Lorraine Kelly has admitted that she ‘left it too late’ to do IVF and has urged others not to do the same if they can.
The 63-year-old previously opened up about how she had wanted to have more children, but had thought that going down the route of having IVF (in vitro fertilisation) would have been ‘too hard’.
Rosie, the talk show host’s daughter, was born in 1994, and she lives with her husband, television cameraman Steve Smith.
Lorraine invited Alex Jones into the ITV studio on Thursday’s broadcast ahead of The One Show host’s Making Babies documentary, which airs tonight on the W channel.
Alex will be educated as a fertility assistant at one of the UK’s best reproductive clinics while chatting to various people about their fertility journeys.
Speaking to Lorraine, Alex said: ‘I thought I knew what IVF was about, lots of friends had been through it, but actually I didn’t have a clue. It’s so tough mentally and physically and just to ride that wave and what it does to you as a couple.’


Lorraine responded: ‘Oh it has massive effects on relationships.’
After Alex, 45, expressed her hope that the documentary allows viewers to ‘properly understand what it entails’.
‘You have that empathy,’ Lorraine told her guest. ‘You didn’t go down the road of IVF, neither did I, and I left it too late. And that’s the thing – don’t leave it too late if you can. But you can completely empathise with these couples.’
‘Absolutely,’ Alex replied, before opening up about welcoming her children with husband Charlie Thomson.
‘We didn’t have a straightforward time between the two boys, we had a loss then, quite late on, and then it resulted in some complications. I didn’t go down the IVF route, we thought we might have to, but we didn’t in the end.
‘But my goodness, it’s an eye opener.’
In 2014, Lorraine told The Mirror that she would have ‘loved to have had more kids, if that was possible’.
‘But to be honest with you, I didn’t want it enough to go down that IVF road because I’ve got friends who have done it and it’s hard,’ she shared.
‘It might have been different if we hadn’t had Rosie. In an ideal world I would’ve loved a football team of kids.’
Lorraine airs weekdays from 9am on ITV.