The two-part documentary follows Price (already a mother of five at 45) as she tries to have a baby with her new partner – 34-year-old Carl Woods – via IVF. And while the tone of the series is nuanced, both fly on the wall and confessional, it’s hard not to feel that we’re seeing more than we should. Certainly, the endless pelvic exams are the least intimate thing about it.
Price and Woods are clearly desperate for a baby (Photo: Channel 4/Captive Minds)
Deciding to press on with treatment against the odds, Price begins taking hormones to stimulate her ovaries. Whether it’s down to the drugs or not, the couple’s bickering takes on a new ferocity. “You should be more tender to me – you’re so blasé about it and it pisses me off,” says Price. Giving Woods a peck goodbye as she goes off to have the eggs collected, she is visibly dejected, half-joking: “He never frenches me anymore.”
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Read MoreThose struggles will be familiar (and therefore comforting) to many viewers facing fertility problems. Yet, the series is inflected with an emotional rawness that no one – neither its protagonists nor producers – seem totally in control of.
While both Price and Woods are snappy, there’s nothing especially wrong with how anyone’s behaving. Still, it feels exploitative, especially considering Price’s recent financial trouble. I couldn’t help but wonder whether part of her motivation for making the programme was to solve a cash flow problem – her prerogative, of course, but its high-stakes subject matter deserves more sensitivity than it receives here.
Price with her first-born son, Harvey (Photo: Channel 4/Captive Minds)Price’s approach to those questions has always been to intervene, as though to correct a deficit – as of August 2024, she has had 17 boob jobs and six facelifts. Her attitude to her reproductive struggles seem no different. With two eggs retrieved, spirits are high as the opening episode draws to a close. But while it’s tempting to hope along with Price and Woods, the disharmony in their relationship makes the best outcome of the treatment unclear. I finished unsure how to feel, and hoping that Price would weather this thousandth storm despite her gawping audience.
‘Katie Price: Making Babies’ continues tomorrow at 10pm on Channel 4
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