Ola Jordan opens up about her IVF conception journey

STRICTLY Come Dancing’s Ola Jordan has spoken about conceiving a child via IVF treatment and told how she’d love to have more kids.

In a candid interview the former star of the Saturday night show told GB News: “I have an amazing career travelling around the world, and then you sort of forget yourself sometimes and you go, ‘oh, actually, probably I’ve missed the boat here’.

“I needed help and I needed to go through IVF which was obviously great for me because it happened for the first time and it was a very positive experience.

“But at the same time, it’s something that you don’t really want to have to do. You want to conceive naturally.”

Speaking to Isabel Webster during Breakfast on GB News, Ola, whose daughter Ella is now two, added: “It’s really hard because you don’t know who to turn to. Most of my friends used to get pregnant so easily.

“I didn’t understand why I wasn’t getting pregnant. I was healthy, fit, I was a professional dancer.”

“It’s very hard and it’s very hard to turn to someone because everyone was getting pregnant around me.

“But then when I went through IVF and I announced that I was going through IVF suddenly I found all those women coming up to me and going ‘I did IVF’, so suddenly there were a lot of women that I could talk to.

“It’s still a subject that people don’t want to talk about, unfortunately.”

Ola, married to former Strictly Come Dancing star, James, said: “I would love to have more children if it happens naturally, if it doesn’t I will go for another IVF, yes.

“Things have changed massively, 49% of women are delaying having children because of different things like the cost of living, and Covid, and the war in Ukraine, which I understand.

“Ask yourself a question here. Do I want to bring a child into a world like this?

“But it’s hard. It’s hard because we just need to remember about ourselves, you don’t want to leave it too late and then struggle with that yourself.”