Sheree Murphy says the transition to baby #3 is ‘a lot easier’

Don’t look to Sheree Murphy to hand her kids off to a nanny anytime soon.  Although she recently hired a maternity nurse to help out with new baby Matilda, 9-weeks, the former star of the UK series Emmerdale says she has no regrets about stepping away from the small screen in order to be a full-time mom.

That’s why I left; I wanted to be with my kids. I loved Emmerdale but it’s either one or the other at the moment. Once my kids are old enough I’d love to go back to work and do something like a soap.

Sheree revealed that Matilda is an easy baby, and that she found adding a third child to the family — which includes son Taylor, 6, and daughter Ruby, 4, with Australian footballer husband Harry Kewell — to be "a lot easier" because she’s "much more relaxed about everything."  The 32-year-old says that despite their relative wealth, she and Harry try hard to instill in their children the importance of working hard for what you want.

Me and Harry both come from working-class backgrounds and our parents taught us the value of money. It doesn’t matter if you’ve got money, we still want to be the same with our kids as our parents were with us. They only get a little bit of pocket money if they get their spellings right or tidy their rooms, I’m quite strict like that.  Every parent worries about drugs. I’d be devastated if my children started hanging around in the wrong crowd. Hopefully I’ll bring them up right so they won’t do anything like that.

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Sheree also said people might be surprised by the quiet, laid-back lives she and Harry lead in private.  Although some footballers and their wives are often photographed out and about looking perfectly coiffed and styled, not so for Sheree and Harry. 

People think our lives are way more glam than they actually are. It’s only now and again that we get to dress up and go out. I wouldn’t say I was any more glamorous than some of the mums at my kids’ school. Especially with a new baby, it’s not glam at all. I’ll be out and I’ll think, ‘Oh, I’ve got sick on my shoulder.’ It’s so embarrassing, you look like a tramp. But that’s just being a mum.

She added,

I don’t fancy being the next Posh and Becks — it would be too much pressure to look good all the time for one thing.  I can’t wait until the kids are old enough to just jump out of the car when I take them to school, so I can do the school run in my pajamas.

Source:  Sunday Mirror; Photo by Splash News