United Kingdom, July 29 -- Whitney Port has abandoned plans to use a surrogate and will be a "vessel" for another baby herself.

The 41-year-old reality star has been frank about her struggles to have a second child with husband Tim Rosenman - with whom she already has eight-year-old son Sonny - and while they originally planned to have another woman carry their baby after Whitney suffered a string of miscarriages, they are now going in a "different direction".

Whitney shared a photo on her Instagram Story of her at a fertility clinic in New York City and wrote: "After all the red tape, the money, the emotions, and just how long everything has taken, we've decided to go in a different direction.

"I'm scared to be the vessel, but I'm eve...