FELLAS – would you go for the “snip” to stop having kids?
Diversity star , 33, is just one of the thousands of men in the UK who’s had the surgery, alongside the likes of and Hollywood heartthrob Ashton Kutcher.
Jordan Banjo, dancer and presenter, is married to Naomi Banjo (formerly Courts), and they have three children together: Cassius Ashley, Mayowa Angel (“Mimi”), and Atreus FunsoCredit: Instagram/@jordanbanjo
The I’m A Celebrity alumnus is this week’s guest of Fabulous’ No Parental Guidance podcastCredit: Instagram/@jordanbanjo
The Diversity star, 33, is just one of the thousands of men in the UK who’s had the snip
Jordan, who is dad to Cassius, seven, Mimi, six, and Atreus, two, previously told us his wife Naomi, 34, would love to have another kid – but insisted he .
The I’m A Celebrity alumni, who hit back back at , is this week’s guest of Fabulous’ No Parental Guidance podcast where he talked all things parenting, unplanned pregnancies (he’s had three!) and braving the snip.
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“When I found out my wife was pregnant, I was 24 – certainly wasn’t planning to have any kids at that point,” he told hosts and Louise Boyce.
“She came in, showed me the test and I laughed solidly for about 20 minutes – and then, point blank refused to talk about it for about two months,” said Jordan, admitting that he felt “ashamed” about his behaviour now – as it was Naomi’s first time becoming a parent too.
“I was petrified, none of my friends had kids, my older – he didn’t have any kids at the time – no one around me had children,” Jordan said.
“I just didn’t know what to expect.”
When the couple eventually welcomed Cassius, the baby was suffering from reflux – which, at the time and with very limited knowledge, Jordan thought was normal.
“In my head, I was like, ‘Babies throw up’. So when he was first born, I was petrified, no idea what I was doing and every time I went near him, he just screamed,” he told the two mums.
“When he was first born, I honestly thought, ‘This kid is not gonna survive two weeks, I’m gonna mess it up’.”
Six months after welcoming Cassius, the pair fell pregnant again – despite wanting to stop at one child at the time.
The birth of Mimi gave the loved-up pair a little girl and a little boy – and this is when Jordan decided that this was “perfect” and he’d be getting a vasectomy.
Jordan, who said , was just 25 when he booked the appointment in 2020 – but when lockdown struck it was cancelled.
Then came another surprise during their – unbeknown to the couple, they were to become parents once again.
“At the wedding she was like, ‘I feel a bit weird’ – she had, like, one glass of champagne,” Jordan recalled the shock discovery.
At the airport on the way to their honeymoon, things became real once again.
“I remember I was in the queue for KFC and she went, ‘I’m gonna go to the toilet. I checked my app, I am late – I’m gonna do the ,'” Jordan remembered.
“Across the terminal, she walked out, I saw her face and went….
“I walked straight out of the queue – I was like, ‘I’ve lost my appetite’.
“She walked over, sat down with me and went, ‘Yeah, it’s positive’,” said Jordan who then committed to having a vasectomy before their youngest was born.
The operation works to block sperm being released during ejaculation – by cutting, blocking or sealing a man’s tubes.
The NHS explains: “This prevents sperm from reaching the seminal fluid (semen), which is ejaculated from the penis during sex.
“There will be no sperm in the semen, so a woman’s egg can’t be fertilised.”
Jordan said: “I promise you now, the actual procedure must’ve been a maximum […] of about two minutes.”
He added: “The only thing that was gross is you can hear the cut and […] then they cinch either end and then that’s it. The cut is so tiny.
“I was there for two minutes, I sat up and he was like, ‘That’s it’.”
Despite experiencing brutal swelling the same night, the dad-of-three felt completely ”fine” a few days later, although there was some “blood” when he first ejaculated after the procedure.
“It hasn’t happened since. But […] it scared the life out of me,” he told the hosts.
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