Jake Quickenden reveals he’s already planning another child just weeks after becoming a dad
JAKE Quickenden is loving being a dad so much he’s already planning on having another child.
The reality TV star and his girlfriend Sophie Church would love a baby girl to complete their family.
Last month the loved-up couple gave birth to baby Leo Oliver, their first child together.
They also have Fred, seven, who is Sophie’s from a previous relationship.
Revealing they want more kids Jake, who says he will marry Sophie, 27, said: “Being a dad is the best feeling in the whole world.
“Leo is the most beautiful, loved, special boy in the world. I can’t explain how much I love him.
“I imagine we will try for a little girl after a year or so because I don’t want to leave too much of an age gap.
“I know Soph would love a little girl and so would I. It would just complete our family.”
Jake, 32, revealed the arrival of baby Leo had been even more emotional after the death of his dad Paul, in 2008, and brother Oliver, 2012, to cancer.
“We’ve had a lot of years of having people and things taken away from us’, Jake said.
“This baby is instead adding to the family and making it bigger again.
“It’s exciting to be adding another Quickenden to the family rather than losing one.”
Jake now wants to be the best dad he possibly can be to give his son everything his dad gave him.
He said: “Losing my dad and my brother will shape the kind of dad I am.
“My dad was a strict guy but he was always my best mate and that’s the relationship I want with my kids.
“I could have a laugh and take the piss out of him like mates but he would never let me cross a line and taught me how to behave.
“He was lots of fun, but also firm and fair.
“I just want to be a fun stupid dad who makes my kids feel like they can come to me with any problems.”
The couple are currently on MTV’s new reality TV show Celebrity Bumps: Famous and Pregnant.
But they turned down big buck offers to reveal the birth of baby Leo in a glossy magazine deal.
“We had been approached to do a magazine for the birth but we decided not to do that,” he said.
“We did a magazine deal to announce we were pregnant but this feels a bit more personal so we decided to just do it ourselves over social media.”
Jake recently hit out at sick trolls who had been targeting baby Leo.
But he vowed to not let the vile abuse change who he is and what he does for a living.
He added: “I am going to keep putting myself out there. I have some more TV shows coming up this year so you can’t get rid of me.
“I don’t mind the trolling myself but I would obviously never want Sophie, Fred, or Leo to have to deal with it.
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“It can be really horrible and really upsetting but it is part of the fame.
“Without social media I probably wouldn’t be where I am now so you kind of just have to accept it and try not let it bother you and not let them win.”
Celebrity Bumps: Famous and Pregnant is on every Wednesday at 8pm on MTV.