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Happy Mum

Chessie King on the shocking reality of IVF costs

Happy Mum

Giovanna Fletcher

Pregnancy, Celebrity, Society & Culture, Maternal Mental Health, Breastfeeding, Giovanna Fletcher, Emma Willis, Hormones, Co-parenting, Keira Knightley, Parenting, Kids & Family, Postnatal Depression, Mrs Hinch, Matrescence, Sex, Personal Journals, Kate Middleton

4.85.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Our guest this week is presenter and author Chessie King!


Chessie opens up to Giovanna about navigating her husband’s postnatal depression and the incredibly tough time that left their marriage on the brink of divorce.


She also talks about the emotional journey of trying to conceive again after experiencing fertility struggles.


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mum, Happy Baby, the podcast.

0:10.4

Today's guest is Chessie King, who I absolutely adore.

0:15.2

Actually, I've always claimed I started doing her workouts many, many, many years ago and just fell in love with her joy, her bubbly attitude

0:23.6

and her overall view of what fitnesses for all types of bodies.

0:29.3

She's a presenter of women's sport.

0:31.2

She's an author and founder of Welcome to Babyhood.

0:34.6

She does so much to empower women to really claim who they are, what their

0:40.1

bodies do for them, and to take us away from the patriarchy that tells us that we should look

0:46.8

a certain way and should feel absolutely rubbish if we don't look that way. She had her daughter

0:53.3

Aurelia, in 2021.

0:55.6

She's been with her husband Matthew for a long old time.

0:59.2

And recently, she has been talking a lot about trying to conceive the second time around.

1:05.7

She had a lost last March, which she talks about a little bit in this chat.

1:10.1

And then after a few months

1:11.9

of trying, she basically went down the route of IVF following a stroke that she'd had years and

1:17.0

years ago and the ramifications of that. We also talk about the fact that her husband, Matthew,

1:22.1

had post-nated depression, which I don't think he talks about enough. I say this to her. But

1:26.6

Matthew, you are welcome on whenever you like.

1:29.7

So here we go.

1:30.7

It's Had Mom Had Baby with Jessie King.

1:35.9

Whenever the NHS squeeze the app comes up, I'm like, shut up, not now.

1:40.8

I'm not ready.

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