Doctors found a tumour and told me I’ll never have kids after 6-year struggle, says A Place In The Sun’s Jasmine Harman

A PLACE In The Sun’s Jasmine Harman has told of her secret health scare when doctors found a tumour on her ovary.

The 46-year-old was told she'd never have kids during her six-year struggle to conceive.

"I remember going in for my first consultation, I met her and she said I had a 30 per cent chance of falling pregnant.

"I was completely blasé about it and thought I would get pregnant. She said that no one has ever reacted like that.

"I had almost a vision that I knew it was going to happen somehow and it did."

But when Jasmine started to try for a baby when she was 34, it was far from an easy journey.

Speaking on Made by Mammas podcast, she added: "Three years later we started our IVF treatment because nothing was happening.

"At that point, I was like 'why did I leave it so late, why was I not fussed about having kids'.

"I was two weeks off my 38 birthday when Joy was born.  So it was from the time I decided I wanted to do it, to the time I got pregnant was six years. 

"At the time it felt there was a bit of stigma and I didn’t want to talk about it publicly...it really meant a lot when I was trying to get pregnant to do so naturally and I had acupuncture, health supplements and did all these different techniques because I really wanted to get pregnant naturally."

Opening up about a benign tumour that was discovered by doctors, Jasmine added: "I had a few issues, with an ovarian cyst, they call it tumour, but it was completely benign.

"They wanted to check that before I could go for IVF.

"I had no side effects at all, I got pregnant at the first cycle and had three embryos frozen, the next time we tried it didn’t work out and the third time we tried with a frozen embryo – that was Albion – I always tell him that he was frozen.

"And the fourth time, we also tried and didn’t survive the thawing."

Thankfully, Jasmine went on to have a son, Albion, and daughter Joy.

Jasmine added: "So it wasn’t completely plain sailing, but we are very grateful to only have to have one cycle and have two lovely children."

Jasmine has presented A Place in the Sun since 2012.