Tana Ramsay Recalls How Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Low Sperm Count’ and Her PCOS Made Starting a Family Difficult

Gordon Ramsay and Tana Ramsay’s path to a large family was not easy.

“We got engaged in August, married in December, and then we knew right away that we wanted to try for a baby, but it didn’t happen,” Tana, 50, said on the Aug. 27 episode. Happy mom Happy baby podcast. “You spend your entire youth trying not to get pregnant and then… you don’t think it’s going to be a problem, especially since you’re so young.”

The couple married almost 28 years ago and today have six children – Megan, 26, twins Jack and Holly, 24, Matilda “Tilly”, 22, Oscar, 5, and Jesse, 9 months.

But before their first child, Tana says she felt like a “failure” when she couldn’t get pregnant right away. She went to “check” all the problems with the doctor and discovered that she had polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). “The first thing [I] the question was, ‘Does that mean I’ll never be a mother?'”

Tana said she has very mild PCOS, but it was still a wake-up call that “life doesn’t always go as planned.”

Gordon Ramsay with Megan, Tilly, Jack, Holly and wife Tana (2016).

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Gordon, now 57, also faced fertility challenges.

“Gordon was also told that he had a slightly lower sperm count, so I think it helped that we both had a little problem, which together caused the problem, but that doesn’t mean that the focus was only on one of us,” revealed Tana.

Gordon and Tana used in vitro fertilization (IVF) for all their children except Tilly. After their first round of IVF, Tana became pregnant with Megan.

“We were very lucky, but we had the problem of not having an easy road,” she said. “It was resolved very quickly and we got Meg.”

Also during Happy mom Happy baby episode, Tana revealed that her Michelin-starred chef husband was not in the delivery room when their four oldest children were born. She told host Giovanni Fletcher that she was “happy” with their choice.

Gordon Ramsay and his Oscar and Jesse.

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“It was just good for me” to have Gordon out there, she said, adding, “He would have gotten all worked up and probably passed out and all the attention would have been on him, and this is my moment.”

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“It never really bothered me and I actually felt quite happy when we talked about it,” Tana said.

She recalled their conversation about the decision: “I said, ‘Look, if you don’t want to be there, don’t be.’

Her mom was in the room instead of her.

While he excused himself with the first four births, Gordon was there when they had their two youngest children, Oscar and Jesse.

“I don’t know what has changed; he just wanted to be there. I felt it would be nice,” said Tana.

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