Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are close to settling down and having a child.

Star magazine says the couple will undergo fertility treatment in the not-so-distant future.

DeGeneres has recently said that once her contract expires in 2010 the women would like to move out of the spotlight and onto a rural farm.

De Rossi has also been quoted as saying she would like children sometime soon. “There are times when I think I’d be really selfish not to adopt a child. It’d be great to spend our lives with somebody, a little child that really needs a home.”

However, the couple have decided on using IVF to conceive a child of their own. Sources say they would really love to have a baby boy.