Mama Still Got It: How to Make It Through the Calpol Years Without Losing Yourself

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I have learnt that you can’t parent and work at the same time – you’ll do half the job, so always focus on one job at the time. I play the drums, I have ACHOO syndrome which means I sneeze a lot when exposed to bright lights (I sneeze a lot at work with the studio lights! But then lockdown hit, Boyce’s husband lost his job, her modelling shoots were cancelled and she found herself at home, schooling her two sons and looking after her baby daughter.

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I wanted to share my comedic perspective on parenting, tell a compelling story, to let my readers know we are all in the same parenting boat and that none of us are alone.

Two burglars have been jailed after they raided an epileptic woman’s home while she lay fitting on the ground. Hopefully it’ll make you feel ‘normal’ on your parenting journey, and become a go-to read to ease the daily tensions we endure as parents and carers. Last year was a real struggle with child care and work commitments and I relied on other mothers/grandparents/husband to collect the kids which was stressful and the mum guilt seeped in. Louise became a social phenomenon during Covid when, in an effort to combat her own anxieties, she swapped trying to be the perfect model-mum influencer for creating relatable, funny content about the realities of parenting to combat her own anxieties and is now as much an everyday icon for her fashion and beauty tips as she is for her humour.

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Then when I’m with the kids at home on a work day I have a rule – to not look at my phone at all during the hours 3. She takes great pride in her healthy body, skin, and routines that served her fitness as a model before she became pregnant for the first time and realized how much of your body you sacrifice while gestating.

It’s great because I don’t have to go into a fashion studio to shoot, but can still have an income from home,” Boyce says. The blog helped to get her name out into the fashion world; she moved agencies and began working for brands such as Charlotte Tilbury, Max Factor and John Frieda, shooting in locations all over the world.

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I'm a mother of three, a fashion model and a believer that we must get better with age (otherwise what's the point? I wanted to make parents feel ‘normal’ in their journey, highlighting moments when we can all breathe a sigh of relief that it isn’t just us feeling a certain way. Thank you to Kristen for being a brilliant guest once again and to my husband Jesse and Kristen's partner David for being good sports (and for David's tech support! It’s a great release, it’s something I really look forward to and a great time capsule for years to come. Louise was previously a tax principal and director with one of the main accounting firms in Australia.Honestly I was bored and needed something to do, both for me and for other women out there who also felt like perhaps they had lost their identity after they became a mother. When she entered her home, she discovered her television and laptop had both been stolen along with her purse. I started to make funny videos last March to let other mums know that what they’re feeling is normal,” she says.