Sleep deprivation comes with the territory as a new parent, but when Peter Andre joins us for a Zoom chat, he looks admirably fresh.The only clues that he’s been up at the crack of dawn are the coffee he’s gulping down and the intermittent background cries and gurgles from his 11-week-old daughter Arabella Rose.
And he says he and his wife of nine years, Emily MacDonagh, 34, are both managing pretty well. “She is beautiful and such a blessing,” he says. “But I don’t think anything ever prepares you for this lack of sleep.
You’re tired, and night and day seem like one.” He’s keen to stress that his age hasn’t been a factor though. “It might sound mad, but even though I’m tired, I still feel like I’m in my thirties,” he says. “And this is baby number five for me, so I’m a dab hand at it now.” After his last child was born in 2016 – Theo, now seven, who joined Amelia, 10, and older siblings Junior, 19, and Princess, 16 (whose mum is Katie Price ) – Peter was insistent he wouldn’t be having any more.
But when put on the spot about the subject, he admits he can’t completely close that door. “But I’m about 90% that this is it,” he adds.
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