Kaye Adams has explained her reasoning for lying to her daughter about her age.
The Loose Women star came clear to her daughter recently about her true age, after admitting she had shaved eight to 12 years off her age. She had expected her daughter to find it funny, but in fact she was heartbroken her mum had lied to her.
As she appeared on This Morning with hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, Kaye explained that her mother had always been "troubled" about her own age, something which she must have passed onto her as she was growing up.
Speaking on This Morning today, she said: "I was troubled about my age, and my mum used to be the same. I laughed at my mum because she would never say what age she was to someone and if we threatened the children to do it, she would be like 'shut up'.
"She would always say, 'I'm over 21,' and we laughed at her at the time and then you obviously take on board these messages and I did and I shaved a good eight or 12 years off with my daughter."
She added: "And then I thought, this is ridiculous and I got a grip of myself and I took her for a coffee and I thought she'd be howling with laughter and think mum you're funny - and her little face just dropped.
"What was a joke to me was actually stupid and I kind of thought, this is daft."
Kaye revealed she went as far as to fake her date of birth to keep it away from her daughter.
She previously told The Mirror: "It’s pathetic but I lopped off 10 years and merrily lied away, including a fake date of birth which I had off pat. I’m generally an honest person but I’ve always been a good liar and parents lie all the time to little children.
"At the time I did it without thinking – it’s just a stupid habit you get into and think it’s funny. But now when I look back, I think, 'Oh my God, you were sick.' By the time she got to around 12 I was beginning to feel uncomfortable. So I broke the truth to her in a coffee shop, which was a lot more traumatic than I thought it would be."
She added: "She had it in her head I was the same age as her friends’ parents and suddenly I wasn’t and that rocked her."
