‘I want a boy but I won't do gender selection'

Casey Batchelor tells new she hit rock bottom in March, but is now back to her old self and trying for baby number three

- RHONA MERCER

Casey Batchelor is possibly one of the most upbeat and bubbly celebs we’ve ever had to the pleasure of chatting to. So, when the former glamour model tells us she sank into a deep depression over the first lockdown and felt “really, really low”, it’s hard to imagine.

“I don’t really get like that because I’m quite a chilled out person. I’m quite positive,” she tells us.

However, given her circumstances, it’s hardly surprising the Essex-born star was finding life tough. Having just given birth to her second daughter Sadie, now nine months, Casey, her fiancé Dane Goodson and her two-year-old daughter Florence had only been living in their new house for three weeks before lockdown began. They lived miles from their families and Dane was out at work all day, while a sleep-deprived Casey looked after both kids by herself.

“It was full-on,” she admits.

But the Casey we’re talking to today is in a very different place, and tells us how happy she is as she answers our questions from her garden, wrapped up in a coat and sipping a cup of coffee. In fact, the 36-year-old former CBB star is feeling so much better that she’s decided she wants to start trying for a third baby. Gulp. Casey reveals she and Dane, 32, would love to have a boy this time, but that they’ve rejected the offer of gender selection treatment, choosing instead to let nature take its course.

Here, Casey tells us all about her Christmas plans, why her mum thinks her baby plan is insane and changing her mind about her dream wedding…

Hi Casey. How did you cope during the first lockdown with two young kids?