Stacey Solomon has revealed her ‘ultimate goal’ is to become a stay-at-home mum and take a step back from her hugely successful TV career. After appearing on The X Factor in 2009, Stacey went on to win I’m a Celebrity..
. Get Me Out of Here! the following year. In 2016 she began appearing as a panellist on Loose Women and has since gone on to present Sort Your Life Out and Bake Off: The Professionals, while also being one of the stars of Celebrity Gogglebox .
However, the 34-year-old has now said she’s planning on spending more time at home with her family. Stacey is mother to eldest son Zachary, 16, from her relationship with former boyfriend Dean Cox, a second son Leighton, 12, fathered by her ex-fiancé Aaron Barnham, and Rex, five, daughter Rose, two, and Belle, 15 months, with her now husband, former EastEnders actor Joe Swash. She’s now said she wants to try and take on work she can mostly do from home apart from the occasional ‘passion project’.
With her eldest son about to leave school and become an adult, Stacey said she felt like she was at a ‘pivotal’ moment in her life, and she didn’t want to ‘miss what I potentially feel like I missed with my older children’ with her younger ones. Speaking on the Glad We Had This Chat podcast, Stacey said she wanted to have more time to spend with all of her kids, which was leading her to reconsider her work commitments. ‘Each year I have a team meeting with my agent and everyone on the team to say, “W.
