Alex Jones: 'I gave birth at 44 - I was a geriatric mother but it was as wonderful as if I was 30'

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Alex Jones - much-loved presenter of The One Show - has always been refreshingly honest when it comes to her experiences with both fertility, pregnancy and motherhood.

And catching up with OK! this week, the 46-year-old BBC star and mum-of-three recalls her difficult and often emotional journey to becoming a mother.

In 2019, Alex revealed she’d suffered a miscarriage two years prior, just 10 months after the birth of her eldest son Teddy, now five, and later described her third pregnancy with daughter Annie, one – when she was 44 – as a "complete shock".The widely-adored TV host - also mum to three year old son Kit - tells us, "Being a mother is the thing I enjoy and respect the most, because I know how lucky I’ve been.

It’s mad, and of course there are days that are hard but every mother knows that." Despite all three of her pregnancies considered "geriatric" in medical terms due to her age, she wants other older mums-to-be to know that there’s nothing to fear. “People get scared, and there are complications for some people, but if you’re lucky enough to get pregnant at 40-plus, there’s no reason in the world it shouldn’t be as wonderful as if you were 30," she smiles.