RTE star Maura Derrane has opened up about becoming a mother at 44 and admitted "I would have liked to have more kids." The Today show host, who shares lookalike ten-year-old son Cal with husband John Deasy, told how their beloved boy "rules the roost" at home. Maura, 53, said the pair have a close bond and her son even calls her by her first name.
The beloved presenter revealed: "He's amazing and he's the most important thing that’s ever happened to me in my life. He rules the roost and I'm his servant. "I am the most Irish mammy that has ever been born.
We're friends, I don’t know if that is good? He calls me Maura." Maura, who had Cal when she was 44, said she found the commentary around the age she fell pregnant at "hilarious". And she told the Irish Independent : "Even when I got married in my mid-30s, I was like, 'this is ridiculous, I’m far too young'.
" But Maura - who kicked off her TV career as a reporter on TV3 News - said that now, looking back she would have liked to have had more kids. She said: "It's now that I say I would like to have had more kids. At the time I didn’t, I just never felt ready then.
"But I can't imagine not having Cal, I think long term as a parent it's easier if you have more than one kid." The popular RTE star earlier this year revealed how she nearly died before giving birth to Cal. And she said they both survived only because she was in hospital when she suffered the massive bleed late in her pregnancy.
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