The Olympian opens up about her home life with husband Andy and children Summer and Albie
The mum-of-two, who shares two-year-old son Albie with her husband Andy Parsons, and her daughter Summer, seven, with her ex-husband Harry Needs, has just made a huge decision., Scarlet Hall, but almost two years on, they still haven't had a proper honeymoon… until now that is.
In our interview below, the star mum opens up about recovering from her difficult year, her family life with Andy and their children, how they feel about trying for another baby, and her struggle with bladder weakness post-pregnancy…Hello, Rebecca! We all know you from your incredible swimming achievements. How do you feel looking back on them?
"Summer is really good and she has lessons each week, but she has said to me a few times, 'Mummy I don't want to do swimming like you did', and I'm like, 'That's fine', as long as she can swim, that's all that matters.""Yeah. I go round to different schools, do talks and show them my medals. Her school asked me to go in.
"Everything's just had to evolve because now she's got older, she understands a lot more. Her dad doesn't live locally any more, so he's moved and it's one of those [things] where it just works. We communicate well. Summer looks forward to seeing her dad. She's going on holiday with him in the summer, which will be so good for her.
"We went for our 12-week scan and I felt so sorry for the woman. Straight away we knew something was wrong. Andy was ridiculously sad, as he should be, but everyone just kept asking him, 'How's Becky' – and I do get it from an illness perspective, why people were asking if I was ok – but Andy was really upset.
"I've got polycystic ovaries so we really struggled to conceive anyway. It's not easy. All of my friends have had difficulty with either getting pregnant, birth or something's happened in some capacity. I just don't want to get my hopes up because I think if we did have another, even if we got pregnant, I would be really nervous with the pregnancy."I feel responsibility. I've said to Andy, it's my body; it's hard for the woman because you have to protect it. I feel like I've let him down, which I know I haven't but when it's your body you can't help feeling that.
"I wasn't very maternal and everyone thought I was going to be the bad cop because I am very direct – they thought I'd be the tough parent – then she was born and it completely changed who I was. I became a right softie. I'm always good cop. Everyone always tells me off if I'm too soft with the kids. That maternal side came out.
"With Summer, I used all of those stretch mark creams and they did start to fade and ease, but with Albie, they aren't going anywhere. They are for life! They are deep, they're not going anywhere, those scars and stretch marks.""There's an NHS app [Kegel exercises] and I did all of that, and after about nine or ten months [after having Summer] I was back in the gym. Don't get me wrong, it was different.
"We'd go in and rock him to sleep for two or three hours, but speaking to the sleep specialist, that wasn't always the right thing to do. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you shouldn't hug your child, but we were probably enabling it more and more. We never let him go to sleep by himself; we were doing it for him every time, so they said we needed to step away a little bit.
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