Charlotte Crosby has opened up on the pressure she felt to ‘bounce back’ after pregnancy.
The Geordie Shore star, 36, and fiancé Jake Ankers, 34, welcomed their second daughter, Pixi, in February and are already parents to two-year-old daughter Alba.
In a new interview, the reality star candidly discussed how it’s hard being a woman with kids who wants to succeed in their career.
She exclusively told Daily Mail: ‘I think you always feel pressure with this kind of job.
‘Once you’ve had a child, people don’t think that you can do it all. So women feel like you have a child, you’ve got to take a step back from work, or you just have to step back.
‘Especially in this industry where you may have been forgotten about.’
Charlotte Crosby has opened up on the pressure on women to ‘bounce back’ after pregnancy in a new interview with the Daily Mail (pictured in August)
The Geordie Shore star, 36, and her fiancé Jake Ankers, 34, welcomed their second daughter, Pixi, in February and are already parents to a little girl called Alba, two
Charlotte continued: ‘It’s a really big pressure for any work and woman with a child who still wants to excel in their career.
‘You’ve got to fight that bit harder, and I really feel for women who are in that situation because you are already exhausted, you are already working a 24-hour job, and you really wanna like get yourself back out there and prove that you can be just as good as what you were pre-kid.
‘Everyone has this assumption that they’re not going to be as good because they’ve got children now.
‘I just think there’s so much pressure on work and women as mothers.
‘Some people don’t want to, some people want to take a step back, but I like to bring my children to work with us.’
On balancing her work with bringing up two kids, Charlotte said: ‘Work and now having two kids with that as well, it’s absolutely exhausting.
‘Like I’ve never been this exhausted in my whole entire life.
Charlotte and her fiance Jake Ankers have been together since 2021, and got engaged in 2023 during a lavish trip to Dubai
‘Like, do you know what makes us laugh? When I see some people like say, “Oh I’m really tired. I’ve had so much work on.”
‘I think, “you don’t know, you don’t know don’t even know what tired means.”
‘I remember when I used to say that before I had kids and I want to give myself a slap around the face and say.
‘It’s so physically demanding and I love every single second of it, so I think that’s why I’m still staying.’
Charlotte recently broke down in tears on Instagram as she candidly opened up about struggling with health problems and juggling two children earlier this year.
The reality star couldn’t hold back her tears as she told her 8.7million followers that ‘not everything is always perfect’.
She revealed that she has been having back problems and has been struggling to hear out of her ear as she headed to a number of medical appointments.
Her day wasn’t so smooth sailing as her baby girl had ‘thrown up all over herself’ making her late as she headed back inside her home to clean her up.
It comes after Charlotte broke down in tears on Instagram as she candidly opened up about struggling with health problems and juggling two children earlier this year
Charlotte said: ‘Oh god, I’m just having a little cry and I just thought I’d come on here to show ya that not everything is always perfect.
‘This is so stupid, I’ve got a back appointment that I was going to try and make because it is killing and I have loads of appointments to go to so my back and then my ear because I feel like I can’t hear properly.
‘Then I’ve got to go to work all day and honestly I was bossing it about to leave and then I literally was making good time and was going to be on time for once and then I looked into the car seat and Pixi had thrown up all over herself.
‘It’s all in her hair still so I ran back in quickly to do a change and Alba is still sitting in the car waiting for us. It’s meant to Alba’s day off today but I’m just dragging her around with me and I just broke into tears.’
Charlotte revealed she thinks she was crying due to ‘stress’ and that she has been trying to ‘do her best’ looking after her daughters while business owner Jake is away working.
She continued: ‘I think it’s the stress, I think it’s stress of trying to do this big photo shoot tomorrow and I want it to go well but I’m also trying to do the best I can with Alba and Pixie as well. It’s hard to do everything.
‘I’m by myself a lot because Jake is away working all the time and now I’ve just flung all the sick clothes on the floor. I’m in the car now’.
It comes after Charlotte recently hit back at mum-shamers after being trolled for her parenting.
Charlotte revealed she thinks she was crying due to ‘stress’ and that she has been trying to ‘do her best’ looking after her daughters while business owner Jake is away working
Despite only giving birth just weeks ago, the new mum has already been subject to mum-shaming, after sharing a snap of the tot with a side sleeping pillow – which led to her deleting the post.
Speaking previously to Daily Mail about her brand new TV show Charlotte’s Having Another Baby, Charlotte said of the situation: ‘Just everyone freaked out again. Everyone freaked out.
‘Everyone needs to calm down, if everyone was a little bit more calm like me, they would have chilled babies. There is just a lot of people who like hype fixating and are really big panickers. It passes to your child.
‘You don’t realise it, but all this anxiety that you’re having… all this panicking, it passes to your child. Your child feeds off your energy. I’ve got calm laid back energy. I’m not about to judge anyone.
‘I’m not about to freak out. I’m not about to be worried about everything that they’re doing, I just go with it.’
Taking to Instagram Charlotte previously said: ‘Sorry guys had to delete that. A LOT OF ANGRY PPL IN MY DMS.”
‘I had no problems and no worries with that product. Used with Alba and Pixi. But you know how sensitive ppl get. Normal service to resume…. Hopefully this next post [isn’t offending] anyone [sic].’
Charlotte noted how another thing that people are very judgmental about is breastfeeding.
Charlotte is back on our screens with her new series of Geordie Stories: Charlotte Mam of Two
She said: ‘I just really don’t understand why people care what other people are doing.
‘Like, I literally would not judge anyone for their choices and how they raise their child, unless they were doing something really harmful.
‘I feel like it’s really I think it’s really sad. Like some of my friends breastfeed, some of them don’t.
‘I don’t go “Oh that’s really bad”. Like, I just don’t do that. It’s their choice.’
She added: ‘I don’t breastfeed. I wasn’t breastfed myself, and I’m fine, aren’t I? Have I had something really detrimental happen in my life, no?’
Charlotte is back on our screens with her new series of Geordie Stories: Charlotte Mam of Two.
Streaming on subscription service Paramount+ in the UK from November 19, the series follows the reality star as she navigates life with Jake and their two children.
