Vanessa Lachey has "tons of fails" as a mother.
The 38-year-old television personality – who has Phoenix, two, Brooklyn, three, and Camden, six, with her husband Nick Lachey – is opening up about how she has many "failures" as a mom in the hope it’ll make other women realise it’s ok to make a mistake.
She told People magazine: "Failure is life, but it doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong … We all have fails daily and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean you’re a bad parent. We all are constantly struggling daily, but that’s also the beautiful side of parenthood …
"I have tons of fails. Probably daily fails that range from something as simple as missing the bus to school because I couldn’t get [the kids] together at the door, to forgetting something that they were supposed to bring for their project at school, to snapping at a knee-jerk reaction and saying something you regret … they range."
Vanessa previously admitted she felt "traumatised" after her son was diagnosed with Respiratory Syncytial Virus.
She wrote on Instagram: "When I gave birth to my youngest, Phoenix, at 30 weeks, I knew he would need extra care. But I wasn’t aware that he was at an increased risk for a common respiratory virus called #RSV due to his under-developed lungs and immature immune system. So when he was hospitalized for six days for severe RSV disease, I was shocked and terrified. I wish I had known more about RSV before this traumatic experience (sic)"
Vanessa Lachey’s mothering fails
