Kylie Minogue postponed her chemotherapy to undergo IVF and she was left devastated when she failed to conceive her “miracle” baby.
Kylie Minogue has opened up about her failed IVF attempts
The Spinning Around star was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and she’s now revealed she put off starting her treatment in a last ditch attempt to become a mother – explaining she underwent several rounds of IVF in secret but none were successful.
Speaking in her new Netflix documentary Kylie, the singer explained: “There’s so much more to cancer than you had it, you got through it and you’re fine – or fine for now. I was 36 when I got my diagnosis, so already it’s – you need to be thinking about children.
“I did try. I even postponed my chemotherapy to try, which was quite scary at the time because you just want it out. Gone. I want to feel safe, I don’t want this. But yeah, I did try a few times with IVF, always it was with such a thread of hope.
“But I couldn’t not try. If it had happened, it would have been just shy of a miracle. But it didn’t work out that way. One can’t help but wonder what it would have been like – and I’m so close to my family. But it wasn’t my path.”
Kylie wiped away tears as she spoke about missing out on the chance to become a mother and she went on to read out a letter she had written to her unborn baby at the time.
Describing it as a note to the baby “that might have been”, Kylie read: “Distant child, my flower, are you blowing in the breeze? Can you feel me as I breathe life into you, wrapped in a blanket of hope, asleep on a bed of dreams?
“My step into eternity is not what it might have been. Or not at all – for who knows which way the wind is going to blow? I’m waiting for your whisper.”
Kylie opened up about her life in an interview with the Sunday Times, admitting she’s accepted her path but she hopes to meet a partner who already has children so she can become a stepmother.
She said: “It would be a lie to say there’s not a bit of sadness there, but I don’t get caught up in it. I can’t. I mean, what can I do? And there’s a high probability, if/when I meet someone, that they will have children anyway. So I could imagine being a stepmum.”
