Stacey Solomon has revealed she is planning on becoming a stay-at-home mother to her five children.
The Loose Women star, 34, she her aim is to virtually give up TV shows and only work on ventures that can be done at home.
Solomon told the Glad We Had This Chat podcast her eldest sons have now reached an important stage in their lives and she wants to spend more time with her youngest three
The presenter, who found fame as a contestant on The X Factor and I’m A Celebrity, has boys son Zachary, 16, Leighton, 12, from a previous relationship.
She and husband Joe Swash, 42, a former EastEnders actor, have son Rex, five, and daughters Rose, two, and a second Belle, 15 months.
Solomon said: “I definitely feel like I’m at a pivotal moment in my life where Zach is about to leave school and become an adult.
“I think I’m at a point in my life where I recognise that I’ve been really busy for his life, and his life is at a really important point, and my second son will get to that point before I know it.
“And then I've got these three babies. I don’t want to miss what I potentially feel like I missed with my older children.
“And I want to be there for my older children, who I think need me now more than ever. I've been battling with that in my head.”
She added: “Every year I have a team meeting with my agent and everyone on the team to say ‘What’s your plan, what’s your goals, blah, blah, blah’.
“And this year when they asked me my five-year goals, I was like ‘I want to be a stay at home mum’.
“That is like my dream, my ultimate dream. I just want to be with my kids.
“I mean it is conflicting, because I also want to fulfil my dreams and my goals and the things that I'm passionate about, because if I don't have that, will I feel unfulfilled?
“So what I'm trying to do at this point is make sure everything that I work on I can work on 90 per cent of the time at home. And then just do passion projects outside of the house, and then try and be around for them more.
“I love being a mum.
“I have to sing for my grandma once a year – she’s already booked me in. That’s about all I'm going to do with the singing career.
“And then TV’s also going to be a small circle - all provided I’m lucky enough to carry on doing it. One minute you've got two TV shows that want you and the next you've got none.”
“As I’ve got older, I’ve got less mum guilt because I actually think I’m phenomenal, I’m a phenomenal mum.”
