Sue Perkins reveals doctor’s response to infertility news: ‘You’re a lesbian so it’s easier’

Great British Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins has revealed the shocking words that accompanied her devastating infertility diagnosis

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by Jessica Anais Rach |
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Speaking about the moment she was told she could not have kids as a result of a brain tumour the 45-year-old was diagnosed with eight years ago, Sue revealed she was first asked if she was married.

Sue then told the consultant she was a lesbian, upon which the consultant replied:

“Oh, OK. Well, that makes it easier. You’re infertile. You can’t have kids.”

Sue has opened up about her heartbreak in her memoir Spectacles published by the Sunday Times, writing:

“Does not a lesbian have a fallopian tube? Am I not human, and [am] I not somebody who could be a lovely, wonderful mother?"

The comedian, who has long term girlfriend and presenter Anna Richardson, revealed she cried herself hoarse over what felt like a bereavement, adding:

“It really did hit me, as it hits a lot of people, I’m sure, when it’s too late, this is not going to happen. I can’t now have it as an out-of-sight, out-of-mind possibility, lurking.”

In the book Sue cites homophobia and complications from being in a same-sex relationship as reasons she delayed having children, explaining:

"It just felt like I was sitting there with a pencil going, what's the best way to have a daddy? What's the best way to have two mummies? And it just felt like I was sitting there with a f****** pencil in my hand, and this isn't the way to start being a mother, and that's what was really painful."

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