Casey Donovan has revealed that she and her fiancée Renee Sharples are planning to start a family.
The Australian Idol winner, 37, and her partner, 40, are currently going through the IVF process, with Casey undergoing egg retrieval.
‘We’ve spoken about it and Renee is now over 40, so she’s gone through and done her retrievals and whatnots,’ Casey told news.com.au on Sunday.
‘And then I was like, well, I need to find some time to get mine out.’
She continued: ‘This has always been an option, and now I’m just starting to action everything because I’m not getting any younger, as the doctors keep telling me.’
Casey struggles with polycystic ovary syndrome (POS) which makes falling pregnant more difficult, and that was an additional motivation to undergo egg retrieval.
Casey Donovan has revealed that she and her fiancée Renee Sharples are planning to start a family. Both pictured
The process has at times been difficult for the singer, who has been taking part in the Marcia Sings Summer tour.
‘On the first retrieval, I got 26 eggs and the second one was 28. So that’s a big thing for your body to have to go through and get back on stage,’ she said.
Casey announced her engagement to her long-time partner in June last year.
Showing off her massive diamond ring, the theatre star cuddled up to her girlfriend as she shared in the caption the wholesome moment Renee got down on bended knee.
‘21.06.24 on the strawberry moon of the winter solstice the love of my life asked me if I wanted to do this life together forever,’ Casey wrote.
‘The day I met you, home was no longer a place it became a person and yes, you are a gypsy but there’s nobody else I would rather attach my wagon to on this beautiful road trip called life’ and with that, I said yes!’
During an appearance on The Project earlier this year, Casey gave an insight into how the planning of the nuptials is progressing.
‘We keep chatting about it and we’re like: “Do we have something big? Do we have something small?”‘ she wondered aloud.
The Australian Idol winner, 37, and her partner, 40, are currently going through the IVF process, with Casey undergoing egg retrieval
Casey announced her engagement to her long-time partner in June last year
‘Do we just run away and do it ourselves and then throw a party? Which I haven’t told Renee, I’m so sorry,’ she said to her fiancée down the camera.
Casey met Renee, a lecturer in paramedicine, on dating app Bumble and the pair set up video dates on Zoom during COVID lockdown in 2020.
‘I was nervous and excited to make a connection with Renee, and when we finally connected her banter was great and she seemed very lovely,’ Casey told Woman’s Day.
‘When I logged into our first Zoom date and saw that Renee had set it up in a café, it was so sweet… [It was] even better when she asked me what kind of coffee I wanted,’ she added.
Renee admitted that she recognised Casey from Australian Idol but ‘didn’t have any preconceived ideas about who she was’.
‘We didn’t really see this in our near future; it was very unexpected. But we’re having the best time doing life together and I could not be happier,’ she said.
