Molly-Mae Hague has opened up about her postnatal experience following the birth of her second baby, a son named Midas.
Molly-Mae shared a deeply personal update on motherhood in her first YouTube video since welcoming son Midas Thomas.
The influencer said she now believes she may have experienced postnatal depression after daughter Bambi’s birth.
Molly-Mae Hague opens up in new video
Molly-Mae, 27, welcomed Midas earlier this month with fiance Tommy Fury, also 27. She told fans this postpartum period feels very different from the one she faced with Bambi.
She said: “I feel like a completely different version of myself this time round to who I was postpartum with Bambi. There’s no way to actually compare it.”
That honest line set the tone. Molly-Mae then looked back on the first months after Bambi’s birth and admitted how hard that period felt.
Molly got very candid about life as a “boy mum” (Credit: Stephen Crawshaw / SplashNews.com)
Molly-Mae’s postnatal confession
She said: “A lot of you will know that postpartum with Bambi I truly did struggle so much. I think looking back that I probably did have postpartum depression to some extent, definitely for the first three months to six months.”
Molly-Mae did not hold back. She added: “I honestly cannot remember a lot of that time with Bambi and feel like I’ve completely blurred it from my memory and tried to forget in a sad way. I was so out of my depth.
I felt like I didn’t have a clue what I was doing.”
She also explained why becoming a first-time mum hit her harder. She said: “This is totally my opinion, you cannot compare the mental effects of going from zero to one and then one to two children. And that’s just my opinion.”
Molly-Mae said part of her old life seemed to disappear after Bambi arrived. She said: “Going from zero to one was really, really challenging. My brain couldn’t comprehend that I’d just gone from being like the most selfish person with only myself to worry about for 23 years to suddenly my life, at the time, kind of felt like it had ended.”
She went on: “I was like mourning my old life and I was grieving this version of myself that I knew I was never, ever going to get back.”
The memory that still stays with her
Molly-Mae also recalled a “vivid memory” from Bambi’s newborn days. She remembered watching her sister Zoe leave after helping out, then return to her own life.
She said: “I used to sit on the sofa with Bambi and I would like watch Zoe leave the house.
‘The envy and the jealousy that I had of her being able to come and enjoy Bambi, but then she could go back to her old independent selfish life. And I was sat here with this newborn baby at 23 thinking my life was kind of over. That’s genuinely how like I remember that the first time around.’”
She said life feels easier now because she has already spent years adjusting to motherhood. That shift, she suggested, has changed everything.
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Molly-Mae’s postnatal update reveals a glimpse into her baby plans
Molly-Mae also revealed she is now “99.9 per cent sure” her family is complete. She said: “I just feel like I’m ready to stop at two. So, the fact that we were blessed with a boy and we have a son.
“We couldn’t be luckier and I couldn’t be happier.”
Elsewhere, she cleared up the story behind baby Midas’s name. Despite online speculation, Molly-Mae said the name did not come from the Greek king.
Instead, she said she and Tommy took inspiration from the 2011 robot boxing film Real Steel. She said: “We have named our son Midas. His middle name is Thomas and his surname is Fury.
“So he’s Midas Thomas Fury. We had this name for a boy for quite a few years.”
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