Camera ready, equal parts nervous and excited, Mollie King imagined a picture-perfect moment to treasure when she introduced her two-year-old daughter Annabella to her new baby sister.
However, it didn’t quite work out that way. “She came charging in, straight to Gran – literally didn’t even see the Moses basket with a newborn baby in it!” Mollie laughs. “Oh gosh, I had pictured it so differently in my head!” It’s a moment that sums up this joyful new phase in the Radio 1 presenter’s life – chaotic and not quite as she expected, but full of love, nonetheless.
In January, Mollie, 37, and her fiancé, retired England cricketer Stuart Broad, 38, welcomed their second daughter, Liliana.
Preparing Annabella for the new arrival was something Mollie took seriously. “I was really nervous,” she admits. “I didn’t want her to feel things were going to change too much, but she’s very inquisitive, like me.” With a little help from Annabella’s dolls and Peppa Pig to explain the change in family dynamics, Mollie and Stuart slowly introduced the idea of a new baby to their eldest. “She saw me naked one day and was like, ‘Oh wow, Mummy!’ That’s when I told her there was a baby in there.” The star is now backing a campaign from Haribo, following Mummy Pig’s viral pregnancy announcement in Peppa Pig, exploring attitudes towards introducing a new sibling.
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