Holly Willoughby would have started a family via sperm donor if she had not met her husband
TV star has revealed she would have raised children alone if she had remained single
HOLLY Willoughby has revealed she would have started a family using a sperm donor if she was still single.
The TV star made the revelation on This Morning today, insisting she would have embraced life as a single mum if she had not met husband Dan Baldwin.
Holly has three children with her TV producer partner, who she has been married to since 2007.
She has placed having children at the top of her list of life's priorities, and would have gone ahead with parenthood even if she was single.
Holly admits she sperm donation would have been an option for her if she had not found the man of her dreams.
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During her appearance on This Morning, she declared she would have been a single mum "100 per cent".
She said: "I would have done [used a sperm donor]... I always said that if I hadn't been lucky enough to meet Dan and I got to an age when I thought that time was ticking, I would definitely have gone it on my own. 100 per cent."
Holly made the revelation during a chat with TV star Jodie Marsh, who was talking about her own plans to use a sperm donor to start a family solo.
Jodie revealed her fears over conceiving, insisting the process is "scary" and she prompted Holly to give her own opinions by telling the blonde beauty, "You know, you're a mum!"
Holly, 35, is mum to three children - Harry, seven, Belle, five, and she welcomed Chester to her brood in September 2014.
She recently released her own parenting book, titled Truly Happy Baby, which shared all her top tips with other mums, but Holly has since admitted raising kids is no easy task.
During an appearance on The One Show, she told presenters Alex Jones and Matt Baker that she struggled being a stay-at-home mother after giving birth to Chester.
She said: "I really thought ‘Right- this is my third baby, I’ve got this nailed! I’ve done this twice before so I know what I’m doing, I’m just going to take a year off for maternity, and I’ll just sit here, feed him and it will be wonderful’... [But] he had the worst reflux ever! It was a complete nightmare. He just used to sit there and scream.
“My point is, you can’t just have this fixed plan in your head when you become a mum because all babies are different.”
