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Emmeline Saunders

Jonathan Ross's daughter is on autistic spectrum but was misdiagnosed as a child

Jonathan Ross has revealed one of his daughters is on the autistic spectrum - but had no idea until she was an adult.

The chat show host, 59, said his daughter was misdiagnosed as a child in the 1990s, despite him and wife Jane Goldman taking her to be assessed.

"One of my children I'm pretty sure has a level of autism," he told Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Lockdown Parenting Hell podcast this week.

"She was very late to talk and she fixed on certain things, and she was very strange about people.

Jonathan with his wife Jane and children Betty, Honey and Harvey pictured in 2007 (Getty Images)

"We took her to be assessed but not for that, [and] because this was early 90s and when that stuff wasn't really talked about as much.

"But now we showed someone the medical report and they said, 'yes, now she would absolutely be diagnosed as autistic', but back then she wasn't," he added.

Jonathan didn't say which of his girls is on the spectrum.

He and Jane have three children together - Betty Kitten, 28; Harvey Kirby, and 22-year-old Honey Kinny, who works as a plus-size fashion influencer.

Honey, 22, works as a fashion influencer (Instagram)

Honey made her debut at London Fashion Week earlier this year and told Lorraine Kelly how years of living in the 'toxic' industry had given her confidence in her body.

"I'm a size 18 and I'm more confident than all of my thin friends and they always say, 'I wish I was more confident', and I'm like, 'You have the body society likes'," she said in February.

"I knew countless boys with eating disorders, but in my group three of my friends had really life-threatening eating disorders.

Honey is a body positivity advocate (Instagram)

"My friends were close to death, but people were going, 'Yeah but she's too fat'.

"There's no way of winning as a woman," she added.

Honey, who regularly posts pictures of herself wearing bikinis and lingerie on Instagram, shared the positive reaction she's had from other women.

"The reason I continue to post like this, is because I receive messages that say, 'Just so you know, I brought the first bikini in ten years or threw away my scales because of you'," she told Lorraine.

Jonathan and Jane with Honey and Harvey in 2011 (Getty Images)

"Or teens saying, 'You've inspired me to go out in shorts' and that makes it absolutely all worth it."

She added: "We all grew up the same diet culture. I grew up in this industry, which is quite toxic and I never saw people who looked like me.

"I always saw people doing fad diets, I grew up around that. Whether my parents intended me too or not, you can only do so much.

"I went from being a normal child and I put on weight and suddenly I got a lot of pity.

"I got people saying, 'Are you going to take her to the gym? Put her on a diet?'

"People think they're doing the kind thing, when actually it's so damaging."

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