Amanda Holden: I would be dead if i had another child

TV star Amanda Holden has revealed she is not allowed to have any more children over fears it could kill her.

The 44-year-old, who has two daughters, gave birth to a stillborn baby Theo when she was 28 weeks' pregnant in 2011 and then suffered complications during the birth of her second daughter Hollie a year later.

In an interview with Good Housekeeping magazine, the Britain's Got Talent judge, who is married to Chris Hughes, said she had now ruled out the possibility of any more children.

She said: "I'm not allowed. I would be dead the next time. And I think Chris would say you can have them but you're not having them with me. I've got the two I'm supposed to have. I just had to complete my family to feel like I could be me."

In the interview she said it was "a really good thing" that she realised she needed to seek therapy.

She said: "My therapist told me I had no more tools or coping mechanism left. She was very good at giving me sentences to say to myself to make me stop panicking about my own mortality.

"I think you have none of these worries unless you've got children. If it had just been me and (husband) Chris (Hughes) and I'd died, it would have been awful for him but nowhere near as bad as a child losing their mother.

Holden, who has two daughters called Alexa and Hollie, added: "It makes you suddenly think, I have to live. I've got to live, but I've got to try and live a good, happy life for me too and I think that's why I faced up to the fact that I needed to speak to somebody. It was a really good thing."