Natalie Imbruglia clarifies her decision to become a single mother via a sperm donor

Natalie Imbruglia has explained why she became a single mother using a sperm donor.

The Torn singer, 51, became a first-time mom in 2019 when she welcomed her son Max after undergoing several rounds of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment and she's now opened up about why she decided to start a family while she was single - insisting she didn't choose the process "over being with a man" and was just battling her "biological clock".

During an appearance on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast, Natalie explained: "I think it's really interesting that people frame it or they did with me that somehow I'd chosen this over being with a man.

"And for all the men out there, that's absolute rubbish. Like it wasn't some kind of: 'I don't need a man or you know women can do this and not have a man in their life'.

"It really upset me ... because that was not the case. We just find ourselves in a situation where there's a biological clock and you know a decision needs to be made.

"Thank God for medicine that we're able to have that option because women before us didn't have that option.

"So yeah, just wanted to say that for the men because it makes me really sad that that's just really not fair on men to say that that it was a choice like that."