Natalie fulfilled

I’M GUESSING here, but I suspect the last thing Natalie Imbruglia — so sexy at the height of her fame — would have imagined was that at 44 she’d be childless.

As for many women, life didn’t work out the way she’d dreamed.

So, determined to become a mother, the singer (left) used IVF with a sperm donor and is expecting her first child in the autumn.

Any woman who goes through gruelling IVF deserves our respect — those without a partner even more so.

And, while raising a child alone is probably the last thing she wanted, holding her own healthy baby in her arms has always been the first.