Kelly Brook reveals how her grandma's advice changed her views on becoming a mum
Kelly Brook reveals how her grandma's advice changed her views on becoming a mum
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Kelly Brook is loving her busy life in London with husband Jeremy Parisi and, after a few wise words from her maternal grandma, is determined to live a life without regrets — and that includes making peace with her decision not to have children. The presenter, who turned 45 in November, is back in North London after selling up and leaving the 15th-century Kent country house she bought in her twenties.
Now that she’s settled (but still incredibly busy working six days a week on Heart Radio) Kelly has a definite air of contentment about her. As she reveals, it’s in part because of some incredibly frank words from someone special in her family. “When I asked my grandma if she regretted anything in life, because that’s what you ask octogenarians, she said — very honestly — that her biggest regret was having children,” she says when she sits down for an exclusive chat with Mirror's Notebook magazine.
“I wasn’t expecting it, but she definitely said it! I think she felt that having children had taken up a lot of her life. I thought, ‘What an absolutely honest, incredible answer,’ and I think I needed to hear it. I was about 36 at the time and thinking, ‘God, am I ever going to have children? If so, maybe I should just get on with it now?’ Then I thought, ‘Actually, I don’t think I want them,’ and hearing that somebody had regrets, and that I might not regret not having children, made me feel really happy about my choice.”.
Her grandma’s honesty, she says, almost gave her permission to accept that being a woman without children doesn’t mean a life full of regret — in fact, it can mean the opposite. “You can change most things in life, can’t you? You can change where you live, you can change your relationships, you can get divorced, you can move on, things can change a lot. What doesn’t change is having children, because that’s the one constant thing — once you have children, you can’t change that.
