Holly Willoughby has opened up about juggling life at home and how she managed to overcome “mum guilt” over her hectic work schedule.
This This Morning presenter is a proud mum to Harry, 12, Belle, 10, and seven-year-old Chester, raising them with her producer husband Daniel Baldwin.
However, speaking to Fearne Cotton on her Happy Place podcast, Holly admits that she fears outside criticism of people judging her parenting skills as she juggles work commitments including her presenting duties, new book, lifestyle brand and fashion ranges.
“I had to challenge the set of beliefs I was living by,” she said.
“I’m feeling mega guilty now. Why? What’s making me feel guilty? Is it that I’m working too much? Like the whole working mum thing, for example, is like ‘Oh my God, I’m a working mum, I can’t drop my kids off at school in the morning because i’m always at work.’”
“What I boiled it to is - people must think people don’t love my kids because I go to work,” she continued. “If I actually break that down to what I’m telling myself - that’s mad, because of course I love my kids. I love my kids with every ounce of my being.
“So why am I feeling guilty? Because I know I’m going to work because I enjoy going to work and it’s got no correlation to how much I love my kids, those two things shouldn’t even be in the same sentence.
“But I’m believing a set of beliefs that I think other people are feeling.”
“It’s kind of like snipping at strings of balloons filled with beliefs that don’t belong to me,” she added.
The star had previously spoken about her feelings about the same subject matter on The One Show, admitted she had to unlearn worrying about people’s feelings after feeling guilty about everything.
However, she added: “You just have to re-evaluate whose opinions you're living by. Are they yours or someone else's?"
The admission is one of many Holly has said lately, with the same interview seeing her touch upon life as she gets older and embracing her wrinkles.
She also put to bed rumours that she had once had an ‘epic behind-the-scenes’ fallout with her long-time pal and co-star Phillip Schofield.
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