Sunday People

CHILDS STAY Amy: I’m in bed at 7pm with baby rather than partying

- Vikki White

THE original party girl from The Only Way Is Essex has a new passion – her baby.

Bubbly Amy Childs, 27, used to love wearing sexy outfits for wild nights out in Essex’s most glamorous clubs – but is now tucked up by 7pm with her adorable six-month-old girl Polly.

And the hard-working businesswo­man is such a natural mother that she won 3D-lipo Celebrity Mum of the Year ahead of Cheryl Tweedy, Coleen Rooney and the Duchess of Cambridge.

She has the added pressure of raising Polly alone after she split from the baby’s jailbird dad Bradley Wright.

Amy broke up with the builder six weeks after Polly was born. They had met in an Essex pub but their relationsh­ip first hit the rocks when Bradley was jailed for handling stolen goods in 2015, serving five months.

Now single, Amy has put dating on hold and is enjoying motherhood. She said: “I love, love being a mum. It’s so rewarding, it’s so lovely seeing Polly go through different stages.

“On a Sunday I love going out for a roast dinner and then a walk, before heading home and getting in bed by 7pm. I love getting our ur pyjamas on and wrapping ing up together.”

Amy, a beautician in the first two series of Towie, e, said: “I don’t want to date. I’m ’m not ready and I haven’t the time.”

Worth an estimated d £5million, Amy admits juggling gling her thriving boutique, salon alon and clothing business with parenthood is tough. Although Bradley radley does have contact with his daughter.

She said: “I work full time and Polly is a full-time job but you’ve just got to get on with it.” Polly olly sleeps eight hours a night and does es not really cry but Amy knows all that at could change when she hits the terrible ble twos.

One thing Amy has not escaped is the internet abuse that all celebs seem to suffer.

She was blasted for weaning Poppy off milk to pureed food at four months. Amy said: “We call them the ‘Mum Police’, they’re just on it the whole time, they’re trolls.”

She believes all new mums should stick together and spend as much time as possible with their babies. Amy does plenty of activities with Poppy but one thing she hopes her girl will avoid is going down t he “celeb route” as it is a bit of an “eye opener”.

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