EastEnders star, Jo Joyner, has spoken of her joy to be pregnant and of her struggle to conceive.

Jo plays Tanya Branning on the BBC One soap, and is currently heavily pregnant with twins.

“You go for fertility tests and we found out it was unlikely we’d have children naturally so we went for it,” she told OK magazine.

“We’re quite young and there was still a chance we could conceive, so we decided to give it three tries and if it didn’t work out, we’d reassess and look into adoption.

“We’re very lucky. It’s a miracle really. That’s why we’re not secretive about it.”

She also spoke of how hard she found the whole IVF process.

She added: “It’s bearable physically – you have to inject yourself, which is obviously nothing like making love, which is what everyone else gets to do to make babies.”