ON the surface, Millie Mackintosh has the perfect life, but the former Made In Chelsea star was teetering on the brink of a breakdown at the start of this year. The reality TV personality-turned-fashion designer , who has two young daughters, hit rock bottom as the stress of being a working mum took its toll. “It felt like a bit of a breakdown moment where I just wasn’t coping,” the 35-year-old says.
“I was really over-tired. “I was taking on a lot. “I had a lot of stress, I wasn’t managing the stress very well and my body was giving me these signs that, ‘hey, you need to slow down’.
” READ MORE ON PARENTING In July, Millie bravely admitted she was back on anti- anxiety medication after she was left in “daily tears and feeling unsafe in my own body”. And now she has revealed just how low she sank, as she struggled to cope with the demands of parenting and a busy career. She says: “I was having quite a lot of panic attacks and my nervous system was actually in crisis.
“I had to take a bit of time off.” Most read in Fabulous Millie, who has daughters Sienna, four, and Aurelia, two, with husband Hugo Taylor , 38, is not alone. Signs of burnout According to research, 81 per cent of British women have experienced parental burnout after having children and 74 per cent of working mums say they bear the emotional weight of family life, compared to just 48 per cent of dads.
In addition to her frequent podcast appearances, Millie has been writing a book, Ba.