EXCLUSIVE: Made in Chelsea star Tiffany Watson opens up on how swapping Chelsea soirées for sleepless nights has brought a new kind of joy, balance, and perspective to her life
Life has changed dramatically for Tiffany Watson, 31, since her days navigating love triangles, lavish parties, and friendship fallouts on Made in Chelsea. The reality star is now a proud mum to two-year-old Jude and 10-week-old Heath, who she shares with her husband Cameron McGeehan.
Reflecting on her most memorable, and at times, most dramatic, moments from the show, Tiffany opens up about how swapping Chelsea soirées for sleepless nights has brought a new kind of joy, balance, and perspective to her life.
Tiffany joined the reality TV show alongside her iconic older sister Lucy Watson, 34, when she was just 20 years old and has admitted that the experience has played a huge role in shaping who she is today.
She said: “It probably shaped me a lot. I’m very grateful to have done the show and for the platform it’s given me. When I meet people, I think they expect me to say it was a really awful time in my life, but no. Obviously there were hard moments, but it was also really fun and a really cool experience.” It comes after David Beckham speaks ‘as a father’ in ‘family’ announcement after latest Brooklyn snub.
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When asked what her most memorable moments were, the mum-of-two recalled The Maldives trip where she had a huge friendship fallout with Stephanie Pratt, as well as a relationship spat with her ex-boyfriend, Sam Thompson.
Tiffany recalled: “It was very dramatic, also because of the journey home and the fact that I was just basically crying the whole way from The Maldives to England. So that was quite memorable in terms of being very traumatic”.
While the reality show wasn’t short on drama, Tiffany also had the time of her life and looks back fondly at some of their trips away. She said the series in the South of France was ‘really fun’, “I was so carefree, I was young, I was with my friends. It was an amazing summer”.
While Tiffany speaks highly of her time on reality TV as she notes: “Those days are very different from my days now.”
These days, Tiffany’s world revolves around her two young children and she’s learning to savour each stage. Speaking about the jump from one-to-two, Tiff says: “I think when I had Jude and he was a newborn, you don’t know what you’re doing and you’re trying to learn everything. I was totally unprepared,” she admits.
“This time around, I know what I’m doing and what to expect a lot more. So I feel like it’s easier in the sense that I’m not questioning everything, and I’m not trying to figure out everything, but I’m also like, God, I wish I’d appreciated that newborn stage of Jude more, like, I could have just sat on the sofa all day long and watched TV.”
Even with experience under her belt, Tiffany says there’s one part of motherhood she continues to wrestle with, which is mum guilt. She said: “I feel like I’m very hard on myself, and I always feel guilty for something, I can never just be like, ‘You’re doing great.’ I’m either feeling guilty that I’m not dividing my time well, or I feel guilty for doing something for myself. I wish I could be better at that.”
Tiffany is also open about her changing relationship with body image since becoming a mum. While she isn’t at her most confident, she knows it will come over time and isn’t putting pressure on herself to look a certain way.
She said: “I’m trying to be healthier with what I snack on and things like that. I think it’s hard, because before I got pregnant with Jude, I was at my skinniest. I’d just got married, and I was definitely at my smallest. Now I’m at my biggest, so it’s such a contrast. I know I’ll probably never get back to that, and I don’t think I actually want to, because looking back, I was very thin. But I know I will feel more confident over time. I’m not in a rush.”
Tiffany will also be making an appearance on the second series of Beyond Chelsea, the spin-off series catching up with familiar faces from the original show, including her sister Lucy Watson, and Made in Chelsea icons, Binki Felstead and Rosie Fortescue.
Despite welcoming her second child just as filming began, she still found time to get in front of the cameras. “I managed to do a fair bit of filming, which is really nice. I started filming basically just after Heath was born. I think he did his first bit of filming when he was, like, two weeks old.”
Comparing it to Made In Chelsea, Tiffany said: “It’s different in the sense that our lives have moved on. So it’s no going out and partying and stuff. It’s like renovations and babies”.
While a date hasn’t yet been announced, Tiffany will be back on our screens in Beyond Chelsea soon.
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