‘Time for some Saturday morning rabbit surgery’: Holly Willoughby helps sew up son Chester’s stuffed toy by reattaching its arms in doting snap
She has been enjoying spending some quality time with her family during the coronavirus lockdown.
And Holly Willoughby spent her Saturday morning helping to sew up her five-year-old son Chester’s stuffed toy rabbit, to help alleviate its wear and tear.
The This Morning presenter, 39, shared a snap to Instagram of the toy in question as she took a needle and thread to its arm so she could reattach it.
‘Time for some Saturday morning rabbit surgery’: Holly Willoughby helped sew up her son Chester’s stuffed toy by reattaching its arms in a doting snap she shared on Saturday
Sharing an amusing caption, Holly wrote: ‘Time for some more Saturday morning rabbit surgery… lost count of the times I’ve sewn these arms back on… Chester’s one true love.’
Holly shares three children – Harry, 11, Belle, nine, and Chester with her producer husband Dan Baldwin.
Earlier this week, Holly discussed experiencing working mum guilt as she explained that she never imagined juggling motherhood with a career when she dreamed of having a family.
Doting: Holly shares children Harry, 11, Belle, nine, and Chester with her producer husband Dan Baldwin, and shared her delight at once more sewing the toy for her son as it was his ‘true love’
In a candid new interview with Red Magazine, Holly said: ‘Becoming a mum was the only thing I knew I definitely wanted when I was growing up, but the image I had never involved me being a working mum and that’s been the biggest challenge.
‘I’ve been riddled with guilt about getting that part wrong. You love them so much and you don’t want to mess them up.’
Holly said her working schedule meant she had missed key days in her children’s lives, adding: ‘The truth is, I didn’t do the drop-off on Harry’s or Belle’s first day of school because I was working. I hate that I wasn’t there because those are memories you can’t get back.
Candid: Holly recently said she was ‘riddled with guilt’ about being a working mum and said she never imagined juggling motherhood with a career when she dreamed of having a family
‘But I’ve realised the only way that I can combat those feelings is to accept that sometimes I don’t get it right – and that’s fine.’
She also went on to say that she’s ‘lucky’ she’s able to greet her kids after school and be there on weekends.
Last year, Holly thanked This Morning bosses for ‘moving heaven and Earth’ to allow her take youngest child Chester to his first day, adding on Twitter that she was ‘full of emotions’.
Read the full Holly Willoughby interview in the July issue of Red, out now.
For more: Read the full Holly Willoughby interview in the July issue of Red, out now