TV star Katie Price’s IVF documentary featured awkward scenes as she was seen with a puppy named Tank, which she later rehomed months after filming.
The former glamour model's new Channel 4 documentary, Katie Price: Making Babies, shows her emotional journey with IVF treatment while she was with her ex-partner Carl Woods. The series captures Katie's journey along with her disappointment when the IVF didn’t work, and she wasn't pregnant.
The documentary was filmed in 2023 but was released earlier this week. In episode two, Katie was shown at home, looking after her dogs and children while waiting for a call from the fertility clinic, with Carl at work. As the camera zoomed out from her home, the former glamour model was heard calling out: "Jett, could you just get the dog? He's chewing that wire."
Jett, now 11, said to his mum: "He's already ruined it." Katie laughed and said: "That's puppies for you, and the kitchen was so tidy and now it's a mess. Like, help me." Katie looked frustrated as the camera showed the dogs and a sink full of dishes. She quipped: "And I want another baby? Jesus."
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PA)Katie chose to give up Tank, after reportedly losing interest and feeling overwhelmed by the need to train him, as reported by The Sun at the time. A source told the publication how the model gave the pet to her electrician and added: "She loves getting puppies that look cute on Instagram but when they start to grow up and she has to train them she loses interest."
Katie is already a mother to five children - sons Harvey, 22, Junior, 19, and Jett, 11, and daughters Princess, 17, and Bunny, 10 - alongside a host of pets. Katie and Carl had split in 2023, the same year the documentary was filmed. Carl has since expressed that he was relieved the IVF didn't work, as it allowed the couple to have a "clean break."
Sharing his joy, Carl said: "This is not a heartbreak situation. I'm not unhappy that it didn't work. I'm ecstatic that it didn't work. I'm sure she's glad she's got the clean break. You know, we don't have any ties. So actually, yes, everything happens for a reason. God was looking down on me and Kate and said, 'you're not matched to be parents, let's not make this work. You go that way, I'll go this way'."
Alongside Carl’s claim that he and Katie shouldn’t have had a child, viewers have also raged against the duo’s relaxed attitude towards fertility treatments in the doc. In one scene from the first episode, Katie and Carl discussed potential donors and the kind of attributes they would have liked their potential child to have. Katie asked: "Right would you like them to have curly hair or straight? I like curly."
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Channel 4)Carl had the opposite response, saying: "I like straight." Moving on, Katie observed: "Hobbies, you don't like hiking, you hate reading and you don't like classical and contemporary dance," to which he replied: "No."
Katie and Carl then dismissed a university-educated donor who "clearly isn't us", before Katie continued: "Next one - oh you only like this one because she says she's 24. Listen this isn't a dating app."
The then-couple’s slightly comical approach rubbed some viewers up the wrong way, with one writing on X, formerly known as Twitter: "You're disgusting giving rancid Katie Price IVF treatment for viewing figures. Give it to couples who may never get the chance to become parents!"
Another slammed the show and its subjects, writing: "Watching Katie Price Making Babies - Absolutely disgusted! All about me!!! No respect for those who have been on the IVF rollercoaster. I treasure my precious miracle who took 6 transfers. She makes a mockery of the IVF process. Shame on #Channel4 for giving her a platform."
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