The One Show host Alex Jones has revealed fears she may have left it too late to start a family.
The BBC presenter, 39, admitted to a conference on fertility that she did not realise her age could cause problems.
Alex said that until she married her husband Charlie Thompson in December last year, she had not considered potential complications, reports WalesOnline.
Jones said she and her husband have not yet started trying for a baby "in earnest" but it had taken a while for the reality of her age to sink in.
"For me the penny didn't drop. I thought, I've just met this boy, I've got this lovely job, that I absolutely, to this day, adore, although it's not more important than a family - I'd like to be really clear about that," she said.
The remarks came during the Fertility Health Summit which has heard that young women's desire for a career is one of the main factors in delaying pregnancy.
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Jones complained she has been labelled a "career girl" and added: "I just happen to have a career and, while you're waiting for a family, why wouldn't you try your best and do the job to the best of your advantage?"
Speaking at the conference at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, in London, which was convened by the British Fertility Society and the college's Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Jones said there was a lack of information available to young women.
She said the topic was "a bit of a murky pond" and criticised the lack of action taken by those in the NHS to ask about family planning, and educate patients about IVF and fertility.
She added that some doctors were too embarrassed to ask questions about sex: "You have to have those honest conversations in order to establish where people are.
"(My husband and I) haven't started trying in earnest, so we don't know."
The Welsh host also criticised the IVF "postcode lottery" saying it was "unfair" that in her hometown of Carmarthenshire, south Wales, people got multiple attempts at IVF on the NHS, while in her current home in West London, people were rarely given any.
