Molly-Mae Hague has shared that she thought her life ‘was over’ after giving birth to her first baby in a candid update.
The former Love Island star, 27, welcomed her second baby this month, after three-year-old daughter Bambi’s birth in January 2023.
She shares both children with her partner, boxer Tommy Fury, with whom she won the reality show in 2019.
Molly-Mae kept her new son’s gender private throughout her pregnancy, only revealing it after the initial post announcing his birth.
Speculation was then feverish over what their newborn was called after the influencer teased everyone was going to ‘hate’ their choice; his dad then revealed his name to be the unusual moniker of Midas, wearing it emblazoned on his shorts for his fight with Eddie Hearn on Saturday night.
New mum Molly-Mae watched proudly on in the stands, wearing a stunning white dress from her own Maebe collection but confessing she had accessorised with ‘spanx, also a GIANT pad and a lot of prayers’.
This is more influencer Molly-Mae’s usual style, as someone very comfortable sharing the realities of postpartum life with her millions of followers on social media.
She’s already called the difference at this stage with Bambi and Midas ‘indescribable’, thanking her son ‘for healing so many of my newborn fears’.
‘The peace and happiness I feel this time around is something I wished for but didn’t know would come,’ she wrote on a previous Instagram post.
On Monday afternoon she opened up again on the struggles she’d faced as a first-time mum and how she knew now that there was ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ during any hard times.
‘The BEST part for me about doing this second time around is knowing wholeheartedly that every hard day, stage and chapter with your child is honestly just a phase,’ she wrote on her stories, captioning a pic of her gently cradling Midas as she held him against her chest.
‘No difficult day with your baby lasts forever and no tricky chapter stays the same. The comfort I’ve taken in that this time around has made me feel so different.’
Revealing how hard it was for her three years ago, she shared: ‘With Bambi I used to sit staring out of the window while breastfeeding thinking my life was over (as dramatic as it sounds).
‘I thought I’d never sleep again, never get a moment to myself and never really be able to cope. I couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel because I hadn’t reached it yet.’
However, she celebrated that ‘this time I know it’s there’ and that, alongside the challenging moments, things would pass by very quickly.
‘I’ll blink and I won’t have a tiny newborn anymore and if anything, that’s the part that makes me sad. The peace I’ve felt this second time round, simply from knowing it’s all going to be okay, has honestly changed everything.’
Molly-Mae then posted a picture of her baby supplies laid out on the bed, including nappies, wet wipes, muslins and spare babygrows.
‘Lining everything up for the nappy changes through the night knowing in a few months I won’t be doing this anymore… and this time that makes me sad,’ she reflected.
‘This time I really feel it when they say “You’ll sleep again, but they’ll never be this little again”.’