Tan France reveals he's ready for baby No. 2 with his husband

• Tan France is Insider's latest digital cover star.
• France told Insider during the interview that he is ready to plan for his second child.

Tan France said he and his husband Rob are planning to have a second child in the next two years during a wide-ranging interview for Insider's latest digital cover.

Last year, Tan — who is best known as one of the hosts on Netflix's "Queer Eye" — welcomed his first child named Ismail with his husband, Rob France.

But the process wasn't easy. Ismail was carried by a surrogate, a service Tan told Insider was expensive and stressful. Ismail also arrived seven weeks early and spent the first three weeks of his life in an intensive care unit.

Tan, however, said he and Rob are ready to take on the entire process again for a second child. This time, however, they will make some structural changes to their lives to aid the process.

"With the job that I have, and my husband's a full-time artist, we needed help," France said. "We should have done that sooner."

Tan told Insider that he and Rob didn't have any additional help with childcare for four months after they brought Ismail home from the hospital. Tan described the four-month period as one of the most beautiful but "most difficult" times of his life.

The pair later hired a night nurse for nearly two months to sleep train Ismail. Now, the pair employ a part-time nanny whom Tan described as a "life saver."

Elsewhere during the cover story, Tan told Insider that he and Rob are currently building a new home in Salt Lake City, which will hold a schoolroom. The pair plan to host a community school with their friends' children and home-school Ismail. Tan said the move is motivated by incidents like the recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two adults dead.

Tan — who was born and raised in South Yorkshire, England — said he's horrified by the violent trend.

"I don't know if it's happened in my lifetime, a school shooting in England, so for me, it's completely shocking," he said.

"Yes, I've lived here for almost 15 years, but I'm still shocked that this has been allowed to keep happening. So those were the main conversations I would have with Rob: How do we keep our children safe?"

Tan continued to discuss everything from his childhood to the future of Netflix's "Queer Eye" during the cover story. You can read the entire interview here.