Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke has emotionally opened up about the heartbreaking journey he and his wife, Hannah, endured in their struggle to become parents — a battle marked by her severe endometriosis. The beloved BBC favourite, 58, married marketing executive Hannah in 2017 after the pair met at the exclusive Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey.
Despite the odds, the couple joyfully welcomed twins George and Henrietta shortly after tying the knot, thanks to IVF. But behind the scenes was a deeply personal struggle, which Anton recently revealed in a heartfelt interview on Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast.
Opening up like never before, Anton spoke about Hannah’s fears that she might never be able to have children due to her condition, which he described as “peculiar, cruel, and inexplicable.” The ballroom star recalled: “I knew I wanted to be with her. I saw her with her nephews — she’s so kind and so caring. I just couldn’t understand the universe.”
Quoting what he imagined the forces above were saying, he added: “‘You are the most perfect person to have children, but I’m going to give you this instead. I’m going to give you endometriosis, and you’re going to suffer with it your whole life. And I won’t let you have children.’”
“It just didn’t make sense to me. It felt cruel. And if I ever meet whoever’s upstairs, I’d tell them — you got this wrong. This doesn’t make sense,” Anton added with raw emotion, according to reports from Devon Live.
Anton spoke movingly about the IVF journey that followed — one that eventually brought them their beloved twins but not without emotional and physical cost. “Then we went through IVF… for crying out loud,” he said. “You girls are extraordinary. As much as I want to get involved, all I can do is hold your hand. It makes me emotional every time I talk about it.”
He didn’t shy away from describing the brutal toll the treatment took on Hannah: “She had all these injections and bruises — in the bum, in the thigh, in the stomach. And you want to help but what can you do? You feel helpless. All you can do is say, ‘Tell me what you need,’ but it never feels like enough.”
The star admitted that before Hannah, he had no idea what endometriosis really meant. Their experience, he said, opened his eyes to how little attention and funding women’s health issues receive, calling for urgent government action.
“You feel so inadequate,” he continued. “You want to do so much more, but you can’t do anything. That’s why you girls are extraordinary. You do all this, and it’s incredible.”
The couple’s bond only deepened through the ordeal, culminating in the joyful arrival of George and Henrietta — a moment that turned both their marriage and their lives into something magical, against all odds.
Source: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/
