Alex Jones has stated that when she was younger, she had a problematic relationship between her feminist identity and her desire to become a mother.
The 45-year-old One Show host has three children with husband Charlie Thomson, but she has faced heartbreak along the road.
Alex had a miscarriage in 2017 before delivering Teddy, five, Kit, three, and Annie, one, in 2018. She was 39 years old when she had her first kid.
The Welsh native is candid about reproductive challenges, having had her first child after making the documentary Fertility And Me, in which she explored the less-discussed aspects of getting pregnant at a later age.
Alex Jones: Making Babies, a weekly show in which she trains as a fertility assistant in one of the UK’s leading IVF clinics, premiered five years ago.
The mother of three has said that she struggled with the concept of being a mother when she was younger because she thought it was ‘un-feminist’ to consider raising a family when she should be focusing on her profession.

She told the How To Fail podcast with Elizabeth Day: ‘I thought it was a bit un-feminist in a way to even say “I’m worried about my fertility,” because you’re so busy carving out your career.
‘Nobody wants to hear about the fact that you might want babies down the road.’
She added that she believes the perception is ‘shifting a bit’ but ‘slowly,’ and is still ‘very much there.’
Reflecting on her younger days and the beginning of her lucrative career, she recalled: ‘Throughout school, throughout your teenage years, throughout your twenties, the main thing is don’t get pregnant because that will mess up your career.
‘Nobody at any point said, “But you might want to think about [fertility] if you want a family because actually, it is as important as a career.”‘

She said that to some people having a family may not be as important as having a career ‘but it’s still up there’ – and that as soon as you decide you’re ready and want a baby, ‘the tables turn – it’s a 360.’
Alex recently talked up about it, recalling how she spent most of her twenties thinking ‘don’t get pregnant’ before she and her husband decided to start trying when she was in her mid-thirties.
Speaking to The Sun, she recalled the ‘whole new and different level of wanting – the disappointment and what it does to you as a couple.’
She added that herself and Charlie were ‘really naive’ thinking they would get pregnant quickly and easily, and urged: ‘if you’re in a relationship and you know you want kids, go for your life as soon as you can.’
Alex acknowledged, however, that it’s ‘not always that straightforward,’ adding: ‘I think sometimes it’s not in your control.’
Alex Jones: Making Babies airs on the W Channel