Hip-hop star Missy Elliott is desperate to start having kids - but is too terrified to give birth naturally.

The Work It hit-maker would love to have a family, and is eager to mother a brood of tots, but insists she is too scared to give birth to them herself. And although she may consider becoming impregnated in the future, at the moment she's eager to simply adopt.

She tells People.com, "I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids. I don't know if I can take that kind of pain. Maybe in the year 2020 you could just pop a baby out and it'd be fine. But right now I'd rather just adopt."

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