Holly Willoughby discusses feeling as if she'd 'lost' herself
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Holly Willoughby said that while she is “blessed” in many ways, she felt as though something was “missing” from her life, so decided to work on solo projects. With this, the presenter released her new book Reflections, launched her website Wylde Moon and podcast The Light of the Moon last year.
The 40-year-old spilled: “I have a very happy relationship with my husband. I love him, I still fancy him – which is fantastic.
“The last few years I’ve kind of been looking inward a little bit. And I sort of got to this stage in life where I was like, ‘I’ve got a really lovely life, I love my husband, I fancy my husband. I’ve got great kids. I’m very blessed in many, many ways, but something is missing’.”
Holly said she soon realised she was missing something in herself, adding: “My whole life [I’ve been] kind of doing this long to-do list, tick-list, like da, da, da, da, da and we run, and we keep going and we keep going, keep going.
“And I suddenly thought, ‘I don’t know who I am, I don’t even know what music I like, I don’t know what my tastes are anymore’.”
Speaking on Heart Radio with Amanda Holden, Holly went on to say she is a “slob” as soon as she is home from work.
“I get in, take the heels off, I lie on the sofa. I sleep in my make-up… no I don’t do that,” she joked.
“I’m very much mum and I’m very much, you know just I think what we all do really.”
She also expressed the importance of not bringing work home otherwise “it just takes over”.
Holly tied the knot with husband Dan back in 2007.
They share three children together; Harry, Belle and Chester.
The presenter tends to keep her family life private and doesn’t show her children’s faces on social media.
On The One Show last year, the mother-of-three also opened up on feeling guilty as a working mum.
“It is totally normal, but what I’ve had to really focus on is where’s the guilt coming from,” she began.
“The problems with mums, particularly working mums guilt is ‘I’m feeling guilty because I’m not there to drop my kids off in the morning because I have to go to to work.’”
She continued: “What I’m feeling guilty about is that in some way I’m clearly telling myself I clearly don’t love my kids because I love my career more than my children, which is why I’m choosing to do this.”
“That’s not the case,” she added. “I know that’s not the case, I know I love my kids more than anything on this planet.”
Holly went on to say: “You just have to kind of re-evaluate who’d rules you’re living by, are they your opinions or other ones you think are out there.”
Catch the presenter on Would I Lie To You? tonight at 8pm on BBC One.
Holly and Phil also return to Dancing on Ice this Sunday at 6.30pm on ITV.
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