Ruth Langsford would have split with Eamonn Holmes if he told her he didn’t want children.
The 59-year-old TV presenter tried to suss out Eamonn – who has kids Declan, 30, Rebecca, 28, and Niall, 26, from his first marriage – on their second date by asking if he wanted to have more offspring further down the line.
Speaking on ‘Loose Women’, the show anchor said: "I always knew, way before I met Eamonn, in my grand plan of life I saw myself as a mother, I wanted to have children.
"So, when I met him and I obviously knew he had three children from his first marriage, I did that really quickly. It was kind of like our second date.
"I didn’t just sit him down and go, ‘Hi, it’s lovely to see you. Can I have a wine please? Now, children…’
"I didn’t do that, but I kind of engineered the conversation and said, ‘You’ve got children and I appreciate if you didn’t want any more,’ because I didn’t want to go down that road of, ‘I could feel where that was going where we were falling in love.’ "
The pair have been together since 1997 and welcomed their son Jack, 17, in 2002 before tying the knot in 2010.
However, the ‘This Morning’ co-hosts wouldn’t have found their happy every after if Eamonn, 59, didn’t want any more kids.
Ruth added: "If he’d said, ‘No, I don’t want children,’ I would have totally understood. He had three wonderful children, and I would have said, ‘You know, it’s been lovely, let’s not take this any further because we’re gonna break each other’s hearts because I’ll either pretend that I don’t want them then resent you.’ "
Ruth Langsford would have dumped Eamonn Holmes if he didn’t want children
