TV3 star Lucy Kennedy has admitted she feels “guilty” not being a stay at home mother.
And the Late Lunch Live presenter admitted she cried after dropping her daughter Holly into creche before her first show with Martin King.
“I found it very difficult and cried on my steering wheel in the car park leaving her – I would imagine that she missed me less than I missed her,” she said.
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“But she settled in, loved every single day and has never looked back. Thankfully for me and TV3, I’m the exact same.
“However, there are days when one of the children is sick or days when I’ll miss events when I know that I just can’t be there, or just days when they want to be with me and me with them.
“That’s hard. I feel guilty – guilty that I can’t physically be in two places at the same time, or guilty that I have to leave.
“I feel guilty that I don’t have more hands or more time in the day. I feel guilty when I know they’d rather I collected them some days, but I can’t.
“Like a lot of working mothers outside the home, I have a job that I can’t just leave, unless of course it was an emergency.”
But Lucy, 38 – who also has a son, Jack – admits there was also guilt when she wasn’t working as well.
“When I wasn’t working I felt guilty too. I felt guilty that I couldn’t afford to give them all the things that I wanted to,” she told the Herald.
“I felt guilty that they were missing other small people and interaction. I felt guilty when I got grumpy from exhaustion and broken sleep. Let’s face it, as mums, we just can’t win.”