Nadine Coyle has "little time" for her relationship with Jason Bell.
The former Girls Aloud singer thinks she and her partner – who she briefly split from in 2010 – need to work harder on their union because their 10-month-old daughter Anaiya takes up all their time and interest, especially because Jason is living and working part time in New York, while she and their baby are based in Los Angeles.
She said: "I think because we spend so much time apart, with work and other things, it has affected us in that when we’re together it’s just 100 per cent about Anaiya. There’s really little time for a relationship anymore because all we do is talk about her.
"When we go out for dinner, if we’re not discussing her, we’re checking the phone to see if the person looking after Anaiya has called.
"We are completely focused on her right now. Maybe doing more of the relationship stuff can be our new year’s resolution, to make more time."
Though the couple were engaged when they split four years ago, Jason has never proposed again and Nadine – who revealed her daughter has her surname, rather than her partner’s – "can’t even think" about tying the knot at the moment.
She said: "I can’t even think about my own wedding at the moment. My younger sister Rachael is getting married next year. I got all the attention with Anaiya this year and now the family is completely focused on her wedding."
And if they do ever tie the knot, Nadine is hoping for a low-key affair.
She added to HELLO! magazine: "We do everything so big in my family so I think a more intimate one would be perfect, perhaps a location wedding.
"We’ll fly everyone out and have dinners and events planned for a whole weekend then it would be like, ‘Oh yeah, we got married by the way.’ Everyone would be having so much fun that it wouldn’t all be focused on the one event."
Nadine Coyle: I have ‘little time’ for relationship
