Channel 4 A Place In The Sun's Scarlette Douglas 'never thought' she would be single and childless at 37

Popular TV daytime host of 'A Place in the Sun', Scarlette Douglas, has shared how she "never thought" she'd be single and childless at 37. Despite focusing on her career, she is still eager to start a family.

Speaking on ITV's Lorraine, she confessed to guest host Christine Lampard: "I never thought I'd be 37 with no man, no husband, and no baby." But the Channel 4 property show host revealed how she has prepared for motherhood, saying, "Being a career-driven woman is fantastic but I do want to have a family so I have to take my future into my own hands and prepare myself for having kids at a later date."

Douglas admits she had a backup plan in place - egg freezing, explaining: "I, of course, would love to have a child naturally but that might not be the case so egg-freezing is something had to be done as a backup."

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However, the difficult reality of egg freezing hit hard for the former I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! contestant once she began the process. She opened up about the overwhelming experience, stating: "I wasn't prepared at all, if I'm honest. I had looked into it but until you actually get there and you get given all of the medication. That moment for me was so overwhelming because I realised I'd have to be injecting myself every day to get to a point where my eggs are healthy enough to take out."

Touching on the urgency she felt as she got older, she added: "When you hit 35, the egg count starts to decrease and the quality of the eggs start to decrease as well. I wondered why I hadn't done this earlier in life."

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