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Cat Deeley warned by doctors she's 'triple high risk' if she has more kids

Cat Deeley is desperate to have more children but has been told by doctors that she is “triple high risk” because she’s a “geriatric” mum.

Cat Deeley wants more children (Photo: Rich Fury/Invision/AP)
Cat Deeley wants more children (Photo: Rich Fury/Invision/AP)

The 40-year-old television presenter loves being a mother to her 16-month-old son Milo and wants to add to her brood with her husband Patrick Kielty, but doctors say that her age is putting her at higher risk.

A geriatric mum is a woman who is pregnant after the age of 35, and the odds of genetic problems jump significantly over the age of 40.

She said: “I would love some more. But I have got to get on with it if I do. When you go for your check-ups they call you a ‘geriatric mum’. That is the terminology they use, I swear. They say, ‘Ma’am, you are triple high risk.'”

Cat Deeley and her husband Patrick Kielty (PA)
Cat Deeley and her husband Patrick Kielty (PA)

Cat admits she has had to adjust to motherhood and she’ll often stay up all night to check Milo is okay.

She added to the Daily Mirror newspaper: “I am awake all night listening out for him. I am checking he is breathing. I am depressed I will never sleep again.”


Cat and Patrick tied the knot in September 2012 after less than a year of dating and whilst Cat admits things happened “very quickly”, she felt it was the best thing for them because they were both older and more self-assured.

She shared: “It was quite knock-your-socks-off for both of us. There were no more games and it all happened very quickly because we were older and comfortable in our own skin. A lot of our friends knew it would happen before we did but I honestly had no idea. Otherwise I wouldn’t have wasted so much time. And thank God he happened to be around and that I hadn’t missed him in the process.”

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