Millie Mackintosh has revealed that she believes one of her two daughters is also suffering from ADHD, one year after her own diagnosis.
The former Made In Chelsea star, 35, who shares Sienna, four, and three-year-old Aurelia with husband and former co-star Hugo Taylor, did not reveal which daughter but said the little one’s ‘massive meltdowns’ were a ‘daily challenge’.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a behavioural condition defined by inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness.
Taking to Instagram Millie shared a slew of throwback snaps from her childhood and said how ‘everything had changed’ since her diagnosis and has learned how to better understand herself after a lifetime of feeling different.
She penned: ‘It’s been a year since I was diagnosed with ADHD and honestly, it’s changed so much for me. Suddenly so many things made sense, why I’d always felt different, why school and socialising were so hard, why I drank the way I did, and how it’s affected so many parts of my life’.
‘Some people might ask, “why find out as an adult?” but for me, knowing how my brain works has helped me be so much kinder to myself and to forgive myself for ways I have acted in the past’.
Millie Mackintosh, 35, has revealed that she believes one of her two daughters is also suffering from ADHD, one year after her own diagnosis
The former Made In Chelsea star shares Sienna, four, and three-year-old Aurelia with husband and former co-star Hugo Taylor
She did not reveal which daughter but said the little one’s ‘massive meltdowns’ were a ‘daily challenge’
Millie continued: ‘I sometimes use ADHD medication to focus on days when I am working. I’m really grateful to have access to it because I know not everyone does. I only take it once or twice a week on those days I get loads done, but I usually feel more tired the next day and it can increase my anxiety’.
‘I’ve also lived with anxiety and depression most of my life. When I was at school I was diagnosed with dyspraxia and given extra time in exams, but no one picked up on ADHD. Back then it was still thought of as something that mostly affected boys, which is why I think so many women are only finding out much later in life’.
She went on: ‘Over the past year I’ve realised how many people in my life are also neurodivergent and realised that’s one of the reasons why I “click” instantly with certain people and not with others.
‘Parenting with ADHD has its challenges, especially as I suspect one of my girls might have it too. The massive meltdowns and trying not to react when I’m triggered is a daily challenge! Routine helps massively, term time feels calmer, while weekends and school holidays are a bit trickier without that structure’.
Millie continued:: The things that make the biggest difference for me are: good quality sleep, setting strong boundaries, not drinking alcohol, exercising daily, avoiding processed food and sugar. Since January I’ve been eating a whole food, protein focussed, low carb/keto diet and it’s made me feel so much better.
Before adding: ‘There’s still so much more I’m learning. Mel Robbins was actually the person who first prompted me to get tested’.
It comes after Millie, who revealed her diagnoses in 2024, said ADHD left her suffering with memory loss, problems with her hand eye coordination as well as depression.
Dyspraxia, also known as developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD), is a common disorder that affects movement and co-ordination.
Taking to Instagram Millie shared a slew of throwback snaps from her childhood and said how ‘everything had changed’ since her diagnosis
Millie said she had learned how to better understand herself after a lifetime of feeling different
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a behavioural condition defined by inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness
She penned: ‘It’s been a year since I was diagnosed with ADHD and honestly, it’s changed so much for me. Suddenly so many things made sense,’
‘Some people might ask, “why find out as an adult?” but for me, knowing how my brain works has helped me be so much kinder to myself and to forgive myself’
Millie continued: ‘I sometimes use ADHD medication to focus on days when I am working. I’m really grateful to have access to it because I know not everyone does
‘Parenting with ADHD has its challenges, especially as I suspect one of my girls might have it too. The massive meltdowns and trying not to react when I’m triggered is a daily challenge!’
She penned: ‘I am Dyspraxic and struggle with hand eye coordination, memory and often walk into things.
‘I used to play the drums and have an electric blue drum kit aged 11’.
‘I was bullied as a teen and diagnosed with depression at 16. I have a fear of small spaces and the dark and have done since I was a child’.
She continued: ‘I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and am still learning about it – I have found being diagnosed really helpful for my mental health
‘I have been following a ketogenic way of eating since the start of the year to help improve my ADHD symptoms and brain health.
‘I hated exercise as a teenager because I felt so uncoordinated but I discovered strength training in my 20’s and have loved it ever since’
Before adding: ‘I have been alcohol free for nearly 3 years and it has been the most transformative decision I have ever made’.
Last year Millie made the decision to once again take medication to battle her anxiety after it left her in ‘constant fear’ and caused panic attacks ‘every few days’.
The reality star, first opened up about her struggles with anxiety in 2018, and her symptoms came to a head when she was pregnant with her first child.
She revealed that she had been back on medication for six months and her husband Hugo, even remarked that he feels he has the old Millie back.
Despite suffering with severe anxiety and depression for several years, Millie took medication for the first time in 2022, and stopped six months later.
Millie also revealed she was secretly struggling with her sexuality at the height of her battle with alcohol.
It comes after Millie , who revealed her diagnoses in 2024, said ADHD left her suffering with memory loss, problems with her hand eye coordination as well as depression
Last year Millie made the decision to once again take medication to battle her anxiety after it left her in ‘constant fear’ and caused panic attacks ‘every few days’
The TV personality spoken openly about her drinking problems before going sober in 2022, and has since released a book about her struggles, titled Bad Drunk.
Now in an interview on her pal Caggie Dunlop’s Saturn Returns Podcast, Millie has revealed that during her teenage years, she struggled to express her attraction to women, and would only find the courage to ‘kiss’ them when she was drunk.
She went onto admit that she had developed ‘intimacy issues’ with women after being bullied at an all-girls’ school, and would upset her male partners by brazenly kissing girls when she was drinking.
Millie said: ‘As a teen when I would drink, I would make out with women, but that’s not something I felt confident to do when I was sober..
‘I had crushes on girls at school and I just didn’t have the awareness to go ”I like girls as well.” I’d just have crushes and get all weird about them. I remember having sleepovers and going ”I wonder if they’re going to kiss me.”
Millie added that a lot of her struggles have been unpacked in therapy, telling Caggie: ‘I’ve explored a lot of my relationship to women, I was bullied so I definitely have intimacy issues with women, but there’s this attraction as well.
‘Obviously I’m married to a man, it’s not something that affects our relationship at all now, but looking back and realising that was one of the reasons I drank in a destructive way, because there was a part of myself I didn’t understand and I didn’t know how to express it and I felt scared to express it.
‘Everytime I would drink I would just keep doing it, even if I was in a relationship.’
Sharing the moment she opened up to husband Hugo Taylor about her sexuality, she revealed that he was incredibly supportive.
