Aoibhin Garrihy admitted she hated the 'schmoozing' aspect that came with life as an actor saying: ‘It didn’t sit well with me’.
The former Fair City star turned businesswoman said that she has no regrets trading in life in front of the camera in the capital for her new home in Co. Clare, and said she is ‘content’ now with her decisions.
“There are no regrets,” Aoibhin, 33, said. “But do I miss it? Yeah, I do.”
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“But I think it was the industry itself that probably pushed me away ultimately,” the boss of lifestyle brand, BEO, went on.
“It just didn’t sit well with me. I think you need to be a certain type of person and for me there was an itch there that I certainly wanted to scratch in terms of business, and I get to do that with BEO and I am in control of what I produce and all of that."
"The schmoozing aspect of it...I just hated that.
“I certainly miss the doing of it but the other stuff not so much and I absolutely love what I am doing now.
Speaking to RTE Guide, she went on: “I am so content, and you can’t buy that. It’s a feeling and it’s a gear shift, when I am on the road home to Clare, I feel it.
“I still love Dublin and I still work in Dublin quite regularly but in terms of the other pace of life, here is home now.”
But the busy mother-of-three, who recently released a poetry book, admitted she struggles with ‘mom guilt’ when she is busy at work.
“That bloody instagram audio was haunting me all summer long - the one [from psychologist Jordan Peterson] that says, ‘You only have little children for four years’ and so I was like, ‘Oh God, it’s nearly over! So there is that guilt when you’re so busy but then at the same time I don’t think it does any harm to see parents who are working hard.
“It was the same with us growing up, mom and dad were grafters and I suppose that has probably rubbed off.”
“It’s been busy but it’s all good,” she said.
“I’m very lucky. I am healthy and I have great help. The five of us are going on a little break soon and I am so looking forward to that. It’s just about carving out those little moments of time altogether.
“They’re happiest just when we’re all together and doing something so simple.”
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