Sophie’s single fear
‘I don’t want to be a mum on my own’
A CLUCKY Sophie Monk has revealed her fears over becoming a single mother as she celebrated her 38th birthday on the Gold Coast yesterday.
“If I did it (have a baby) by myself, I think I’d find it really difficult. And also lonely. So I mean I’d love to and ... I wasn’t clucky until about now,” she said, leaving partner Stu Laundy behind in Sydney as she joined her family in Queensland.
“But now I’m like, yeah, I feel like I’m missing out (by not being a mum).”
She added: “It’s when I feel settled in a relationship, I would like to. I’d want support of a partner.”
Monk is yet to freeze her eggs, saying she has to “find the time”, but admits at 38 she is aware she has to do it sooner rather than later.
She also said it was a much trickier process for a woman than a man.
“All they have to do is go to a sperm bank and enjoy themselves.
“And we have to go and tackle these hormones and go and have the eggs extracted and so it goes. It’s so unfair! Being a woman is just so much harder work.”
She will spend the next week on the Coast before jetting to Canadian ski resort, Silverstar, around Christmas.
After relentless media spotlight since The Bachelorette, Monk and Laundy will attempt to “lay low” before Monk is due to shoot her new series, Nine’s Love Island, in Spain in May.
“I’m not sure whether (Stu) will get up to the Goldie, but hopefully he will come to Canada with me though,’’ she said.
“He can ski, so he can go off and do that, and I’ll go play with my best friend Oscar and drink wine.
“I want to lay low a little bit, ‘cos I’m sort of like, well, I’m sick of my own head.”
She also expressed interest in returning to radio.