Rochelle Humes has spoken about the pain of finding out her eldest daughter is being bullied.
The This Morning presenter 36, has three children with JLS singer husband Marvin Humes - who she married in 2012 - Alaia-May, 12, Valentina, eight, and son Blake, four.
And now, speaking in a new interview, Rochelle has said Alaia-May is having a tough time as she approaches year eight at school.
“It’s an awful thing. My eldest is 12 – it’s that tricky age when she’s going into the second year of secondary school and I’ve really noticed the dynamics and the changes and how girls are to each other,” Rochelle said, speaking on her Ladies Who Launch podcast.
“And I go, ‘Oh, my God, if I could shield her from anything in life.’ It brings out this lioness in you.”
Rochelle added: “I wasn’t a victim of bullying, but my daughter is definitely going through a touch of that at the minute and it’s so difficult and so hard to watch, but also knowing how to parent through it.’”
The singer also recently spoke on a podcast about how she felt falling pregnant with Alaia-May while she was in The Saturdays, who were together from 2007 - 2014.
“I remember getting pregnant aged 23 and thinking, ‘I am pregnant and in a girlband, isn’t that against the law’,’ she said on Ladies Who Launch.
“I was almost made to feel that I had let everybody down by having the baby... incredibly so and it really felt like, I was pregnant, and I was in a girlband, it was almost like I was trying not to be pregnant, even though everybody knew.”
And she also spoke about how tough it was dealing with pregnancy while in the girlband.
“It was almost like I had a hangover, so I couldn’t talk about it, if I felt sick, I had to hide it and then even coming back, I remember having a single, five weeks after Alaia was born and I was on Lorraine and Good Morning Britain doing a performance and I remember my boobs leaking and I was squeezing myself into my Spanx,” she said.
Last year, Rochelle said being a mum to three had given her a “different level of patience, kindness and empathy”.
“For me, being a mother has really taught me to question my values and reevaluate my thoughts,” she said.
"I always teach my children to lead with kindness and put themselves in someone’s shoes, 'Maybe that person’s done this because they felt like this' – that sort of thing.
"I never want them to be short-sighted. And as I’m teaching them, it’s teaching me a different level of patience, kindness and empathy. I really want my children to know that you don’t ever know what someone else is going through.”
