has slammed doctors for deliberating adding to 'hysteria and fear' around women's infertility by calling her eggs 'geriatric'.
The Strictly star, 38, is fronting a documentary, Maybe Baby?, with in which viewers see her contemplating starting a family and the various paths to parenthood.
Vicky was told by her doctors she had geriatric eggs, and speaking to the Radio Times, she said: 'It's misogynistic language, and I think it's deliberate, adding to the hysteria and fear.'
'I feel passionately that egg freezing should be more affordable, and we should be more open about the process'.
'Women deserve to have security and a backup plan.'
She appears on the show with her husband of two years, , with the pair returning to TV after their 2024 reality show, My Big Fat Geordie Wedding.
Vicky Pattison has slammed doctors for deliberating adding to 'hysteria' around women's infertility by calling her eggs 'geriatric'; Pictured during her egg-freezing process in 2023
The couple discuss whether they want a baby, and Vicky can be seen as she admits, 'As a woman you are conditioned to really want kids.'
Vicky has been open with her fans about her fertility journey, with the star candidly documenting the process of , which she started when she was 35. She said she wanted to take control of her fertility, and had the treatment which resulted in three embryos being frozen.'
Announcing the show to her followers on Instagram, she explained how she and her husband had been working for six months to follow their 'record-breaking' wedding show.
She added: 'In this two-part special, we look at what our lives look like post-wedding- the pressure on women to have children, the different ways to be a family, we celebrate alternative routes to motherhood and the fertility issues that many women face.
'In amongst this, we let you in to the chaos of our lives again- busy schedules, our friends, fluffy butts, our families, first years of marriage, our very candid feelings and fears about growing our family... and everything in between... and we are so excited to have you along for the ride!
'Our hopes are that this show will encourage much-needed honest discourse around fertility, more understanding about people choosing different paths and ultimately help us all understand our options better, and I hope we've done this with sensitivity and grace.'
Last year, Vicky Writing on Instagram, she said: 'I WENT TO VISIT OUR EMBRYOS!!!!'
In a 2025 interview with Women's Health UK she admitted that she has a 'huge question mark over motherhood' and that the pressure to have a baby now that she is married is 'suffocating'.
The Strictly star, 38, is fronting a documentary, Maybe Baby? with her husband of two years, Ercan Ramadan in which viewers see her contemplating starting a family
Read the full interview in this week's issue of Radio Times, on sale now
She explained that she had worked so hard for so long to get where she has career wise, that taking a break 'scares her'.
'I'm a huge advocate for egg freezing, although I'm saying that from a position of financial privilege,' she said.
'Women shouldn't be beholden to this invisible timeline. We're fed this narrative that we can have it all and do whatever we want, but it's not necessarily true. In women's lives, there has to be a lot of compromise involved.
'I met Ercan when I was 31 and wanted to give our relationship breathing space…It's been the best thing I've ever done. I felt really suffocated, on a kind of conveyor belt, and now I feel free.'
The former Geordie Shore star also said she and Ercan are 'singing from the same song sheet' about wanting more time to make up their minds about parenthood.
Also speaking on the Women's Health Just as Well podcast with Gemma Atkinson and Claire Sanderson, Vicky explained: 'My mum told me 'If not having children is your trajectory, that's fine,' which I thought was powerful.
'I think we're coming around to the idea as a society that a woman doesn't have to have children to be fulfilled – and, for me, there's still a huge question mark over motherhood.
'I've worked to finally get to a place where I'm proud of who I'm becoming, and the thought of taking a break… it scares me.'
