Peter Andre welcomed baby number five last summer despite vowing not to have kids past 50 – but now he’s ‘freaked out’ by getting the snip after hearing horror stories
Peter Andre has opened up about his reluctance to get the snip, despite his wish not to add to his brood of kids.
The I’m a Celebrity star already shares 10-year-old Amelia, eight-year-old Theo, and ten-month-old Arabella with his wife Emily MacDonagh, who works as a doctor. He and Katie Price their previous marriage – Junior, 19, and Princess, 17.
Peter, 51, spoke on the Netmums podcast about considering getting a vasectomy, but said he couldn’t follow through when he heard more about the actual procedure.
He explained: “’I then went and started asking people who’ve had it done, and they were like, ‘It’s horrific. It’s this, it’s that.”
Peter jokingly added his fear of his voice changing, saying: “I literally thought that if you get it done, you start talking like this …” changing his voice to be more squeaky.
Summarising whether or not he’d take the plunge, he admitted: “Probably not now. Look, I’m not gonna lie, I’ve completely bottled it. It’s freaked me out. Then again, if it means that she doesn’t have to do anything to prevent it, I will do it.”
As much as Peter would like to undertake the procedure for Emily, the singer again admitted that he wouldn’t be running to the hospital. “But it’s going to take some guts to do and I need to man up. I need to actually just go, you know what? Get over it and do it. But I’m just struggling a bit at the moment with the thought,” he said.
Alongside talking about the ins and outs of his long term contraceptive plans, Peter also appeared on Loose Women this week and described how his current family dynamic isn’t as he’d envisioned it.
Peter – as a father to a a baby born in April last year – shared that he’d never wanted to become a new father at an older age, but after undertaking the massive life change came to love his family and baby daughter more than ever.
“It is interesting. I was always like: ‘Never am I having kids when I get to 50, that’s it,’ and I said it would all have to happen before. Here I am at 51 doing exactly what I said wasn’t going to happen.
“Actually it’s been a real moment for me, because I spent a lot of time bonding this time. I said to my manager, I’ve been with her 30 years, I just want six months to really bond.”
The star gushed: “’And those six months were incredible. I’ve given more than probably I did with the others at that age, which I regret in a way, but maybe it took all that to get to this point. I feel really good.”
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