Although she didn't become actively suicidal, she was quoted by Easy Living magazine as saying, "It's the sort of depression that doesn't necessarily make you want to kill yourself - you just don't want to be, you want to switch it off and stop."

Following the birth of her child, she went through further depression when three more cycles of in vitro were unsuccessful. She said, "That was terrible - I blamed myself, and no-one could persuade me that it wasn't my fault - and that led to another depression."

Speaking of her infertility, Thompson said she is "fine about it now."