ONE of Loose Women's favorite panellists has sparked rumors she is about to quit the show for good so she can become a full-time mother.
Stacey Salomon34, made the confession during a heartfelt conversation about how she manages to combine her hectic workload with her five children.
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The busy mum, who also presents two primetime home renovation programmes, admitted she wants to quit TV for good.
Stacey has decided she would rather stay home so she can care for her youngest children; Rex, five, Rose, two, and Belle, 15 months.
Stacey told in her beauty entrepreneur Caroline Hirons Glad we had this chat podcast: “Every year I have a team meeting with my agent and everyone on the team to say, 'What's your plan? What's your goal?'
“And when they asked me my five-year goal this year, I thought, I want to be a stay-at-home mom. That's my dream, it's my ultimate dream.
“I just want to be with my kids.”
Stacey said she made the decision to step back after realizing her eldest son Zachary, 16, is on the cusp of adulthood.
Her second oldest, Leighton, is already twelve and in high school.
Stacey admitted to Caroline that she feels like she 'missed' her eldest sons' childhood.
“I definitely feel like I'm at a pivotal time in my life where Zachary is about to leave school and become an adult,” Stacey said.
“I think I'm at a point in my life where I realize I've been very busy in his life. And his life is at a very important point.
“My second son will reach that point before I know it. And then I have these three babies.
“I don't want to feel like I've missed what I may have missed with my older children and I want to be there for my older children, who I think need me now more than ever. I've been fighting with that in my head. “
Stacey first joined the Loose women panel in 2016 and she became a firm favorite among viewers.
But since then, she has welcomed her youngest three children with husband Joe Swash and her workload has increased tenfold.
Among her ventures, Stacey has a clothing line with a major street giant Primark and she is the host Sort your life on the BBCand Renovation Rescue Channel 4.
As a result, she has not appeared as a regular panellist on Loose Women for 18 months, apart from various guest slots.
Only this month, Stacey's co-star Linda Robson said Stacey was “too busy” to return to the show full time.
“I'd like her to come back, she's a very good Loose Woman – she's very honest. But I think she has too much,” Linda told The Sun.
Stacey admitted to Caroline that she might one day regret taking a step back, as she also believes it is important for her children to see her achieving her own dreams.
She said: “It's contradictory because I want to achieve my dreams and goals and the things I'm passionate about. If I don't have that, will I feel unfulfilled?
“What I'm trying to do right now is make sure that whatever I'm working on, I can work from home 90 percent of the time. And then just do passion projects outside the home and try to be there for them more.”
Stacey added: “I just love it. I love being a mother.”
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