Perrie Edwards said WHAT about her future with Zayn?

It could be a busy few years for Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards by the sounds of it.

Now that Zayn is no longer a member of the world's biggest boyband, he has plenty of time to focus on making a future with his fiancée, and it seems Perrie is keen to get things started.

The pair have yet to set a date for their wedding after a two-year engagement, but Perrie definitely has a timeline set out for one other aspect of their life together – their family. Speaking to reporters this week, the Little Mix star said she would ideally like to have a baby in the next three years.

"Well, I would say 24 and that's in three years' time for me," she told Fabulous magazine. ''My mam was 24, though, so that's always been my ideal age.''

The 21-year-old singer reckons she has plenty of time to prepare for motherhood, and told the magazine that 24 was "still quite a while away." 

Perrie was also determined to clear up some nasty rumours about her relationship with Zayn, most notably that she was the driving force behind his decision to quit One Direction back in March. Just days after photos surfaced online of him with his arms around another woman while on tour in Thailand, Zayn flew home to the UK for crisis talks with Perrie, and quit within the week.

I'm 22 years old… I love a girl named Perrie Edwards. And there's a lot of jealous fucks in this world I'm sorry for what it looks like x

— zaynmalik (@zaynmalik) March 18, 2015

"If he'd wanted to stay, I would have supported him just the same as I have since he's left. If he's happy then I'm happy," Perrie said of Zayn's shock exit from the band. 

"People have said did I do this, did I do that? No matter what decision he made, I was always going to support him."

Sounds like this pair have each other's backs.