Good Morning Britain (GMB) host Ranvir Singh has opened up about the challenge of embracing a significant life change during her pregnancy.
Speaking candidly on Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time podcast, the TV presenter discussed the end of her relationship occurring just before her son’s birth in 2012.
For the first time, the 47-year-old shared with listeners: “I’ve actually been a single mum since I was seven months pregnant and I’ve kept that so quiet, but I’m okay to talk about it now.”
She reflected on how public perception affects her: “It’s funny because when people say ‘oh does it bother you when things are written (about you)’ but now I’m at a point in my life where I think that I’m learning to embrace my whole life and not compartmentalise it as much, to keep everything separate.”
Ranvir also talked about her experience of starting on ITV’s morning show while expecting, saying: “It was quite interesting because I’d never done breakfast TV before either, and so, it was this sort of strange convergence of two massive things that people might do at separate times.”, reports the Express.
She gave an insight into juggling new motherhood and a demanding career: “You know, you might go and work on breakfast television and deal with the shifts or you might have a baby and be knackered for two years.”
She concluded with a lighthearted take on her exhaustion: “But in a weird way I was like ‘how tired can one person be? ‘ like, whatever I choose here I’m going to be absolutely shot through.”
It was just two months prior that the GMB presenter divulged another intimate detail of her life, explaining her desire to take her 12-year-old son on numerous lavish holidays.
On Holly Rubenstein’s Travel Diaries podcast, she shared: “I always think that I want to be able to give him the opportunity to see as much of the world and do as many things with me, so that if something were to happen to me, he’d always have those firsts.”
Additionally, earlier in the podcast, she expressed that her drive to expose her son to “as much of the world” as possible is rooted in her awareness of her mortality, which heightened after her father died at the age of 42.