Kylie Minogue Postponed First Chemotherapy Treatment To Undergo IVF

Kylie Minogue has spoken for the first time about undergoing IVF treatment shortly after being diagnosed with cancer in her mid-30s.

The Grammy winner was 36 years old when she was first told she had breast cancer in 2005, and in her new self-titled Netflix documentary, she shared that having children had already been on her mind around this period of her life.

She began: “There’s so much more to cancer than ‘you had it, you got through it and you’re fine – or fine for now’.

“I was 36 when I got my diagnosis, so already it’s… you need to be thinking about children.”

Kylie continued: “I did try. I even postponed my chemotherapy to try, which was quite scary at the time because you just want [the cancer] out. Gone. [I felt like,] I want to feel safe, I don’t want this.

“I did try a few times with IVF. Always, it was with such a thread of hope. But I couldn’t not try. If it had happened, it would have been just shy of a miracle. But it didn’t work out that way.”

The Confide In Me singer admitted: “One can’t help but wonder what it would have been like. And I’m so close to my family. But it wasn’t my path.”

At this moment in the documentary, she was seen reading out the lyrics to her song Flower, written for her 2008 album X and eventually included on her compilation album The Abbey Road Sessions, which she said was inspired by the child “that might have been”.

Later in the documentary, Kylie shared that she’d privately undergone cancer treatment for a second time after being diagnosed in early 2021.

“I was able to keep that to myself,” she said. “Not like the first time.”

“Thankfully, I got through it. Again,” she added. “And all is well.”

Kylie then recalled: “I just couldn’t [go public with the diagnosis] at the time. Because I was just a shell of a person. I didn’t want to leave the house again at one point.”

All three episodes of Kylie are now streaming on Netflix.