 No
more babies!
TV personality Carol Smillie talks to Jennifer
Burt about family life, motherhood and her exercise video.
She reveals she’s calling time on any more children now that she
has three kids under five years and talks about what prompted her to get fit...
Mum-of-three Carol Smillie is probably best known for two things: Changing
Rooms and being pregnant while on television!
Despite most women’s reluctance to even have photographs taken while pregnant,
Carol has been on screen virtually non-stop during two of her pregnancies.
And she’s had a very favourable response from people as a result: "Because I
have been pregnant several times on screen, I get lots of letters saying where did you get
that outfit? I think it’s good for people to see someone pregnant on screen and
people give me a lot of support.
"It’s good for them to know that people on the television are human and
normal. There’s a temptation to think TV stars lead a charmed life and don’t do
the things everyone else does but we can look rotten just like everyone else! The
difference is that I have people to help me out."
Carol balances work and family by looking for contracts that involve block recording
and filming as much as possible at one time, to give her more time with husband Alex and
children Christie, Robbie and Jodie.
"My older daughter goes to nursery – she starts school this year, actually. For
the others, I have a nanny and she is an ANGEL! My sister helps out if anyone is ill or if
the nanny wants time off.
"To be honest, I am here quite a lot, I never work weekends and I
try to keep time away to an absolute minimum. It’s busier, obviously, when we’re
doing Changing Rooms but I try to only be away one night a week.
"I try to block-record lots of stuff and cram in as much as I can, interviews and
pictures and everything all in one go. We kept the Scottish Changing Rooms weeks to
the end of my pregnancy, I worked up to 7.5 months pregnant and the fact that they were in
Scotland meant I felt able to do it.
"I don’t work very much in Scotland so when I get on that plane to come back
I take my makeup off and undergo a transformation from being Carol Smillie to being Mrs
Knight with the three kids."
How Carol planned her
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