I want to run two marathons... and have two babies

X Factor favourite Alexandra on her plans for the future

- BY JANINE YAQOOB and SARAH ROBERTSON

SINGER and actress Alexandra Burke knows what she wants out of life - and it involves getting fit and expanding her family.

The X Factor favourite, who is already a mum of two, can't wait to have more kids with her fiance, footballer Darren Randolph.

But first, the 36-year-old wants to run two marathons.

Alexandra says: "I'm going to do London next year and, by the grace of God, New York. And then think about more children.

"I'm desperate for more - we'd love four - but we're good with whatever the universe gives us because we're very lucky to even have two.

"We'd love to try, but just not right now.... we're fitness freaks at the minute.

"I'm loving work and enjoying just being a mum and an actress."

The former X Factor winner says her health came into focus eight years ago when she lost her mum, the Soul II Soul singer Melissa Bell at the age of 53. She was diabetic and suffered kidney failure.

Alexandra says that taking care of herself became even more of a priority after the arrival of her children, aged three and two.

She and Darren have never publicly shared their names or gender in a bid to help keep them out of the limelight.