Kerry Katona has ruled out adopting a child.
Kerry Katona
The 40-year-old star and her fiancé Ryan Mahoney are keen to have a child together, but Kerry insists they won't be adopting because she feels like Ryan has already adopted her five kids.
Kerry - who has Molly, 19, Lilly-Sue, 18, Heidi, 14, Maxwell, 13, and Dylan, seven, from previous relationships - said: "Ryan wants to be a dad and I'm supportive of that, so I'll do whatever it takes to make it happen."
Ryan wants his child to carry his own name, even though he's a "wonderful stepdad" to Kerry's children.
She shared: "He'd like to carry on his name as well. We wouldn't want to adopt as it's like he's almost adopted my children anyway. Ryan is such a wonderful stepdad to my kids and treats them like his own."
Despite this, Kerry insisted the loved-up couple aren't in a "rush" to have a child.
The pop star explained that other things - like moving house - are currently topping her list of priorities.
She told New! magazine: "We're in no rush. We're focusing on moving house and growing our businesses. We're in a good financial situation now.
"I've not been in this situation for years. So to be where I am now is wonderful."
Kerry and Ryan are determined to keep an open-minded approach to having a baby.
And the former Atomic Kitten star revealed that surrogacy is one of the options they're currently considering.
She said: "I'm 40 so we're going to have to go down the process of freezing my eggs and getting them extracted.
"We want to talk to doctors and find the right surrogate."
Kerry is terrified by the prospect of carrying a baby after she almost died during her last pregnancy.
She said: "If I could carry a baby and be confident I'd feel alright at the end of it, I would.
"But my last pregnancy was so traumatic.
"I'm 100 percent considering surrogacy. But we want to move house first and get ourselves sorted."
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