New York, Feb 21 : Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi want to start a family, it has emerged.

Apparently, the married couple is set to try to conceive via in-vitro fertilization treatments and are hoping for a boy.

"[Portia] is prepared to go through [IVF] 10 times if she has to," The New York Daily News quoted a source, as saying.

"Whatever it takes to get pregnant, she'll do it," the source added.

The Emmy-award wining talk show host recently revealed the couple plans to step away from the spotlight and live the quiet life on a farm.

DeGeneres and De Rossi married last year in a ceremony at their Beverly Hills home. (ANI)