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Brian McFadden has revealed he plans to become a father for the fourth time while hoping for another child with his fiancée Danielle Parkinson.
The former Westlife singer, 42, and his gym teacher partner welcomed their daughter Ruby just 18 months ago via IVF and plan to use a fertilized egg from the treatment to try again in the coming months.
Explaining “we’re probably going to wait a few more months,” the star described fatherhood as “the most incredible experience of my life.”
‘We’ll try it in a few months’: Brian McFadden, 42, has revealed he’s hoping for a fourth child with fiancé Danielle Parkinson as the couple prepares to start IVF again
In addition to youngest daughter Ruby, Brian also shares Molly, 21, and Lilly-Sue, 19 with ex-wife Kerry Katona.
He and Danielle were finally able to welcome their first child, Ruby, together after IVF treatment and two miscarriages in the process.
Speaking on FUBAR Radio this week, the singer talked about his plans to become a father for the fourth time, explaining: ‘Yeah absolutely, we had IVF treatments to get Ruby.
“We had four fertilized eggs, the first two were implanted and they miscarried, Ruby was the third and the fourth is the strongest. We’ll probably wait a few more months and then we’ll try it with that last egg.’
Parents: The couple welcomed daughter Ruby just 18 months ago via IVF
Try again: ‘We had four fertilized eggs, the first two were implanted and they miscarried, Ruby was the third and the fourth is the strongest. We’re probably going to wait a few more months and then we’ll try it with that last egg.”
Brian noticed the 19-year age difference between his youngest and oldest daughters and admitted he now has more time to be a hands-on dad.
‘She is [Ruby] amazing, she’s unbelievable, i obviously have three girls. But Molly and Lilly are twenty-one and nineteen, and when I had them both, I was in Westlife, so I didn’t have time.
“We didn’t have Facetime or video calling then, so I missed so much of them, their first steps, their first words, I missed so much of that,” he explained.
Loving Dad: In addition to youngest daughter Ruby, Brian also shares Molly, 21, and Lilly-Sue, 19 with ex-wife Kerry Katona
Brian gushed: “It’s just the most incredible experience of my life, and I wake up every morning so excited to see her”
Going on, “I see absolutely everything with Ruby, I’m with her pretty much every day, she comes everywhere and when she doesn’t come I can go on Facetime and I can talk to her and see her.
“It’s just been the most incredible experience of my life and I wake up every morning so excited to see her.”
Brian and Danielle welcomed Ruby via emergency cesarean section in May 2021, with the PE teacher previously telling her that if she welcomed another child she would get “all the pain relief.”
Chat with OKAY! last year she explained that gas and air “didn’t touch the sides” and that if she has another child, she’ll get an “epidural” and “all the pain relief.”
Explaining her last birth, she continued, “There was a line in front of the theater so I had to go through these contractions, which were terrible. I was in so much pain and desperate for pain relief.”
Family: Brian and Danielle welcomed Ruby via emergency cesarean section in May 2021, with the PE teacher previously saying that if she welcomed another child she would get ‘all the pain relief’
While focusing on parenting, Brian and Danielle have also tried to tie the knot, delaying their wedding day three times.
Brian explained on Fubar Radio: ‘We were getting married in South Africa, then the first wave of the pandemic hit, so we had to cancel because everyone was locked up. Then everything was lifted and we had to go into lockdown again, so we canceled it again.’
He continued: ‘On the third time we were told we could go to South Africa and have the wedding but South Africa was on the red list so we would all have to be in hotel quarantine over the summer holidays…
“That would be a sexy honeymoon, wouldn’t it? Be in a beautiful vineyard in Africa, then spend two weeks in a Holiday Inn at the Gatwick airport to get Margherita pizzas under your door. No thank you.’
The couple now say “I do” in 2023, two years later than originally planned.