Made In Chelsea’s Millie Mackintosh Reveals She’s Cautious About Talking About Food In Front Of Her Daughters As She Talks About Her IBS And Anxiety

Millie Mackintosh revealed that she is cautious about discussing meals round her daughters as she opened up about her irritable bowel syndrome and nervousness.

The former Made In Chelsea star, 34, has not too long ago spoken out about her ‘struggles’ together with her 1.4 million Instagram followers after first struggling when she was a teen.

She admitted that she discovered it actually laborious to speak concerning the robust points at first as a result of she was “really embarrassed.”

Millie first developed IBS signs whereas touring in her late teenagers after noticing ache and bloating, which later “disrupted her life.”

She mentioned The mirror: “I should leave social situations and always complain about a stomach ache. Little did I know I had IBS and candida overgrowth in my gut, which resulted from taking back-to-back antibiotics for tonsillitis.

“I was diagnosed when I was 18. It had gotten to the point where it really disrupted my life. My mother took me to a specialist and we discovered that I was intolerant to gluten and dairy due to a weakened gut. When you were 18 it was hard to hear that you can’t eat gluten and dairy, and there weren’t the alternatives then that there are now.’

After keeping IBS symptoms to a minimum for most of her twenties, when Millie started a family with husband Hugo Taylor, 37, her pregnancy caused her a number of problems.

The reality star, who is mum to Sienna, three, and Aurelia, 20 months, said pregnancy made her “gassier” and that it was “inevitable with the hormones.”

Last summer time, Millie revealed she had begun remedy and low-dose treatment to assist ease the nervousness.

She added, “I was on medication for about six months. When I got off it, it felt like my anxiety was gone for a few months. I was like, “Great, I’m fine!” Then, extra not too long ago, it has come again. It’s laborious after you’ve had children.’

Since taking treatment, Millie has prevented meals that don’t go well with her, caffeine and alcohol that she felt “really helped.”

Having at all times been aware of what meals she eats, the TV character revealed that she is “very conscious of how she talks about food” in entrance of her daughters.

She mentioned she spoke to her husband Hugo “early” and defined that there ought to be “no disgrace and no good or bad food” of their residence.

Millie has additionally proven daughter Sienna the right way to maintain her physique whereas sitting and watching her do her 10 minute morning meditation.

The MIC star added that bodily exercise actually helped her mentally as she described her wholesome way of life within the publication.