Rochelle Humes juggles work with household help

 has revealed she has household help to 'hold down the fort' six days a week while she juggles work.

The former Saturdays singer, 37, said she has employed a woman to help around the house and with school pick ups Monday to Saturday.

Rochelle shares daughters Alaia, 12, Valentina, nine, and son Blake, five, with her JLS singer husband , 41.

Speaking on the Great Company podcast with , Rochelle said having help is what allows her to have a successful career. 

'I don't want to sit on podcasts like this and act like I don't have help – we have help!', she shared.

'I have a woman who is with me Monday to Saturday morning and she is incredible and helps to hold the fort down.

'When Marvin is at his radio show and I am somewhere like here, she is there until I get back.'

'People say have you got a nanny and we don't', she added before explaining the woman is more of a household helper.

While she wasn't afraid of admitting in the interview to having help around the house, Rochelle said she was most scared of telling her mother, Roz Wiseman. 

She recalled: 'I was so nervous to tell my mum I was getting help. The first response from her was, "no one's looking after my grandkids but me".

'Also she was like, "oh so you are too good to do your washing up now are you". I was like, "no I just need some help".

'I was so scared to tell her because she really wasn't happy, she was outraged. She was like, "I don't know who you two think you are".'

Elsewhere in the interview, Rochelle said she will 'never respect' her absent father Mark Piper after he walked out on her as a baby as she opened up in an honest new interview. 

The presenter said she doesn't 'really remember' her estranged father as he left her as a baby but for many years she was left feeling 'angry and upset'. 

It wasn't until Rochelle and Marvin welcomed their first child Alaia in 2013, that she finally lost all 'respect and curiosity' about her father. 

Despite being without a male role model, the This Morning star's uncle Paul Ince, who captained England football and played for Manchester United and West Ham, stepped up for her. 

Speaking to on his Great Company podcast, Rochelle said: 'My dad left when I was one, I don't really remember him. 

'I remember waiting for him at the window on the weekends which ended quickly because he just didn't come and there were so many years I was upset and angry about it. 

'The day I had Alaia I instantly had zero curiosity to get to know my dad and I would never respect him as a person, he is not someone I would choose to spend time with.'

Mark went on to have three children, Love Island star Sophie Piper, as well as Lili and Jake, whom Rochelle reconnected with after 23 years. 

'As a kid I did find it hard, he went on to have three other children, who are now, we are obsessed with each other but from the outside I saw he was there for them and not me', she said. 

Rochelle went on to explain how her famous footballer 'uncle' Paul, who isn't a blood relation but was always someone she 'looked up to' and eventually he walked her down the aisle when she married Marvin in 2012. 

'My uncle was there for me, he was that male presence for me, but my mum wore a lot of hats', she began. 

'But my uncle Paul would come and he played football for England, he is Paul Ince and was playing for England, he gave me away at my wedding and Marv had to ask Paul to marry me.

'It was exciting I used to go watch West Ham every weekend but he was really that male role model that I looked up to. 

'I never realised he was cool until secondary school. Claire his wife and my mum are best friends, he's not actually my blood uncle but my mum was the first one to have a child and that was it, he was always just around and always is and always will be. 

'I never felt like I didn't have a male figure around because he always made time for me, like every single weekend.'