I lost myself when I had kids and got badly trolled for my parenting – but I know they’re just jealous, says Amy Childs
AMY Childs has revealed that she lost herself after having her first two kids and was viciously trolled for her parenting routine after giving birth to her twins.
The busy mum-of-four, 34, explained that she got her youngsters into a very organised sleep routine, which many parents didn’t agree with.
Chatting with Charlotte Dawson, 32, on a recent podcast episode of Charlotte’s Naughty Corner, Amy Childs, who is mum to Polly, seven, Ritchie, six, and Billy and Millie, 18 months, opened up on being on the receiving end of ‘jealous’ haters.
Revealing all to mum-of-two Charlotte, who is pregnant and expecting a baby girl, the TOWIE icon described herself as a ‘fun’ and ‘glam’ mum, despite her strict routines.
Amy, who recently showed off her impressive weight loss and shared her daughter Polly’s dyslexia diagnosis, explained: “It is chaos, but with me, I’m a very routine mum.
“I am very organised, and with work and whatever, I still need to have me.
“When you’re a mum, you completely lose yourself, and when I had Polly and Ritchie, there was only 15 months difference between them both. I definitely feel like I lost myself.
“But I’m still Amy, I’m 34, I’m a fun mum. I’m glam.”
The ‘vajazzle’ legend, who recently moved into a beautiful £1.7million Essex mansion, explained how other mums have slammed her twins’ sleep routine as ‘terrible’.
She admitted: “I’m really organised, the twins and Polly are in a really good routine.
“7:30pm/8pm, Polly and Ritchie are in bed and the twins are at 6:30pm, religiously, every single night. And they’ll wake up at 6:30am.
“I got trolled really bad because when they were 10 weeks old they were both in a routine.
“I’ve never had so many messages, people going to me ‘oh my god, that’s terrible’.
“For twins to sleep, I thought it was amazing, but I got really badly trolled.”
Who is Amy Childs?
Amy Childs was born June 7, 1990, and is a reality star, model, businesswoman and fashion designer.
She shot to fame in 2010 by appearing in ITV2’s reality TV show The Only Way Is Essex.
She became known for her ditsy, likeable personality and briefly dated fellow cast member Kirk Norcoss.
A particularly memorable scene involved her “vajazzling” Sam Faiers in a barbie pink-coloured salon.
She left the show in 2011 and took part in Celebrity Big Brother, finishing fourth.
She also took part in a fly-on-the-wall documentary, It’s All About Amy on Channel 5.
Two years later she competed in Channel 4’s daredevil show The Jump and was the second person to be eliminated.
She is now said to be worth around £5million through her fashion and beauty products.
Clearly very shocked, Charlotte, who has been described as the ultimate mum icon, and recently took a swipe at fiance Matt Sarsfield, gasped: “They’re just jealous because they’re kids are up all night.”
Amy then chimed in and agreed: “I know.”
But whilst Amy has her children’s bedtime routine sorted, she confessed that breastfeeding wasn’t for her.
She shared: “I really wanted to breastfeed and I really beat myself up because I couldn’t do it.
“However, the babies always slept and I did follow a routine.”
Not only did she follow a strict routine, but she also had a ‘night nanny’ too, as she added: “I had a night nanny come in for a few days. I had to do it because working, filming.
“Me and Bill were still in quite a new relationship, we’ve been together for three years.”