Spare us these stars who moan about being a mother

ALEX JONES is that increasingly rare breed of female TV presenter we truly warm to. Her evening appearances co-hosting BBC’s The One Show are as reassuring as a nice cuppa.

We’ve long welcomed her as friend in our living rooms each night at 7pm, so many of us were concerned when, in 2016, she embarked on a painfully honest TV documentary, Alex Jones: Fertility & Me. At the time she thought she would never have a baby — she was 39 and had married insurance broker Charlie Thomson.

‘Making this film has really opened my eyes to how difficult and heartbreaking a journey fertility can be,’ she said. ‘But with advice from some of the best in the business I hope it will give those who want to be parents some much-needed hope.’

And happily, by the time the film aired she was pregnant with her first child, and their longed-for son Teddy arrived in January 2017.

You might have imagined Alex would have settled into the joys of motherhood. Instead she hired a nanny and returned to work a surprising three months after Teddy’s birth. ‘It’s a hard thing when you’re hitting your career stride . . . to take time out,’ she explained.

Indeed, she can’t stop moaning about how tough it’s been struggling with a career and a newborn. So overwhelmed has Alex been that she’s found time to write a book called Winging It! which explains in ‘honest and raw’ detail how ‘being a new parent is really hard’.

She tells us how she missed the moment Teddy first crawled, that she is jealous of the nanny, that she and Charlie had their problems and she’s ‘not much fun’ any more. Oh, and that her breast milk leaked live on TV, which shattered her confidence.

All of which is just too much detail. So, please, Alex, stop wailing about motherhood. It’s not as if you’re struggling on a poorly paid nine-tofive job like so many mums who don’t make a fuss. If motherhood is so tough (and joyful!) why did you go back to work so quickly?

You’re on up to £450,000 a year and the gender- obsessed BBC would surely have bent over backwards to help with maternity arrangements. You could afford to choose but put your career and lifestyle first.

Which is fair enough. But bleating on about motherhood is tasteless and self-indulgent.

They should rename your book Whingeing It!