Lorraine Kelly has revealed she feels as though she’s been given a second chance at motherhood as she opened up about life as a grandmother.
The beloved TV presenter’s only child, Rosie, welcomed her first daughter with fiancé’ Steve White in August 2024, and the family is now preparing for their second Christmas together.
Lorraine and her husband, Steve Smith, recently moved to a home just six minutes away from their daughter, and the broadcasting icon admitted she feels she’s ‘getting the chance to be a mum again’ after the challenges of raising Rosie during her demanding career years.
Speaking to the Daily Mail as part of EE Broadband’s Christmas campaign, Lorraine also reflected on the changing attitudes toward working mothers and pregnancy noting that it was once considered taboo for pregnant women to appear on television.
Lorraine said: ‘It’s great. To be honest with you, I am getting a chance to be a mum again in a way.
‘I am not being a mum again because Rosie’s her mum and she’s got her mum, but I ‘m getting a chance to do it again and hopefully to do it better.’
Reflecting on juggling motherhood and her career she explained: ‘Because when I had Rosie I was in my 30’s, I think I was 34 and I was working and it’s always harder of you are the mother.’
Praising her daughter she continued: ‘I think you are amazing. She’s incredible, absolutely incredible. I do not know how you do everything that you do, but it’s lovely when it’s your grandchild because you read those books that you read yourself.
‘It’s just lovely, and she’s a wee lamb. She’s a credit to you. She’s an incredible angel.’
Lorraine also opened up about the change in attitudes toward working mums and pregnancy, explaining how it used to be considered a taboo for pregnant women to appear on TV.
