Stacey Solomon is no stranger to bearing it all on screen, allowing the public to get an insight into her personal life. In the most recent episode of her hit TV show, Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon, she could be seen crying on camera after stepping away from an emotional ‘declutter’ of a family’s home.
The TV star was moved to tears when finding out that the woman she was helping transform her house was in fact diagnosed with incurable breast cancer. It’s candid moments like this that draw viewers to Stacey and what seems to have kept her on our screens for all these years.
The 35-year-old previously opened up to her close friend, Caroline Hirons, on her podcast, Glad We Had This Chat, about her own personal struggles. With a successful career, TV shows, a marriage, and five children in the mix, the presenter finds herself “battling” between all areas of her life.
“I definitely feel like I’m at a pivotal moment in my life,” Stacey said in the May 2024 episode, explaining that her eldest son Zachary was about to leave school. “I think I’ve come to a point in my life where I recognise that I’ve been really busy for his life, and his life is at a really important point, and my second son will get to that point before I know it.
“Then I’ve got these three babies; I don’t want to miss what I potentially feel like I missed with my older children. And I want to be there for my older children, who I think need me now more than ever, so I’ve been battling with that in my head.”
Stacey explained that each year, she sits down with her agent and everyone on her team to discuss her career goals. Last time when asked, she told them she wanted to be a “stay-at-home mum”, telling them that it is her “ultimate dream”.
This ultimately means taking a step back from her life on screen. But the TV star admitted that she finds it all “conflicting” because there are also goals she wants to achieve that she is passionate about, and without them, will feel “unfulfilled.”
“What I’m trying to do at this point is make sure everything that I work on, I can work on 90% of the time at home, and then just do passion projects outside of the house, and then try and be around for them more,” she told Caroline.
The pair shared a candid conversation around the pressures of motherhood and what is generally considered a ‘bad mum’ and a ‘good mum’. Stacey had her first child, Zachary, when she was 17, before she was catapulted into stardom, and admitted to listeners that she “dragged Zach up”.
“I was like, you are going to get through this situation with me, and we’re going to do this together, and I dragged him through life to make sure that we kept our head above the water,” she told listeners.
“I think that makes him a whole different person. If he ever sees me struggling or Joe struggling, he dives in for it; he’s so helpful and so in tune to what other people are feeling. So, actually, I think sometimes what we class as ‘mistakes’ or ‘hardships’ or, you know, whatever builds, it makes them incredible characters.”
Stacey can be seen on our screens in the fifth series of Sort Your Life Out on BBC this Saturday at 11am. You can watch all previous seasons on BBC iPlayer.
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