In her own words, Christine McGuinness shares her thoughts about life with her six-year-old twins Leo and Penelope, and Felicity, three… Some people might see having three children all with autism as unlucky, but I think it’s a blessing because I don’t know any different.
I always longed to be a mummy, and even as a teenager I looked at boyfriends I was dating and wondered whether they’d make good dads.
I didn’t have a father growing up, I was raised by a single mum, so I always craved that family unit. I was 19 when I met Paddy, then a comedian who hadn’t done much TV.
We laughed a lot and got on so well. Fourteen years older than me, I thought his partying days were behind him, and decided he was perfect.
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