The end of Katie Price and ex fiancé Carl Woods‘ relationship played out in front of the cameras as the pair came to blow during their attempts to have a baby through IVF.
Katie, 46, ended her in vitro fertilisation (IVF) journey on a new TV show saying she felt “exhausted” with romance, after she and former Love Island star Carl, 35, called time on their on-off relationship for good after a series of rows.
The mum-of-five, whose oldest child Harvey Price is 22-years-old, was determined her first child with Carl into the world together prior to their split last year, with Channel 4 on hand to film the process for a new documentary titled, Katie Price: Making Babies.
The feature’s premiere come months on from Katie and Carl calling it quits, with both parties claiming they’d rather the programme not air in the wake of their break-up. Katie, who has moved on with Married At First Sight UK star JJ Slater, can be seen revealing details of their split in the upcoming series.
The model and TV personality, 46, is told on the programme that she has a “couple” of eggs that can be collected, her hormone count is very low, and that she is “moving towards the menopause” by gynaecologist Carole Gilling-Smith in the Channel 4 documentary.
During the two-part show, filmed in 2023, the doctor successfully harvests two eggs, and Katie is told one egg has been fertilised, before she finds out that it is unsuccessful, and she is not pregnant. This is when cracks in her relationship with salesman Carl begin to show, and Katie says she is concerned that opting for a donor egg will leave him unhappy.
Carl dismisses this concern, saying: “She thinks if it’s not her doing it (having a baby), there’s going to be a problem, and it’s really not.” Katie is initially “really deflated”, but later says “it’s not the end of the world“, and adds that she thinks going for a donor egg will still feel “like it’s your own”.
Ms Gilling-Smith advises the couple to both have fertility counselling, and they are later seen selecting donor eggs from a list of people in the UK. But before a check-up and the egg implantation, it is revealed that Katie and Carl have broken up.
“He’s driving me mad with it all,” Katie says, as she takes a fertility hormone before the implantation of any donor. “He says I’m being horrible, well I’m going through hormones at the moment, (Carl) you’re the only one I’m horrible to because you just keep on at me.”
It is later revealed that Carl ended the relationship, with the salesman expressing upset at Katie’s “mood swings”, and the distance between them, living in different areas of the UK. He called it the “hardest decision” and said “I have done everything I can do, the only last thing is to walk away”.
Carl says that Katie might believe it was due to IVF struggles, but he adds that “what it is about is having stability in my life, kids need a stable home, and there’s no sign in it changing”. Katie says she “would love to have had a baby with him”, and continues undergoing therapy with her fertility counsellor.
“I’m exhausted with relationships, when I look back at how the IVF journey was, a lot of times I wasn’t happy,” she says. She later admits that she was “trying to make a relationship work that she knew deep down wasn’t the right relationship”, and says her family is her partner.
Katie also tells Ms Gilling-Smith that she “needs to love something”, as she shows off her latest hairless cat. “I feel such a weight has come off my shoulders (after counselling),” Katie adds, while speaking about how “blessed” she is to have five children. She adds: “I’ve had a turbulent time, but I’ve reset the button.”
Her children include eldest son Harvey, who she had together with ex-footballer Dwight Yorke, as well as two children, Junior and Princess, with singer Peter Andre and a son, Jett, and daughter, Bunny, with Kieran Hayler.
Katie was declared bankrupt for the second time last year, over an unpaid tax bill worth more than £750,000. She was first declared bankrupt in 2019, and in February 2024 was ordered to pay 40% of her monthly income from the adult entertainment website OnlyFans until February 2027 to help pay off her debts.
*Katie Price: Making Babies is on Channel 4 at 10pm, and continues on Tuesday, with episodes also available on the broadcaster’s streaming website.
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