Vicky Pattison, 34, decides to freeze her eggs and has ‘chosen the cougar life’ with toyboy boyfriend Ercan, 28

REALITY star Vicky Pattison has decided to freeze her eggs - to lift the pressure on her to have a family before boyfriend Ercan is ready.

Former I’m A Celeb winner Vicky, 34, who has been dating Ercan Ramadan for over three years, told how she doesn’t want them to rush into having kids.

She said: "I’ve put baby dream on ice I haven’t mourned the loss of my 20s at all… they were completely taken over by feeling insecure, not being confident in my body, feeling lost and not knowing who I could trust.

"Now I am in my 30s, I am going from strength to strength – I know myself and I have contentment.

"I have a man who loves me just as much in my baked bean-stained trackies as when I am dolled up to the nines, having spent three hours in hair and make-up.

"But at 34, I have decided to freeze my eggs. Ercan is only 28 and I have chosen the Cougar life!"

Vicky wants their relationship to progress at a natural pace and not be rushed by her biological body clock

"When I look after my two-year-old niece Mavie, sometimes I cry because she’s not mine!" she added to the Mirror.

"It’s really hard and it’s one of the cruel tricks your body plays on you so I am taking every sort of logical step I can to protect future Vicky."

Vicky was previously engaged to businessman John Noble.

She ended their relationship after he was caught cheating with a mystery woman in Dubai.

But she now says she is glad she went through the heartbreak, because she is now happier than ever.

She told The Sun last year: “It was really s**t, but the worst thing has led to the best thing. And now - it’s taken me a year to say it - but I’m grateful for what I went through.

“After what happened, you’d think I’d have been scared going into a new relationship, but I wasn’t. One man hurt me not all men, they didn’t all get together.

“And if I had stopped trusting then I’d be the one who lost. That would mean that one bad chapter would define my story and my story deserves a happy ending.”