London, Dec 16 : Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm is all set and ready to start a family.

Mel C, better known as "Sporty Spice” is the only member of the band who is not a mother as yet.

She says that she is almost ready to start a family with her surveyor beau Tom Starr.

“I want to be a mum in the next few years. But it hasn’t been the right time yet. I am enjoying the other girls’ children. They are really lovely kids, from the little babies, to Phoenix and Brooklyn, ” The Sun quoted her, as saying.

“And I can give them back at the end of the day. They are lovely and I’ll have me own one day.

“If I had teenage daughters I would be happy for them to have us as role models, ” she added. (ANI)