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AT HOME WITH HER PRECIOUS FAMILY , TV PRESENTER KIRSTEN O ’ BRIEN REVEALS HER FIVE-YEAR FERTILITY BAT T LE AND HER JOY AT BEING MUM TO HER LONGED-FOR CHILDREN

‘I always joke about the twins: “You can’t go to university, you’ve already cost a fortune!”’

It is clear to see the joy on Kirsten O’Brien’s face when she plays with her three children at the charming Berkshire home the TV presenter shares with her director husband Mark Drake.

“I’d always pictured our house being full of kids and their friends,” says Kirsten, 48, mum to Fox, eight, and two-and-a-half-year-old twins Indigo and Kit.

“I always wanted to have a bunch of children and now we have that, and it’s absolute lunacy at all times. It couldn’t be better.”

But what Kirsten hasn’t talked about before is the heart-breaking five-year struggle she endured to give Fox a sibling – in

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