Kylie Minogue is once again the woman of the moment, fronting her own three-part Netflix documentary, titled Kylie. The series explores the singer's incredible life, including both of her battles with cancer, the second of which she kept private until now.
In the documentary, Kylie explained that at the time of her diagnosis, she delayed starting treatment due to her desire to have a child. In the third episode, the star confessed: "There's so much more to cancer than you had it, you got through it and you’re fine - or fine for now. I was 36 when I got my diagnosis, so already it's - you need to be thinking about children."
She continued: "I did try. I even postponed my chemotherapy to try, which was quite scary at the time because you just want it out. Gone. I want to feel safe, I don’t want this. But yeah, I did try a few times with IVF, always it was with such a thread of hope.
"But I couldn't not try. If it had happened, it would have been just shy of a miracle. But it didn't work out that way. One can't help but wonder what it would have been like - and I'm so close to my family. But it wasn't my path."
In a touching moment, she also read out a letter she had written to her baby "that might have been". The message read: "Distant child, my flower, are you blowing in the breeze? Can you feel me as I breathe life into you, wrapped in a blanket of hope, asleep on a bed of dreams? My step into eternity is not what it might have been. Or not at all - for who knows which way the wind is going to blow? I'm waiting for your whisper."
Previous statements
The Padam Padam singer, 57, was first given the all-clear from breast cancer in 2006, but since her period of ill health, she has been remarkably candid about never having children. In 2019, the Spinning Around hitmaker sat down with Sunday Times Style, opening up about her health and how it has impacted her family plans. "I was 36 when I had my diagnosis, she recalled. "Realistically, you’re getting to the late side of things."
The Can't Get You Out Of My Head singer also spoke about how she has accepted her path as she has become older. "I'm 50 now, and I'm more at ease with my life," Kylie admitted. "I can't say there are no regrets, but it would be very hard for me to move on if I classed that as a regret, so I just have to be as philosophical about it as I can. You've got to accept where you are and get on with it."
Ever the realist, Kylie also said: "Of course, I wonder what that would be like but, your destiny is your destiny and I can't imagine if by some miracle I got pregnant … at this point in my life, I wonder, could I even manage that?'."
Kylie has said that she is open-minded when it comes to potentially being a stepmother. "It would be a lie to say there's not a bit of sadness there, but I don't get caught up in it," she told Elizabeth Day of the Sunday Times. "I can't. I mean, what can I do? And there's a high probability, if/when I meet someone, that they will have children anyway. So I could imagine being a stepmum."
Pondering adoption
Reflecting on her breakup from her partner Andres Velencoso in 2014, Kylie revealed that she may be open to other options when it came to motherhood. The All the Lovers songstress spoke to The Sun at the time, saying that after the split, "Life took a different turn."
It did, however, prompt her to reveal that she would "consider adoption", after having said that "part of my new beginning this year is to accept having a baby of my own might not be for me".
© GettyKylie admitted to having felt "broken" following the split from her then fiancé, Joshua Sasse in February 2017, despite having said that she had "never been that woman, that girl who dreams of walking down the aisle".
Kylie is a doting aunt to her former X Factor judge sister Dannii Minogue's 14-year-old son Ethan and her brother Brendan's 17-year-old son Charles.
