Myleene Klass thought she would be alone forever as she spills on dating as a single mum
The 42-year-old said being a single mum with kids is “terrifying” as she recalled life before meeting boyfriend Simon Motson
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Myleene Klass has opened up about her experience of dating as a single mum – saying that she thought she’d be a single mum “forever”.
The 42-year-old said being a single mum with kids is “terrifying” as she recalled life before meeting boyfriend Simon Motson, 46.
The pianist shares son Apollo with her PR executive boyfriend of four years and the pair have two children each from previous relationships.
Speaking to Sophie Ellis-Bextor on her podcast Spinning Plates, Myleene dished on her relationship with Simon after admitting she thought she would be alone forever.
Myleene’s ex-husband Graham threw in the towel on their six-month marriage on her 34th birthday.
The pair’s kids were just three and one when her former bodyguard called it quits on their relationship.
Chatting about dating as a single mum, Myleene described the experience as “terrifying”.
She even said she wouldn’t let Simon in the house until she knew his history.
She explained: “Everyone says, ‘Dating when you’ve got children must be fun’, and it’s terrifying. It’s absolutely terrifying. You’ve got a crepey belly now and keep looking at your phone on the date in case there’s something wrong with the kids.”
She continued: “There’s nothing hot and sexy about dating when you’re a mum. Everyone says, ‘You must feel like you again, it’s your time’. As a mum, you never feel like you as you’ve got dependence. The novelty [of dating] wore off very quickly.
“The first thing I checked when I met him, I don’t want to be with someone who had left their family. As soon as I found out he had a family, I refused to meet him until someone could give me a backstory.
“I wouldn’t meet him, so he rang me and that was our conversation. I wanted to know that he hadn’t had an affair. He had actually been on the receiving end of an affair. I thought, ‘that’s nice, I will meet you’.”
She added: “I wouldn’t let anyone into this house that would have the potential to do this to the family. If you can have an affair and walk out on your family, you can’t come into this house.”
Myleene has been dating Simon for more than four years now, with their relationship going from strength to strength.
“When I met Sim, the things I were looking for had changed. You’re not looking for someone just for you anymore. I then had to think, is he going to fit in with my children, is he going to love my children?”
She added: “That’s a massive ask for anybody, I had to do it in reverse. Being asked to love complete strangers in the way you love your children. You’d die for your own children!
“Everything changes how you look at it, when I was in a pop band, it was fun and you don’t worry about these things.”
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