Emma: Work as a midwife is best thing I’ve done
Emma and tot THE Voice presenter Emma Willis would happily switch from her TV career to a job that really delivers.
The host worked alongside midwives for 12 weeks for a new TV series, Emma Willis: Delivering Babies.
She said: “Honestly, it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. I love it. If it all went t**s up, I’d happily just do this instead.”
Mum-of-three Emma, 42, assisted midwives during their gruelling 13-hour shifts to bring babies into the world.
The presenter’s parents worked in Birmingham’s Good Hope Hospital and she believed she would end up working with “blood and guts”. Her mum Cathy was a hospital theatre assistant and dad Steve delivered the post.
Emma said: “I grew up in an environment where you did jobs like that. And then I found myself being a model, which was a bit weird.”
Emma did shifts at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, in Harlow, Essex, for the upcoming series on UKTV’S W Channel.
She has a son aged six and daughters of nine and two with Busted bassist husband Matt Willis, 35.
Emma said she had copied her mum by having a third child at 40. She said: “I’d got my body back to normal for the first time in years but then I thought it’s now or never. I didn’t want to look back and regret it.”
The full interview is in August’s Red magazine, on sale July 3.