As a successful pop singer turned television presenter, Rochelle Humes enjoys an enviable life at her £3 million home in north London with her husband, former JLS singer Marvin Humes, and their three children.
Don’t presume, though, that they are immune from the same family dramas as anyone else. Indeed, Rochelle, 36, has revealed that the couple’s 12-year-old daughter, Alaia-May, has been bullied at school.
‘It’s an awful thing,’ the singer says. ‘My eldest is 12 – it’s that tricky age when she’s going into the second year of secondary school and I’ve really noticed the dynamics and the changes and how girls are to each other and I go, “Oh, my God, if I could shield her from anything in life.” It brings out this lioness in you.’
Speaking on her Ladies Who Launch podcast, she added: ‘I wasn’t a victim of bullying, but my daughter is definitely going through a touch of that at the minute and it’s so difficult and so hard to watch, but also knowing how to parent through it.’
Rochelle and Marvin are also proud parents to daughter Valentina, eight, and son Blake, four.
Rochelle Humes, 36, has revealed that her and husband Marvin Humes’ 12-year-old daughter, Alaia-May (pictured), has been bullied at school
Despite Rochelle and Marvin having successful pop and TV careers, the This Morning star revealed that they are not immune from the same family dramas as anyone else
It comes after Rochelle revealed she was made to feel like she had ‘messed up’ after falling pregnant with her first child whilst in The Saturdays.
The This Morning star recalled how she felt ashamed during her first pregnancy at the age of 23 at the height of the band’s success.
In a new podcast, she claimed she was made to feel that she had tainted their youthful image after starting her family in her early 20s.
Rochelle, who married JLS singer Marvin, 40, in 2012, said: ‘I remember getting pregnant aged 23 and thinking, “I am pregnant and in a girlband, isn’t that against the law”.
‘I was almost made to feel that I had let everybody down by having the baby… incredibly so and it really felt like, I was pregnant, and I was in a girlband, it was almost like I was trying not to be pregnant, even though everybody knew.’
Rochelle’s children often feature on her social media pages, enjoying fun filled family days out and luxury holidays.
Indeed, her two daughters’ play a key role in promoting her inclusive haircare brand for children, My Little Coco.
Recalling her pregnancy whilst still performing in The Saturdays, Rochelle likened her experience to having a ‘hangover’.
She said: ‘I wasn’t a victim of bullying, but my daughter is definitely going through a touch of that at the minute and it’s so difficult and so hard to watch, but also knowing how to parent through it’
Rochelle and Marvin are also proud parents to daughter Valentina, eight, and son Blake, four
She explained on the Ladies Who Launch podcast: ‘It was almost like I had a hangover, so I couldn’t talk about it, if I felt sick, I had to hide it and then even coming back, I remember having a single, five weeks after Alaia was born and I was on Lorraine and Good Morning Britain doing a performance and I remember my boobs leaking and I was squeezing myself into my Spanx.’
Rochelle also confessed that she now regrets not taking some proper time out to relax and connect with her newborn.
She admitted: ‘Now when I look back, I almost feel annoyed with myself, but I don’t think I really understood the impact of having a baby and what that meant to me and how I should have just let myself rest and getting my head around the whole experience.
‘But I was so scared of ruining it and is that the end of my career and how does that look that I just kept going.’
The Saturdays were formed in the summer of 2007 and disbanded in 2014, though at the time insisted to it was ‘break’ and not a ‘break-up’.
