This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby has hit back at the "mummy brigade" by revealing she hires a nanny for her three children Harry, 10, Belle, 8 and Chester, 5.
She responded to those who work full-time and who have shamed her for paying for childcare, reports OK! Magazine.
Holly said: “Working mums and stay-at-home mums get a tough time. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. You just have to do what's right for you and not listen to what the mummy brigade say.”
The successful star, who presents the hit ITV show alongside Phillip Schofield, went on to discuss how she balances her career and family life, saying: “My job as a mother isn't just to provide for my children, it's to be there for them, too - someone they can speak to, hang out with, and lean on. When it comes to the kids, I don't ever want to feel like I'm missing out on stuff.”
Her and husband Dan Baldwin have had to enlist the help of a nanny in the mornings because she has to appear on our screens early from Monday to Thursday.
She said: ”I do have a nanny, otherwise the kids would have to walk themselves to school!”
"A good work-life balance is, for me, the most important thing - and the biggest challenge I have. I'm lucky I do a job that allows me to do school pick-up, so I feel quite blessed to have that."
Holly has been married to Dan for 12 years and in a recent interview with OK! Magazine she said it was never love at first sight.
“He’d come from MTV and was very ‘too cool for school’. He looked at me like I was this wally of a person. I thought, 'Oh God, he hates me. He thinks he’s really cool'."
She then added: “Then we became really good friends. We were in the bar and we toasted something with champagne and I looked at him and it was like, ‘Oh my God, I fancy him.’”
