She grew up as a mixed race child with a stammer in an all-white family. ROCHELLE HUMES tells SARAH RAINEY how struggles that used to embarrass her made her stronger By Sarah Rainey Published: 07:06 EDT, 23 May 2024 | Updated: 07:27 EDT, 23 May 2024 e-mail 2 View comments Out of nowhere, when she was five years old, Rochelle Humes developed a stammer. She woke up one morning and the words just wouldn’t come out.
‘Weirdly, I had the chicken pox and something in the virus affected my speech,’ she says. ‘My mum didn’t know what it was or where it had come from. But it hugely affected my confidence – I became that child hiding behind my mum’s leg.
‘I needed safety blankets with everything. Socially, I struggled. I had the same best friend at school and I wasn’t confident outside of that.
‘The more nervous I got, the more it increased.’ Former pop star and TV host Rochelle Humes, 35, is the embodiment of sunny self-confidence - despite her struggles with a stammer as a five-year-old Growing up in East London without her father, Rochelle remembers how her vocal issues 'hugely affected my confidence' and that she 'became that child hiding behind my mum's leg' But you wouldn’t know it today. Rochelle, now 35, positively beams sunny self-confidence – a disposition that has seen her transition from pop star with girl group The Saturdays to presenter, becoming a familiar face to millions as a regular stand-in host on ITV’s This Morning.
In fact, she explains,.
