Mollie King on Becoming a Mum While Losing Her Dad

Giovanna Fletcher· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mum. Today's guest, well, we go way back actually, we go decades back, uh, it is the amazing Mollie King. I know her from her days in the Saturdays when we used to go out for dinners and, uh, do a little bit of dancing together. There was lots of it. She has always been an absolute joy. There's just this positivity that just beams out of her. She's... You just feel like the world is a happier place with Mollie King in it, to be honest. And it's been, um, incredible over the last nine years to see her career going down a completely different path with Matt Edmundson. Um, so we dive into that a little bit in this chat as well. But obviously the biggest change for her, for her life has happened in the last few years with the arrival of her two little daughters, uh, Anabella and Liliana. I laugh a lot in this, in this chat. Mollie is so funny and we also get quite, um, quite emotional and, uh, reflective talking about, um, her dad. Um, so while Mollie was pregnant, you'll find out in this, in this chat, while Mollie was pregnant, her dad was diagnosed with a brain tumor. And I, um... That's so much to get your head around, like, we have such big chats on this podcast about, you know, the big shift, the big change that happens when you become a mum, and the messiness of that and the rawness of that. Add that to the rawness and the messiness of grief, um, that again comes in lots of different