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Katie Price has had two failed attempts at (IVF).

The former glamour model - who has sons Harvey, eight, Junior, five and daughter Princess, three, from previous relationships – and her cage-fighter husband Alex Reid are keen to have a child of their own but have now had two unsuccessful rounds of fertility treatment.

Katie – who spoke about the first course of treatment in her new book 'You Only Live Once' said: "I've actually done two IVFs and in that book I only talk about having one.

 "But both times they didn't work. The second time seemed to be more successful, but yet again day 12, and then you start to bleed and you think, 'Is it working?' But then you get the phone call from the doctor saying it hasn't. And it is quite traumatic on your body I must say."

Katie also admitted she found undergoing the treatment doubly hard because of the scrutiny her body received due to side-effects of the hormone injections she was taking.

She explained: "It did hurt me because in the papers at the time they said I was looking fat or pregnant and I just thought that's really out of order. Because when you're having injections, your ovaries expand so of course you're going to look like you've got a tummy and it's like they’re tempting fate. I felt like phoning them up and saying, 'I'm going through IVF and I'm injecting myself and I’m needle phobic,' but what can you do?"

However, the 32-year-old star isn't giving up and knows it will eventually happen.

She said in an interview on UK TV show 'This Morning': "Just because I've got kids, it doesn't me I can fall pregnant with someone else and it is quite a traumatic thing, because to do IVF again you have to wait a couple of months for your body to recover from the last attempt.

"It will happen when it's supposed to happen."

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