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Christine McGuinness has revealed she is "trying to carve out" a career for her children following her split from Paddy.
The model, 35, says her main focus for this year will be her three kids as she adapts to being a single mum. She split from her husband Paddy McGuinness in 2022 after 11 years of marriage. The former couple continue to live together and co-parent their children, who have all been diagnosed with autism, however they have said Paddy is likely to move out soon.
Speaking to The Mirror, Christine has shared how she is raising seven-year-old Felicity and twins Leo and Penelope, 10. She said: "My main focus for 2024 is going to be on my children, they are always my main focus. Then work, work for myself and trying to carve out a career so that I can always look after my children and give them a future what they want and support them and their needs for as long as possible. That's that's really where I'm at right now."
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Christine and Paddy share three children, who are all autistic (Instagram)Christine admitted that she wants to be "more present" and that it is something she is working on. The former Real Housewives of Cheshire star said: "I want to try and be more present, which I'm very good at with my children. When I'm with the children, that's where I'm my most authentic self, and I'm just me. It's just me at home with the children. I'll put my phone away and I'm not on social media. I'm not even speaking to friends. I literally I will spend that time with my children as I'm really seeing now that they're only little for a short time."
She added: "They're growing up so fast. Anything outside of family life, I get distracted so easily and my focus isn't great. I'll start a task, and I won't finish it. That's something that I really need to work on. Just be more present in the moment and get things done." Christine, who has just launched her own products with B&M, ensures she looks after her children's wellbeing as they all take part in yoga and mindfulness.
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"I do want my children to be in touch with themselves, to understand the feelings, to talk to me if they're feeling sad to tell me when they're really, really happy," she shared. "So I think wellness for me as a mum, instilling that into my children quite young is is very important. I do feel like I've got it, I feel like they're really good, they're really open. We're really, really close and any mum, my children are my absolute world. I want them to be themselves and to be authentic and to understand how they feel."
The reality star was recently left "devastated" by the news Paddy is making a mockumentary on their romance. She is said to have been left "distraught" when she found out her heartbreak is set to become the "butt of jokes" after reading about it online.
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