Christine McGuinness has been widely praised by her many social media followers for her 'honest' post about how Christmas Day went for her family.
Former Real Housewives of Cheshire star Christine was recently on screen in The Real Full Monty, with her admitting in a TV interview, that she had just received her autism diagnosis right before filming, but decided not to share the news with those working on the show.
Christine, wife of comedian and I Can See Your Voice host Paddy, had previously spoken candidly about all three of the couple's children having autism, before finding relief in her diagnosis, after being upset by how she struggled to understand some of her own behaviour and emotions.
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Christine and Paddy recently opened up more about autism in their family for a BBC documentary and, earlier this week, Christine took to Instagram to post a series of photos of their Christmas Day, showing kids Leo, Penelope and Felicity with their presents.
Next to them, she wrote: "Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. We had a surprisingly calm day!
"Leo opened his presents slowly (he still has some unopened and that’s ok). Penelope wanted to tidy everything away at 9am (so did mummy) and then spent most of the day in her room and that’s fine.
"Felicity got quite overstimulated and needed some afternoon quiet time (like daddy). So I’d say it went well!"
Christine also posted pictures of the Christmas dinner and how the children dealt with it given their eating habits.
She wrote: "Big improvements from their usual chicken nuggets and chips. They didn’t eat everything on the plate but the fact it was allowed on the plate is progress, and they tried"
One of her many followers wrote: "I agree as long as your children are happy that’s what I have learnt, let them dictate the pace," with another commenting: "Amazing. tiny steps to anyone else giant leaps for them you must be so proud"
A third told Christine: "I love seeing how honest your family is. My son has high functioning autism and what is classed as ‘normal family’ activities are just to much so I love to see how your day went.
"I also loved the programme you did about autism and your family."
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