Emma Bunton, 45, reveals she wants another child but fears it could be too late

Baby Spice Emma Bunton today reveals she has entered the transition stage before the menopause – and faces a race against time to have another child.

In an interview with The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine, the 45-year-old says she delayed trying to get pregnant due to the pandemic but ‘cried her eyes out’ when she discovered it might now be too late to become a mother for a third time.

Describing the symptoms of perimenopause – the body’s natural transition towards the menopause –she says: ‘I started to feel unbalanced and anxious.

‘At first I put it down to the pandemic. But then the anxiety became more regular, until it was daily.

‘I was also lethargic. Something wasn’t right. I looked up the symptoms and saw I had quite a few.

‘So I spoke to someone on Zoom who came to the same conclusion. I was perimenopausal.’

Ms Bunton, the mother of Beau, 13, and Tate, ten, with long-term partner Jade Jones, adds: ‘I thought, ‘Is this the end?’

‘It’s been a very weird time. I’m a very mumsy person – when I see my friends’ babies, I always become broody. But now I thought, ‘OK, this is it.’ ‘

She is now on a low dose of hormone replacement therapy and is undecided about having a third baby.

Describing a Spice Girls tour of the US and Canada in 2007 just weeks after Beau was born, she recalls: ‘Physically, my body wasn’t ready to be doing two-hour shows every night.

‘Your hips don’t move the way they should, I fell over a couple of times backstage. I cried at everything, my skin broke out in rashes.

‘I said to our physio ‘What’s going on?’ and he laughed, ‘What do you mean? You just had a baby!’ ‘

Nowadays she juggles work commitments around the school run, but credits Jade, the former lead singer of R&B band Damage, for her continued success.

‘He makes everything calm. He’s sacrificed a lot,’ she says.