore using IVF to have a baby of their own.
She admitted on her podcast she’s been struggling with sleep
She was told by gynaecologist and medical director Dr Carole Gilling-Smith that she only had a “couple of awake eggs”, and her hormone levels showed she would probably start going through menopause within a couple of years. “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,” Dr Gilling-Smith said.
“There is a feeling that you’re no longer attractive. That is a sort of unsaid, unspoken feeling that women will have.”
Katie has been open about her desire to have more children – whether by surrogate or IVF – and is happily loved-up with her MAFS UK star boyfriend JJ Slater. We’re told Katie, who is mum to Harvey, 22, Junior, 19, Princess, 17, Jett, 11, and 10-year-old Bunny, would likely find the menopause a challenging milestone that could potentially hit her hard – her fears only exacerbated by the fact she is chasing her baby dream and is known for constantly changing her appearance via cosmetic surgery to look younger.
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She even said in an interview earlier this month that despite more than 20 cosmetic surgeries, she doesn’t like looking at herself – and there are no mirrors in her house. “I certainly don’t think I’m beautiful,” she admitted. “I look at old photos of myself and think, ‘Urrrgh!’”
The mum of five is in a relationship with JJ (
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Menopause expert Niki Woods told us that these sorts off anxieties around ageing and fertility when it comes to perimenopause and menopause are not uncommon, especially for women who still want 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,” she said.
“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.”
She’s spoken about her fertility battle openlyFor Katie, the menopause would be another blow in her fertility journey – after already being told that the chances of her having a baby using her own eggs were less than 1%. In her IVF documentary she shared her fears that Carl would leave her for a younger woman 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 said on the show. “And he’ll think I’m so much grief that he’ll go and get someone younger and set up a family.” She later told Carl, “I feel you’re going to leave me.”
