Body-positive influencer Chessie King, who has nearly 700,000 followers, has revealed a simple technique that helped her cope with the pain of self-administering injections during her IVF journey. King, who is currently expecting her second child, shared the tip during an appearance on Giovanna Fletcher's 'Happy Mum Happy Baby' podcast, released on March 10.
King, who welcomed her daughter Auraelia via caesarean section in July 2021, has been open about her struggles to conceive a second child. She discussed a miscarriage she experienced in 2025 and the challenges of IVF, which medical professionals recommended as the 'safest way' for her to conceive due to her left ovary being attached to her uterus and her endometriosis diagnosis.
The process required King to self-administer 148 injections into her stomach, leg or thigh. She initially found this extremely difficult but discovered that focusing on a sweet taste significantly reduced the discomfort. 'Pop a bit of chocolate – if you don't like chocolate, a sweet, or something that you savour – and pop it in just before you're about to inject and just focus on the taste,' she advised. 'It's so weird, you genuinely don't feel them as much.'
King explained that she would melt a specific chocolate in her mouth before injecting, allowing the taste to distract her brain. 'All I could taste and think about was what I was eating. It was amazing! It was like my brain was just like tricking,' she said. She eventually came to 'love' the injections, as they helped her conceive her second child.
During the podcast, King also spoke candidly about managing her husband's postnatal depression and how that difficult period nearly ended their marriage.
