Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was desperate to have a baby with her best friend – but she was too frail
Socialites health was ‘too frail’ for IVF
TARA Palmer-Tomkinson offered to be a surrogate mother for her gay pal, it has emerged.
The tragic socialite had reportedly wanted her close friend Ivan Massow to help her become a mum.
But it is said that her health made it impossible.
Mr Massow told the : “About six years ago when she knew I wanted to have a baby, we talked about the possibility of her carrying my child.
“We looked into it but realised that as she was already 38 by then (and really quite frail) it wouldn’t be possible for her to have IVF.
“When she realised it wasn’t going to happen she started making jokes about it in that rather stoic way of hers.”
Police said Tara’s death in Kensington, South West London, was “unexplained” and that they were keeping an open mind over the cause.
Related stories
Tara, who appeared in I’m a Celebrity in 2002, revealed in November that she had been diagnosed with a non-malignant brain tumour and worried that it could kill her.
Tara’s blood tests also revealed that she was suffering from a rare auto-immune condition, related to her anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA-related), in which abnormal antibodies attack the body’s cells and tissues.
Left untreated the condition – which occurs in roughly one in every 50,000 people – can eat away at your lungs and kidneys.
It is thought she was suffering from the condition – which can cause weakness, blood-filled urine and red spots on the skin – for 18 months before it was diagnosed.
She also battled addiction to cocaine and other drugs.
And friends told last night how they feared she may have relapsed at a party in Mayfair before Christmas.
We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368.
