Gemma Collins reveals plans to become a foster carer on Good Morning Britain after struggling to become a mum ngocc

GEMMA Collins has revealed plans to become a foster carer on Good Morning Britain after struggling to become a mum.

The reality star, 43, said she was inspired by her own mother, who grew up in a foster home.

She shared her plans as the national fostering group warned of a caring crisis.

The Towie star invited Good Morning Britain into her home and told viewers: "I make a good dinner. I've got a lot of love to give."

She said finding her family on Who Do You Think You Are gave her the idea.

One key part of her family history is her mother Joan’s story, who was sadly abandoned at the hospital as a baby.

“Why was she left at the hospital? Why did they never come back for her?” Gemma questioned on the show, before revealing her mother "never talks about it."

“I just think it’s too painful for her to go there,” the star continued.

It comes a year after Gemma told of the devastating moment doctors advised her to terminate her pregnancy after they told her the unborn baby was intersex.

Gemma, 43, sobbed as she candidly opened up on the medical instruction after suffering three previous miscarriages.

She said on the Everything I Know About Me podcast: "Something is not right, they said to me your baby could be a hermaphrodite.

"You can imagine I had no idea what the word was. I had to look it up. It was a real shock.

"They advised me you need to have a termination because this baby is not going to be right."

Gemma got tearful as she added: "In a single instant, I learned that I'd been carrying a baby and lost it, meaning that once again I found my longstanding dreams of motherhood shattered into pieces."

An intersex person is born with both male and female characteristics. This could be genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy or chromosomes and is a spectrum.

Conditions include Partial Androgen Insensitivity in which a person has a vulva, but no womb, and testes.

The term "hermaphrodite" comes from mythology and is preferably not used among people who are intersex, according to interACT, an advocate group for young people who are intersex.

BABY TRAGEDY

Gemma sadly suffered her first miscarriage in 2012.

Eight years later she suffered a second miscarriage during the coronavirus pandemic.

She is now a "bonus mum" to Rami's son Tristan, aged five.

She admitted she was still "holding onto the dream" of becoming a mum last year.

The star, who has polycystic ovary syndrome, said: "I pray every night that everything's going to work out for me.

"Having a miscarriage with someone you love very much was very heartbreaking."

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a common condition that means the ovaries do not regularly release eggs and can make pregnancy difficult.

Gemma's baby hopes were given a boost in December when F Word chef Gordon Ramsay's wife Tana, 49, gave birth to their sixth child.

At the time, she said: "The Tana Ramsay news was the greatest thing to wake up to. Incredible."

"It really made me think positively about my future and kind of took the pressure off.

"I don't think anyone knew she was pregnant, so it was a lovely surprise, but I got butterflies in my stomach when I saw it."