Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has explained why it is currently "too dangerous" for her to fall pregnant.
The dancer underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023, later confirming after treatment that there was "no evidence of disease".
Amy has now explained that due to being put into early menopause, it is "too soon" to consider having children at the moment – though she hopes that she and husband Ben can have kids in the future after an egg retrieval procedure.
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"I had a hormone-fed cancer, so I have been put into early menopause and it would be too dangerous now to consider it," she explained on Loose Women yesterday.
"But I really want to be a mum, I’ve always wanted to be a mum. We do have five embryos, I hope one day, if it’s safe to do so, I do get the privilege and honour to be someone’s mummy."
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This isn't the first time Amy has spoken about fertility, the star telling the What If? podcast last month that "when they feel it’s safe" they will hopefully "have the opportunity" to start a family.
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"And if not, there’s still lots of other opportunities, which we have spoken about," she added. "Hopefully in years to come we’ll be lucky enough to become parents, too, but [we’re] taking every day as it comes."
Amy previously explained in her BBC documentary Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me that the moment she and Ben found out that doctors had managed to freeze five embryos was an "immense" relief.
"I needed to have a shot at something no matter what at that time," she added. "I just needed that little bit of hope."
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