ITV Dancing On Ice's Oti Mabuse admits motherhood 'exhaustion' as she opens up on 'trauma' of baby's arrival
23.02.2024 - 09:49
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Oti Mabuse has described motherhood as the most ‘exhausting’ experience of her life as she opened up about the 'trauma' of her daughter's arrival. The former Strictly Come Dancing star and her husband Marius Lepure announced their daughter's arrival on Christmas Day.
Taking to Instagram at the time with a photo of the new parents with their baby girl, the pair could be seen beaming with happiness in their matching festive pyjamas.
Oti has since explained that her daughter was born "prematurely" in October and was put in an incubator with jaundice. Oti recalled: "She was very premature, she came really, really early - unexpected premature which was a big, big shock," she told Giovanna Fletcher on her podcast, Happy Mum Happy Baby.
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Oti has now appeared on This Morning where she opened up about motherhood as well as Dancing on Ice which continues on Sunday (February 25). She sat alongside hosts Josie Gibson and Craig Doyle and explained how much her bundle of joy, whose name is yet to be revealed, has changed her life.
Oti said: "It's a new level of exhaustion that you learn to work with but it is the most amazing thing ever what you wake up to in the morning and you see your little baby's face. And you are just like wow, I absolutely love you. I love motherhood, I love how it feels, I love that just new feeling of what I need to become to be strong for you and the gratitude that I have to actually have a baby girl."
Discussing the difficult birth of her daughter, Oti, who developed sepsis meaning her daughter - who was born two months early - was at risk of being infected