Katie Price’s new Channel 4 docuseries, Katie Price: Making Babies, has faced backlash after airing earlier this week. The two-part series, which follows Katie and her then-partner Carl Woods through their IVF journey, premiered on Monday and concluded on Tuesday night. The show, filmed in 2023, captures their visits to fertility clinics as they attempt to conceive, only to face an unsuccessful outcome before their eventual breakup.
Among those criticising the show is Nikki Manashe, fiancée of Katie’s ex-husband Alex Reid. Nikki, 38, who has been open about her own struggles with fertility, took to social media to express her disapproval. In a now-deleted post, she described the show as “attention-seeking dribble,” adding that she found it “sickening” to watch.
Nikki and Alex, who were married to Katie from 2010 to 2012, have been candid about their own IVF journey and the challenges they’ve faced in conceiving. The couple, who now have three children together, have been through multiple rounds of IVF and experienced miscarriages. Nikki, an IVF blogger, explained in her post that, as someone who had endured years of grief and physical and emotional trauma, including nearly dying from an ectopic pregnancy, she could not understand how Katie would go through IVF treatment for financial gain or media attention.
In the now-deleted message, Nikki wrote: “As an IVF survivor, who’s struggled through many years of grief, mourning the loss of pregnancies, nearly dying from an ectopic pregnancy resulting in my fallopian tubes being removed and the mental struggles like so many others… I am sickened to the core to see such attention-seeking dribble on the TV for financial gain and cheap headlines. I can’t understand how any IVF clinic would ever go ahead with treatment on a person like this.”
Nikki later seemed to address the situation further in a more recent Instagram post, writing about the emotional toll of the day, marking 15 years since her mother’s passing. She explained that while her earlier post had been taken down, she wanted to express her personal feelings about the series.
She wrote: “So today marks 15 years since my mum passed. Emotions have been high. I heard about a TV programme that aired last night and was shocked about the content and context of the programme. My post has now been taken down as it’s not my personality to be drawn into drama. I let my emotions rule my narrative. After struggling for so many years and now reliving it seeing my close friends struggling to conceive and who simply can’t afford IVF after having IUI treatments.”
Nikki added, “All they want is one baby to call their own and to see someone abuse this path for media publicity is so wrong. I continue to have my own thoughts on this matter and invite you to all make up your own opinions and draw your own conclusions.”
The heated reactions to Katie Price’s IVF show highlight the deep emotional impact of fertility struggles, with many viewers questioning the ethics of turning such a personal journey into a public spectacle.