Helen Skelton embarrasses 'mortified' child on school run
The 41-year-old is mum to Ernie, nine, Louis, eight, and Elsie, four, whom she co-parents with her former husband, Richie Myler.
"This is really sad but when you have kids, you just really want them to like you," she confessed to the Runna Podcast.
"It's a weird thing, but you're like, 'I love you so much, just like me'.
"My kids are at that age where sometimes they look at me and they're like, you are a d******d."
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"I scoot to school with my kids and, literally, my eldest went to me the other day, 'I think you need to leave the scooter now mum'.
"I was like, oh God, he's mortified."
Helen believes that taking part in athletic endeavours is a good example to her children.
She continued: "It's funny, I don't do it so that they go, 'Oh, my mum is a legend' but in the moments when I'm not listening and they say to their mates, 'My mum did that' and Oh, my God I flipping love it.
"I know that's really sad and needy but, I don't want my kids to be like, 'Yeah my mum did this, my mum did that', but there is definitely that thing of I can't tell you to stick at this, if I don't practise what I preach."
Helen's comments come after she compared her bustling household to "Piccadilly circus".
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"I always say it's not a kid that needs a nanny, I need a nanny - to do all the boring stuff," she confessed to Bang Showbiz.
During the same conversation, the television host acknowledged how lucky she is to balance motherhood with her career.
"I'm very lucky, most of my friends work way more, in offices or schools or hospitals," she noted.
"They take the mick because I don't work half as much as they do. TV work is feast or famine, so you have a crazy few weeks, then you have a really quiet month."
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