AUSTRALIAN radio host Jackie “O” Henderson has revealed she is still “paying rent” to keep embryos she created with her ex-husband on ice.
The 48-year-old opened up on The Kyle and Jackie O Show this week, saying she couldn’t bring herself to destroy them.
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Jackie underwent IVF with her British photographer ex-husband Lee Henderson to conceive their daughter Catalina Mae, or “Kitty”, now 12.
The pair split in 2018, after 15 years of marriage, but their embryos remain in the lab, kept frozen for a “minimal amount”.
While having more children is not part of Jackie’s current plan, she is not ready to rule the possibility out completely.
Jackie told her co-host Kyle Sandilands: “It just feels so final to go destroy them.”
When asked if she would like to have another child, Jackie said she was “happy with just having one”.
“No, no. Too late now, I think it might be.”
She explained to an IVF nurse on the show: “I have embryos, babe, but I’m not with [Lee] anymore.”
The nurse told Jackie that she could use the embryos, if she wanted to, as long as she had her ex-husband’s consent.
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Jackie and Lee fell pregnant with their daughter Kitty in December, 2010 after several rounds of IVF.
At the time, they had about 10 embryos frozen, reported news.com.au.
The successful radio star has previously said she would not be opposed to having a second child, telling The Daily Telegraph two years before her separation: “Lee and I say, ‘If we could magically make a three-year-old appear right now, we’d have one.’
“But it’s the thought of going through the pregnancy and the first two years that seems so exhausting to us right now.
“I wouldn’t rule it out completely; I do have some swimmers sitting there, little bubs in tubes, that might one day see the light of day.
“I’m still paying storage for them.”
Jackie O made headlines this week after she admitted she was “embarrassed” to have spent $13.25 million on an oceanfront mansion in Sydney.
She said on Stellar’s Something to Talk About podcast: “I do sometimes get embarrassed to talk about money. I hate showing off wealth.
“I’ve always been like that … I want a nice bag, car and house, but I don’t want to flaunt it.
“But I shouldn’t be embarrassed about it, so I am trying to take more ownership of that.”
The six-bedroom home is located in the small beach-side suburb of Clovelly and offers both privacy and an enviable view of Gordons Bay.
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