Strictly star Amy Dowden reveals how she is keeping hopes alive of one day becoming a mother
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After almost two years of trauma, Strictly dancer Amy Dowden is hanging on to the hope that she will one day become a mother. Having been diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer in May 2023, followed by gruelling chemotherapy, she revealed yesterday that she has frozen five embryos to fulfil her dream of having a family.
![[Ms Dowden said she had an egg retrieval procedure to give her and her husband, fellow dancer Benjamin Jones, a chance for children. Pictured: Ms Dowden dancing with Tom Fletcher]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/23/93727795-14248843-image-a-13_1735948669988.jpg)
Ms Dowden, 34, who also had a mastectomy, announced last February that she had ‘no evidence of disease’. Before her chemotherapy, she had an egg retrieval procedure to give her and her husband, fellow dancer Benjamin Jones, a chance for children. Speaking on the What If? podcast with Lorraine Kelly and her daughter Rosie, the professional dancer said: ‘Obviously we would love a family, and we’ve got embryos because I’ve got a hormone-fed cancer, so I was put into early menopause.
![[Ms Dowden dancing with JB Gill on Strictly Come Dancing on October 19]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/23/93727799-14248843-image-a-14_1735948677958.jpg)
‘So in a couple of years, when they feel it’s safe, hopefully we’ll have the opportunity. And, if not, there’s still lots of other opportunities, which we have spoken about. So hopefully in years to come we’ll be lucky enough to become parents.’.
![[Ms Dowden had to drop out of Strictly in spring 2023 after discovering a lump in her breast the day before her honeymoon]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/23/93727797-14248843-image-a-15_1735948681143.jpg)
Strictly star Amy Dowden has revealed she has frozen five embryos to fulfil her dream of becoming a mother. Ms Dowden said she had an egg retrieval procedure to give her and her husband, fellow dancer Benjamin Jones, a chance for children. Pictured: Ms Dowden dancing with Tom Fletcher.
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