‘It turns out everything is not that great’: Former My Kitchen Rules star Ash Pollard reveals shock medical diagnosis
Ash Pollard rose to fame on the 2015 season of My Kitchen Rules and now co-hosts a Hit Network radio program on the Central Coast with Daniel Gawned.
On Monday, the 34-year-old revealed she’s been undergoing tests to ensure her reproductive system ‘was A-OK’.
‘It turns out everything is not that great – which is frightening. It turns out I have polycystic ovarian syndrome,’ she said.
Devastating: Former MKR star Ash Pollard (pictured) made a tearful on-air confession on Monday over her shock medical diagnosis
Ash revealed this meant she may have trouble starting a family and have to undergo IVF treatment to fall pregnant.
‘I got a bit upset… being 32 (I’ve) been committed to my career so it does make me sad as you get older… we’re on the clock,’ she said through tears.
Ash, who has been dating her boyfriend Pete Ferne, 35, since 2017, admitted she now feels forced to choose between her career or having a baby.
Choice: After finding out she has polycystic ovarian syndrome, Ash now feels she may have to choose between her career of starting a family (pictured with her niece)
‘All I want to do is keep going leaps and bounds in my career but now I’m like, what do I do? Do I think about my career or do I think about having a kid?’ she said.
The confession came after the former reality star delivered a eulogy for the show which launched her career after MKR: The Rivals was smashed in the ratings.
Speaking on her radio show at the start of the month, Ash admitted the Channel Seven program had given her a career, and deserved a ‘Eulogy’ after agreeing that it was, ‘the end of an era – allegedly’.
Perfect match: Ash who has been dating her boyfriend Pete Ferne (pictured) since 2017
Ash said at length: ‘We are gathered here today to celebrate the long and successful life of MKR. The show that has somehow managed to stay afloat among its competitors for nearly a decade.
‘The show that gave me a leg up into the entertainment industry, dubbing me socialite and villain. The show that divided the nation and in turn gave me everything,’ she continued.
‘According to Gawndy, without that show, I would be living on the Gold Coast with mum and dad and zero opportunity. How will the citizens of Australia cope with the end of what is one of the longest-running reality shows?’
Where it all began: Ash rose to fame on the 2015 season of Channel Seven’s My Kitchen Rules (pictured with partner Camilla Counsel)
Ash went on to thank the judges for teaching her cooking skills.
She then added: ‘Thank you for making it glaringly obvious how bats**t crazy the majority of people to compete on such a show. They are not normal.
‘You gave me life, an appreciation for cookery and media and I am eternally grateful to you. May you rest in peace and have no regrets about televising an all star series which inevitably probably led to your demise. Probably because I wasn’t on it.’
Off the boil! Ash delivered an on-air eulogy for My Kitchen Rules after MKR: The Rivals was smashed in the ratings by Married At First Sight (pictured Manu Feildel and Colin Fassnidge)