Amy Childs suffered with depression after becoming a single mum.
The former ‘Only Way Is Essex’ star has opened up about her past 12 months, admitting she "lost" herself last year and lost her own confidence.
She said: "The truth is I lost myself last year. I put on baby weight, I massively lost my confidence and I just felt really s**t in myself. I had split up from Ritchie and I was a single mum of two kids under two. I was depressed and didn’t want to do anything. It wasn’t post natal depression or anything I just completely lost myself. I love my kids to bits and I am so lucky to have them but I just wasn’t myself anymore. In the end friends and family had to sit me down and do an intervention. They sat me down and said I wasn’t having fun any more. I am a fun person but I didn’t want to do anything."
The 29-year-old television personality has signed up for ‘Celebs Go Dating’ in the hope to find love again.
She added: "I signed up for ‘Celebs Go Dating’ because I wanted to have fun again. I was worried people would judge me going on the show after recently coming out of a relationship eight months earlier. Especially when I have two kids under two. But at the end of the day I just wanted to come on and have fun. It’s a great show and I thought why not?"
And Amy admits her dating history is "shocking".
She told The Sun Online: "My dating history is shocking. My dad always jokes I should go to the job centre to find myself a man because the guys I usually date are unemployed. In the past a lot of guys have wanted to sponge off me and I have always allowed that and more fool. It is sad because I’ve let guys use me in the past and be with me because of my name. It is embarrassing really. Polly’s dad is in prison. He has gone down that path and obviously you would never want that for your kids. I have learned I jump into relationships too quickly. I had Polly really quickly and then got into another relationship and had another baby quickly. I don’t regret having my kids, of course I don’t, they are my world, but I do regret jumping into the relationships."
Amy Childs opens up about depression battle
